At some point in time, I started writing (or trying to write) as a way of doing something productive about my insomnia. I have had trouble sleeping regularly for the greater part of my life, so it would only make sense to attempt to reclaim some of those painfully-extracted hours… the product is about what [...]

Despite the rise of DNA fingerprinting and other “CSI”-style crime-fighting wizardry, more and more people in this country are getting away with murder. FBI figures reviewed by The Associated Press show that the homicide clearance rate, as detectives call it, dropped from 91 percent in 1963 – the first year records were kept in the [...]

There’s a sucker born every minute…

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There is no sense in the world but dollars and cents.

You will notice that there are some things – corruption, in particular – which will always be referred to as “isolated” in their incidence. This is for your protection. The powers that be have determined that you would take issue (and your head would explode) if you realized what kind of people were running the [...]