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2012-01-27T04:21:00.000-06:00

Enter condoms, exit raunchy porn

2012-01-18T17:31:00.001-06:00

- As the reality of condom regulation looms for California's porn machine, it is very, very, very, VERY likely the bulk of porn studios will simply pull up stock and leave sunny, trashy L.A. for another section of the country where their reportedly $8 billion annual revenue will be "welcomed" if, albeit, morally condemned. It's no secret to the other forty-nine members of the Union, L.A. (and

Feliz Ano Nuevo

2012-01-08T17:33:00.004-06:00

- I live my life to be able to look any man in the eye and, if need be, tell him to go to Hell. What you think of me is none of my business. To quote Johnnie Walker, Keep walking.... New Years 2012 (Istanbul, Turkey)

Greek airport security (Athens)

2012-01-02T06:07:00.001-06:00

- I get the full-body pat down, including two-finger swipe around the inside of my waistband. And although the X-ray machines were being used they did not work either because my carry-on luggage had everything removed from it. Read more: Don't Go To Canuckistan; ó Rick Steves Blows: Racist Greek airport security (Athens)

So...the First Lady don't got back?

2011-12-23T04:19:00.000-06:00

- I missed this news item (I don't have television in Athens) about a GOP somebody sneering about the First Lady's ample posterior...which, apparently, is not so ample after all...? This rebuff comes courtesy of a website devoted to publishing photographs of Michelle Obama. So...Michelle don't got back? They say the proof is in the picture (or was that pudding?)

I don't argue with Scientology. I ignore it.

2011-12-04T11:23:00.000-06:00

- Scientology is so full of...itself. It wants to be academic (reachable) and inclusive while, at the same time, above it all (supernatural). And Scientologists are sure they can help me because they and their spaceship and yachts and compounds are the answer to the world's problems. Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do

Son of a field negro

2011-12-01T04:09:00.001-06:00

- Seen on a man's T-shirt in Paris last month: Son of a Field Negro... the struggle continues

My memoir is better than his

2011-11-15T11:49:00.010-06:00

- As this Penn State U. boy scandal unfolds, the dry turd is going to smell fresher and fresher. I just learned the title of Jerry Sandusky's memoir is, get this, "Touched" (2000). Damn, and I thought my book's title was self-explanatory! vs.

Bye-bye Berlusconi

2011-11-14T06:35:00.001-06:00

Don't Go To Canuckistan; ó Rick Steves Blows: - What a difference a year makes. Last year around this time I was in Rome - saw the Coliseum, Vatican City, the pyramid, Sistine Chapel!... (click title to read more)

From the fridge to the ditch

2011-10-25T05:25:00.000-05:00

- The old pimp colonel has finally been dumped in the ground Muslim fashion after being on display P.T. Barnum fashion - how rightfully undignified! - in a commercial meat locker for relieved and curious spectators; Guess you can he went from the fridge to the ditch (sorry, I does like rhyme and cadence). Qadhafi had it all -- and blazed out in a dramatic fall. It's been said so, so many times

Qadahfi: The rat bastard is dead

2011-10-20T17:32:00.001-05:00

- Oh so this is how you kill a rat dictator: click to see raw footage (graphic) In honor of his favorite color, the link is green!And, yeah, he really was a bastard...didn't have or even know his French father.

Failed multiculturalism in Germany

2011-10-08T17:11:00.000-05:00

- Germany's chancellor, the über Teutonic Angela Merkel, had some tough words to her nation: this whole intermingling diversity thing just ain't working.

Michael Stern Hart 1947 - 2011 (E-book pioneer)

2011-09-22T13:50:00.007-05:00

- Mr Hart is the man we have most to thank for electronic books, or e-books, as we now know them. Way, way back in 1971 (the "personal computer" didn't even exist because conventional wisdom cried, Who would want to take work home?) as a freshman at the University of Illinois he had access to the mainframe computer and, bored silly, typed the entire Declaration of Independence into the system.

Woman journalist questions male audiences preference for action heroes

2011-09-19T14:51:00.001-05:00

- This summer's unleash of comic book heroes on the big screens prompted Tribune newspapers writer Rebecca Keegan to pen "Flex time" in which she questioned the merit of so much cinematic muscular action on male audiences. Her cornerstone concern: Muscular summer actions have swaggered back into style [as opposed to the prima donna pretty boys, anti-heroes, and boyish action stars like Tobey

It could be worse

2011-09-07T14:51:00.000-05:00

- And, Lawd, don't I know it first hand! This is me working at optimism during peaceful, good times: It could be worse. I tell myself this now so as not to be broadsided by the sudden ill wind. Of course it can always be worse or better, but compared to what?! I use specifics. Although I'm without steady work it could be worse: I'm in a much, much, much better situation than General Qaddahfi.

Greendot prepaid cards = ANOTHER SCAM

2011-08-26T13:33:00.000-05:00

- Avoid the trap of buying one of these cards. Consumer complaints about them and PayPal are eerily similar: THEY TAKE YOUR MONEY and give you the runaround about sending out an investigation team.

The Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial (D.C.)

2011-08-23T12:09:00.000-05:00

- The new memorial sits on the Washington Mall between statues of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson and stands a huge 30 feet tall. "The sculpture depicts King with a stern expression, wearing a jacket and tie, his arms folded and clutching papers in his left hand. Lei said through his son that "you can see the hope" in King's face, but that his serious demeanor also indicates that "he's

It's raining points

2011-08-14T14:32:00.001-05:00

My beef with FedEx

2011-08-08T17:56:00.000-05:00

-Before leaving Mexico I shipped a parcel to a relative in the States. Using the online tracking system I saw the parcel arrived to FedEx office in Virginia where my relative lives. Next thing I know I'm receiving a text from my relative saying the package was back en route to Mexico! Turns out the lazy bums NEVER - never - tried to deliver the parcel to the house address but, instead, relied on

netSpend is a bogus, sneaky business

2011-07-28T16:28:00.000-05:00

- I went out and bought a netSpend debit card from a typical check cashing store in order to book a room at a nearby hotel whose policy it is to not sell to non-plastic customers. (Has this credit crisis taught Americans nothing?) It takes only 4.95 to get the card going and I started it with ten dollars. Afterwards I promptly called the company's activation number, entered a PIN and had the

"N-word" is for talking heads. I'm "Nigga"

2011-07-15T01:04:00.000-05:00

- It's taken me years to complete the manuscript and publish the doggone work but - whew! - now it is done! Holla! Begun nine years ago in Puerto Rico, outlined in Belize, illustrated in Mexico, completed in Indiana and California, and carried with me everywhere in between (I know how JK Rowling felt going through the airport with her manuscript), the book Autobiography of an American Nigger in

Osama Bin Laden DEAD??

2011-05-01T22:06:00.000-05:00

- That's the BREAKING NEWS headline I just read on Yahoo! News...although Yahoo! is not known for being very newsworthy (but I use it for email). So...the big, bad boogie man, Osama Bin Laden is dead? We'll see. And we'll see if our lives can go back to normal after this shit.

Demagogue Beck has FOX show pulled

2011-04-19T22:09:00.000-05:00

- Glenn Beck will have one less medium from which to spew his white man's-burden bullshit. FOX is pulling his show! To guote George Sand Success obtained by an unworthy appeal to the passions of an age is the easiest to achieve but the least honorable to aim for.

I'm Feeling Good. I LOVE MY LIFE

2011-03-09T13:10:00.000-06:00

The pimp dictator is fucked

2011-02-28T21:15:00.000-06:00

- Moammar Gaddafi is fucked. That's it. Period. But those bitches will kill ya if you gets too close to their Gaddafi. Booyah!