Bad Economy–Even the Hookers are Hurting
A year ago the world’s hookers were being pinched by their flush clientele. Now the same prostitutes are feeling the pinch. Life is a lot tougher out on the streets and in the bordellos of the world. The economic downturn is hurting the world’s oldest profession.
In Prague, long known for its post-communist bohemian scene and [...]
Lizzie Borden Killed Her Parents Here. Eat Hearty, But Don’t Feed the Ghosts
The house where Lizzie Borden may have killed her family is now a Bed and Breakfast lodge. This sturdy wood frame house in sturdy Fall River, Massachusetts hardly looks like a celebrated murder scene, but then so few really do. That is, until you look at them with the knowing eye. Otherwise would you know [...]
Federal Drug Sniffing Beagle Hangs Up Its Nose
Shiloh, the Beagle, has called it quits from public service. That’s right, after eight years on the job one of our finest federal officer has decided his day is done. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times he will no more wander about the Los Angeles International Airport’s Bradley Terminal in search of [...]
At Wal-Mart You Can Shop Till You Drop
By now most of the known world has read in the New York Daily News or elsewhere about the tragedy at a Long Island Wal-Mart, where an employer died after being trampled by a couple of hundred people. Apparently, he made the mistake of trying to hold them back and paid the price with his [...]
The Good Thief, Exit Ted Stevens
There is a great Bob Dylan line from his song, “Sweetheart Like You.” The line goes, “Steal a little, they throw you in jail. Steal a lot they make you king.”
Ted Stevens was a king in his own right. Alaskans adored him. He was a major earmarker who saw to it that his home state [...]