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Today at my table there was a doctor from India who claimed that he used to carry a million-dollar diamond around in his pocket until a friend of his, who did the same thing, got beat up and mugged in Detroit.

For me, I think, that practice would have ended a lot sooner, ( Read more... )

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When we meet Berenger, first scene of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, there’s very little to admire about him. He’s likable enough, compared with the anal-retentive Jean, but he is at best an amiable drunk (the American film version cast Gene Wilder as Berenger opposite Zero Mostel’s ( Read more... )

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A few weeks ago, a 13-year-old lectured me over Ventrilo because I was quoting John Prine’s “Illegal Smile”.  “Why would you listen to a song about marijuana?” he asked. Because it’s a good song. It’s fun. And it gives me a perverse joy to be far more anti-establishment ( Read more... )

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Because Kwame Kilpatrick!

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Kids as young as 10 were posing as predatory paedophiles on Bebo and MSN to frighten schoolmates they had fallen out with.

The rozzers started investigating what they thought was just another case of a local nonce trying to groom children by befriending them online and ( Read more... )

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The elevation of unity as the highest social value is a core tenet of fascism and all leftist ideologies. Mussolini adopted the socialist symbol of the fasces to convey that his movement valued unity over the liberal democratic fetish of of debate and discussion … We tend to ( Read more... )

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Priestess for a faith I do not share -
What powers do I have?

I am all that stands between men and their dreams -
What stood between me and mine?