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Permanent Record

August 10, 2012 – 1:17 pm

My permanent record began with my name written in the birth certificate from Boston’s Lying-In Hospital. Vaccination dates were added in my childhood without my knowledge, however the nuns of Our Lady of the Foothills were fast to warn their students that any wrongdoings in the classroom were indelibly noted in our ‘permanent records’. I […]

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No More Cars

August 3, 2012 – 12:13 am

Gas prices in Thailand are running about 38 baht or $1.25 a liter. These prices are as expensive as the USA and sucking money out of people’s wallets faster than the cars can drive on the Asia Highway. There is no shortage of gas, but prices have been pushed up by oil speculators to reap […]

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Hot Hot Hot

June 30, 2012 – 4:22 am

. America east of the Rockies has been overwhelmed by a border to border heatwave in the triple digits. A massive storm knocked out power for over two million residents in the capitol and surrounding districts. There is no AC. There is no ice. It is hot and the weathermen are predicting more hot. Prominent […]

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God Save the Queen and Her Fascist Regime

June 3, 2012 – 10:35 am

A NOTE FROM HER ROYAL HIGHNESS QEII In light of your repeated failure to financially manage yourselves and also in recent years to elect incompetent Presidents of the USA therefore not be able to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up ‘revocation’ in the […]

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Fucked

November 9, 2011 – 6:41 am

My cousin and I had a long telephone call last evening. I was south of Charleroi. It was the ugliest town in europe. Oil Can was north of Boston. We were an ocean apart. I asked about his father, the judge. The ex-marine has been repatriated from the hospital. My uncle was back at home. […]

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