Category Archives: world

Welcome to Palestine

April 16, 2012 – 6:51 pm

An Israeli soldier has been suspended after video footage showed him hitting a foreign pro-Palestinian activist in the face with his gun during a bicycle rally in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military. This weekend at dinner in Montauk Richie Boy addressed my old lead about the one-state solution for Israel. “Israel […]

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Lizards of Satan

March 4, 2012 – 4:37 pm

Sadly Sara Palin never entered the GOP fray. Back in 2008 jokesters accused her of saying the following; “God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago as ultimately flawed creatures, lizards of Satan really, so when they died and became petroleum products we, made in his perfect image, could use them in our pickup trucks, snow machines, […]

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Tough Israeli Backpackers

February 17, 2012 – 2:29 pm

Israeli backpackers were the scourge of the Lonely Planet paths around the world. They argued with shopkeepers in Bali, crammed ten people into a room designed for two, chiseled prices for the cheapest bowl of rice, smoked hash with abandon, and denied any wrongdoing in Palestine. Other travelers avoided them in droves, but they were […]

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Crises of Capitalism / David Harvey, economist

February 4, 2012 – 12:15 pm
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The Glitter Of Gold

December 3, 2011 – 6:27 am

In the summer of 1993 Tall Meg and I drove from LA to New York in her 1966 Studebaker Lark. Tall Meg was in love with a man in New York and I was returning to no one. She was in a hurry, but had never made the cross-country trip, so we detoured from the […]

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