Category: News

  • The Politics of Contraband (from Gangster Planet)

    The Politics of Contraband (from Gangster Planet)

    On June 17, 2019, a massive 20-ton cocaine bust went down at the port of Philadelphia aboard a container ship calling at the port.  Today is the one-year anniversary of that drug bust, the second largest in American history, and one of five covered in “Gangster Planet.” Agents from a multi-agency Federal task force swarmed…

  • AMERICAN GENERATION DELIVERS IN THE CLUTCH

    AMERICAN GENERATION DELIVERS IN THE CLUTCH

    One week ago, I watched fascism attempt to rear its ugly head, and I will never forget it. Tonight I am proud of this generation of Americans, who answered the call of destiny with determination and grit (grit! from millenials!) when that awful video of police homicide hit the airwaves two weeks ago. Because of…

  • A MODEST PROPOSAL

    A MODEST PROPOSAL

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson just promised to let three million people from Hong Kong eager to escape Chinese hegemony the chance to live in Great Britain. That’s when I had an idea! Mr. Trump and Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan have long been close, right? The Turkish strongman, for example, just signaled that his  country…

  • AFTER MASS SHOOTING AT PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, SAUDIS GET ANOTHER PASS

    AFTER MASS SHOOTING AT PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, SAUDIS GET ANOTHER PASS

    For all the talk of a “deep state,” the Trump Administration’s response to the Saudi terror attack at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola was remarkably similar to that of an Administration many thought of as the “Deep State on Steroids” of President George W. Bush. It’s a puzzlement. Silver spoon Deep Stater Bush, in…

  • Protected: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS HOUSE? (a chapter from Gangster Planet)

    Protected: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS HOUSE? (a chapter from Gangster Planet)

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  • The Democrats are in a trance

    The Democrats are in a trance

    The latest string of Democratic primaries had a lot in common with–of all things–an obscure 60-year old European art film called ‘Last year in Marienbad,’ that college film students have been getting stoned and going to see for several generations, describing it as being “heavy, man.” The film repeats the same series of events again…

  • Oh Well, Vote Fraud in Sarasota County, Again

    Oh Well, Vote Fraud in Sarasota County, Again

    Bernie Sanders is the closest thing America has to a classic tragic hero. Except for that one flaw… that one defect of nature… Bernie’s tragic flaw is that he’s an idealist, as well as something of a nerd. Don Quixote pushing his glasses up on his nose, waving a pen around instead of a sword.…

  • THOSE WEREN’T “GLITCHES.” AND THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT

    THOSE WEREN’T “GLITCHES.” AND THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT

    People were still standing in line waiting to vote at 1 AM in Houston, and at midnight in Santa Monica. Why is that? Is our government really that incompetent? The question has barely been mentioned in the mainstream media. But, at least on Twitter, voters appear to be catching on… The verdict delivered by Super Tuesday…

  • “Lying dog-faced pony soldier:” A new demographic in 2020 election?

    “Lying dog-faced pony soldier:” A new demographic in 2020 election?

    The world has Joe Biden to thank tonight for taking our minds off the political season so in evidence at the moment. Biden called a young woman questioner a “lying dog-faced pony soldier.” In jest, of course. Still, many wondered “What the hell was Joe Biden thinking, calling a young woman ‘dog-faced’?” In a relatively…