Blunt Wit

Reacting quickly to the news that Bob Barr, once firebrand Georgian Republican, is running for President as the Libertarian candidate, the GOP has taken drastic measures and contracted Karl Rove to put together an exploratory committee for a Barak Obama run for President. The GOP brain trust has begun to worry that the Barr [...]

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According to well placed Republican sources, Sasha and Malia,

the daughters of Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama have formed a nascent political group entitled “Swift Kids for Truth.” They are charging that the Presidential hopeful is unfit to serve as President based upon his alleged willful distortion of his conduct as father during their short [...]

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Sometimes I take small liberties with the truth in my blogs. Poetic license, so to speak, nothing egregious, just some embellishment around the edges. Some fictional imaginings to spice up my otherwise dull life. With this one, however, I’ve added no accouterments. It is the whole truth and nothing but [...]

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One lazy summer afternoon in my youth with nothing better to do we devised a wicked new game. Using a rickety ladder I climbed up on the roof and threw darts at a dartboard propped at an awkward angle against a tree down below. My two younger brothers sat under the eaves of [...]

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So for my last blog I offered up A terrible confession of an imaginary affliction in which I afflicted my poor mother with imaginary tuberculosis to escape the clutches of a smoke deranged serial killer.
The week prior to that fateful train trip we were nestled around a circular table of a ritzy hotel restaurant high [...]

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Today I must finally assuage my conscious and confess my inveterate moral turpitude as for years I’ve been harboring a deep, dark secret. In short, I’ve been a bad boy.

The wellspring of my guilt occurred in the yingwo, or hard sleeper section, of a 35 hour train trip from Beijing to Hong Kong some [...]

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I’ve come across several characters recently and had been struggling mightily to figure the impetus to write them up in a blog when my daughter came along and sparked my imagination. I’ve long since learned to take fickle inspiration whenever and wherever she strikes.
So I had dropped my daughter and her friend Jessica of [...]

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So if you have never heard of CL or Craigslist then you are probably not of this earth. I even heard whispered they are currently in the process of setting up a CL for the moon, although the only listings so far are a few used golf balls and a couple of old tattered [...]

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Myth of Iraqos
Double-ya was the son of a highly respected and talented Kennebunkportian artisian, Ay-chya.

He was known for his skill at drinking games, drug-laced tirades, malapropisms and evading military service. His father, Ay-chya, angered the good king Saddos and was eventually imprisoned with his son in the labyrinth of Iraqos. Wherein they wandered [...]

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So many years ago I was doing my best not learn Chinese while studying in Beijing. This was before China had opened up and become the economic juggernaut that it is today: pre Olympics. pre-Tiananmen, hell, it felt Pre-Cambian.
Anyway, as a student we had to wash our clothes on a washboard, there [...]

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