NEW VEGAS MOTTO

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS ... IS CAUGHT ON SURVEILLANCE TAPE.

JAMES BROWN: ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION

j. brown and i go way back. in 1961 i was living in harlem (yeah, that harlem..someday i will detail how that came to be) and went to a james brown concert at the apollo theater... me and ten thousand black people. it was a great fucking show! in the 70's i had an affair with one of brown's back-up singers. she did not have all that many good things to say of mr. brown, allotting he was extremely hard to get along with. here in vegas, brown, one time, was in his underwear standing on a street corner berating passers-by. but entertainers should be judged by their art...and in that arena, james brown had no equal. PLEASE-PLEASE-PLEASE!!!

IDIOT DEMOCRATS

after saying nice words about nancy pelosi i must now say that she is showing signs of vindictiveness and petty politics with the future of the country at stake. to lead the House Intelligence Committee she chose the rather obscure congressman, silvestre reyes of texas, (pandering to the latino vote?) over a very knowledgeable Jane Harmon (cat-fight?). the illustrious mr. reyes did not know that al-Qaida was Sunni and thought they were Shiite (actually he GUESSED they were Shiite-he just flat didn't know.) he also did not know who and what Hezbollah was. AND HE IS THE HEAD OF HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE!!!!. seems you ought to put someone in that position who is either a. intelligent b. informed or preferably c. both. the middle east is a cauldron of tribal and religious squabbles some of which are centuries old and we need people who are making policy to understand just what the ingredients are in these little mini-wars.

It's Night Time In Vegas, Baby

it gets cold in the desert
when the sun goes down
heat starts to rise
victims are found

hustlers and pimps
gamblers and whores
prowling the night
looking for scores

games go on
roll of the dice
coke in the nose
whiskey on ice

it's night time in vegas, baby

WHO WAS SEEN AT THE NATIVITY SCENE?

a "fundamentalist christian" is one who believes that the ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the king james VERSION of the bible is the EXACT word of God. (who, as everyone knows, is a white, english speaking, grey haired, man.) go by your local "christian" church and check out their nativity scene. bet they have the three wise men in it. THE WISE MEN WERE NOT THERE ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE. the wise men are only mentioned in matthew. and matthew says they come AFTER Jesus had been born and go to Herod inquiring of him where he thought the young child would have been born. herod sends them off the Bethleham. and in the king james VERSION (that is his "version" --but no one ever gets that) matthew 2-11 "AND WHEN THEY WERE COME INTO THE HOUSE"....now unless a manger is a house or a house is a manger .....Luke who also writes about the birth of Christ mentions no wise men at all. John and Mark say nothing at all about the birth of Jesus the Christ they pick the story later in His life. go point this out to the minister and watch him hem and haw.

DEMOCRACY

democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- james bovard (with thanks to yvonne carroll for sending this to me)