Author: gottlieb

Angst and Pouting in Las Vegas

Jordan Valley stands next to me at the crap game. She looks like a hooker but she’s really a porn star. Big difference. Sex for money, sure, but still a big difference. Hookers have no screen presence, Spitzer’s is a...

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Postcard from the Drug War

This is a true story. Almost. And, it’s almost fiction. But not. I should know. I was there. They were throwing the stuff off the back of the truck like sacks of flour, but the bags weren’t filled with flour, but...

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The Visitor

I put down the crack pipe and pick up the remote control. I turn off the TV. Was there ever a time when Wheel of Fortune wasn’t on the air? If fortune is a wheel then this particular spin of the wheel called “my...

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"V" is for Virtue

Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson The position of A.I.G. at the tippy-top of the pyramidal ponzi-scheme called “finance capitalism” is the same position as the Fairy Godmother in a...

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BREAKING!!! The.Sky.Is.Falling.

Congressional Republicans on Sunday predicted a doomsday scenario of crushing debt and eventual federal bankruptcy if President Barack Obama’s massive spending blueprint wins passage. Let’s see the “doomsday...

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