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  • From The Publishers
  • Summer 1970 - Fishing with Alligators
  • The Fire-Starters
  • Jimi Hendrix Was The Roy Buchanan of Rock & Roll & Other Rural American Stories
  • Real Genius
  • Guns, Faith and Murder
  • A Blue World
  • Nova Explains
  • Satan's Jr. High
  • The Million Dollar Store
  • The People Who care
  • Jesus and The Red Words
  • Sniffing Out White Supremacy
  • Artistic Con-cepts
  • “The Word From The Streets”
  • A Voice from the Crowd
  • How a White-man Became a Black-man In Order To Find His Whiteness—His Alright-ness.
  • Camille Bertault: 2 Views of a Secret
  • Judy Garland - "Soul Singer"
  • Robert & Jimi and the Twenty Seven Blues
  • The Last Vestiges of Mueller’s Collusion Case Just Died...and Nobody Noticed
  • The Great Pretenders
  • Imagine
  • Me and Junior Parker
  • The Republican
  • "Kill The Pigs!!!"
  • "Another of Trump's Henchmen Falls!!!"
  • Saving ISIS, Killing America
  • Cyrus The Great Strikes Again
  • The Big Lie - "Fear Russia Love China"
  • “The Russians are Coming!” (again)
  • "Impeach This!"
  • “Trump Backs Turkey Down”
  • Congressman Elijah Cummings Died last night at the age of 68.
  • Sweet Home Chicago (The Obama Shakedown)
  • Blind as a Bat
  • "I cannot Tell a Lie"
  • If Only Obama Was Still President, Syria Would Be Swell
  • Impeachment Fever
  • The Ballad of Hunter & Joe
  • "God Will Do It!"
  • Jeffrey Epstein & The Mysterious Case of The Infinite Pedophile Monkeys
  • The World is Insane: pt 4095 - “What is Less Than Zero?”
  • The Magic Bullet and The Lonely Death of Jeffrey Epstein
  • The Facts about Illegal Immigration
  • Chicago
  • Liz Warren Hits The Road
  • Traitors & Lies
  • “If The World Was Fair”
  • "The Few, The proud, The Insane: The Democrats"
  • "GOD & UNCLE SAM"
  • A Minor Complaint
  • Murder in The Meantime
  • The 22-yr-old Bottle Blonde
  • “Jerry “The Toad” & other Sesame Street Lessons”
  • "Riffing in Tongues"
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence Revisited
  • The Few The Brave The FBI
  • Jesus and Liz Warren Want to Forgive You
  • The Witch Hunt Ends? Not Even Close.
  • Divine Guidance
  • The Crocodile & The Politician
  • Uncle Joe Apologizes
  • Why I Hate, Hate Crimes
  • It's Only a Matter of Time
  • Let It Rain
  • Dumb & Dumber
  • ....of Poets & Scientists
  • Goodbye Pork-Fried Rat
  • Hearing Duane Eddy
  • Is It Alright...To Be White?
  • "Hell is Real!!!"
  • Mauled by Reality
  • The Cult of The Secret Unknowing Marxist
  • Resist the Devil and He Will Flea
  • The Unwitting Socialist
  • Personal Stories
  • The Magula Report 2019
  • "The New Blood & The New Deal"
  • “The Wall"....and other, mostly silly conversations.
  • The War for the Soul of Mankind: “Stan Getz vs Eric Dolphy”
  • The "Others"
  • White Cracker-Ass Niggas
  • New York Gives The Thumbs Up To Mass Genocide
  • Rudy & Nat
  • A Close Shave With The Well-Intended Bigot
  • This is What Happens When My Favorite Band “The Mellow Herb” Comes To Town
  • The Hemispherical Brain Activity of a Wayward Somnambulist
  • Gun "Race With The Devil"
  • “Half Of All Millennials Think Barack Obama is More Important Than George Washington!!??”
  • "The Dow Posts The Biggest One Day Gain In History."
  • Good Morning Comrades
  • Sharks, Zombies & God
  • A Road Home
  • You're Getting Sleepy....Very Sleepy
  • Stupid People
  • Jezebel and Ahab Make a Comeback
  • Stevie Ray Vaughn: Derivitive Hack or Genius
  • Music & Reminiscence
  • “The Giant Facebook Id-Monster Attacks”
  • “Bullshit...it’s a Damned Invasion!”
  • Bobby-Jack
  • Lowell George searching for authenticity
  • For The Love of Krazy Kat
  • How I Came To Understand That Fighting The Power Was Useless. Unless...You Fight The Power By Giving Power to The Power To Fight The Power
  • Within the Lifetime Of The Average American...The U.S. Population Could Realistically Exceed That of China & India
  • The Problem of Blasphemy In a Secular Society
  • The Waitress and The Power
  • A Message From The Democrats After The 2018 Midterms
  • On This Day Before Election Day, These 5 Things Should Be Remembered As You Vote
  • A Lie Is As Good As The Truth....as long as it's a good lie
  • "Evil Republicans Suppress The Minority Vote"
  • The Enemy of Mankind
  • The Mob
  • Why Chinese Tariffs?
  • A Caravan To Nowhere
  • Ant Farm
  • “They’re Coming For Your Social Security!”
  • The Witchfinder Speaketh
  • Eating Sawdust & Voting Democrat
  • Muslims Kill Washington Post Journalist”...and other stories best left untold
  • Orwell's Nightmare
  • The Sobbing Walrus
  • A Telling Lie
  • Tribal Marxism
  • A Pimp and His Stable of Political Whores
  • "Evidence?.... I Don't Need No Damned Evidence!"
  • A Post Modern Lynching
  • Talkin’ Blues: A White Social Justice Warrior Meets a Bluesman
  • Pocahontas Wants To Impeach President Trump
  • A Belated Tip of The Hat To John McCain's Funeral
  • "Colin Kaepernick Fights The Power. My Brothers!"
  • Jack Ryan: Promoting Jihad & The Brotherhood of Man
  • Rediscovering Willie "The Fruitbat" Johnson
  • The Allegation
  • Message in a Bottle
  • A Coven of Witches
  • The Communist & The Exalted Cyclops
  • America vs Satanic Goat Worshipers
  • Forcing Transgender Penis Cakes on America
  • The Iidots Lament
  • Irritating Post: no. 529
  • Irritating Post: no. 642
  • My Brain is a Liar
  • My New Rap "Alligators"
  • Helpful Hints in Logic
  • The Unredacted News
  • A Loss of Composure
  • The Myth of Objective Fact Checkers
  • Surviving Politics
  • The Pit or The Pendulum
  • Do Not Forsake Me. Not For a Dollar. Not For a Dime.
  • Repeller of The Amorites
  • Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child...but only sometimes
  • Welcome To The Freakshow
  • Part One: The Monster Is Summoned
  • A Sideways Glance at Reality....
  • The Ballad of Trey Gowdy
  • Lies, Spies, and Thighs at The FBI
  • The Ballad of Charlie Crockett
  • Children in Cages
  • A Poem For Clifford Odets
  • Anthony Bourdain
  • Like Billy Eckstein Singing to an Empty Club at 1:00 AM on a Saturday Night in 1975.
  • A Letter From The Democratic National Committee
  • Bent
  • "There Were No Spies in The FBI and Other Fictional Tales"
  • The New Rules For Radicals
  • Blood In The Water
  • "3000 American Businesses Colluded with Russia For Profit"
  • I Spy (For The FBI)
  • Free Shit—and Bears
  • Cute Dog Videos
  • How The Press Aided and Abetted Terrorists
  • The Iran Deal Myth
  • The Scouts
  • Pinko Muthafuckas
  • Kelly Joe Phelps
  • Johnny Winter and, 1970
  • Happy Days Are Here Again
  • RAGe Against The Machine
  • Carlos and Buddy
    • How The Bird & Darwin Took Flight With a A7#9 Chord
  • Just a Few Glaring Examples Of Media Scummery
  • They Call it Stormy Monday
  • "I Gotta Take A Wiz" or, "How Starbucks Destroyed the World"
  • Who Needs War?
  • Why The Devil Don't Come Around No More
  • 2+2 Really Does = 4
  • The Tangled Web
  • Shadow Banning
  • What Changed?
  • Oblivious But Concerned
  • "Give Up!"
  • Jesus: The Spirit of Man and God That Illuminates The Darkness
  • Mickey Baker: Goin' To Kansas City
  • "Washington Saves America from Pot-smoking Mass Murderers"
  • Nontraditional Thoughts
  • Attack of The Trillion Dollar Omnibus Bill
  • Hearing Junior Wells “On Tap'' one more Time
  • Just Words
  • Muddy and Me
  • Racist Debtaes About Terrorsim
  • Fidel's Utopia
  • Unwitting Hypocrisy is The Best Kind of Hypocrisy
  • Excess Baggage
  • Excess Baggage pt. 2
  • Fake News Is The New Real News
  • The Death of Billy Graham and Manufacturing Consent
  • American Youth: The Rise of The New Media
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Talk About Slavery and Shit
  • Just Smoke
  • Monkey in a Box
  • How The Children of Sal and Dean Destroyed The World
  • On This Cold Winter's Morn
  • The Crime of the Century
  • Evidence: What The Hell Is It?
  • They Were Pissed: America, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats
  • Negotiating The Maze Of Life and a Blues Shuffle.
  • Everyone Is Hitler (In their own Way)
  • The Mystery of The Giant Balloon Shark
  • Subterfuge and Its Discontents
  • God Debunks Global Warming
  • Day Two: God Continues To Debunk Global Warming
  • Strzoking Russia
  • The Al Franken Effect. Or, How to Destroy America and Lose Elections
  • The Big Maybe
  • The News Apocalypse
  • The Guitarticle (Guitar article)
  • The Nation of Lucifer
  • Slurring Pocahontas
  • Why Everything Good Said About Net Neutrality is a Lie
  • .....and behold, The Cause of Your Demise Is Upon You
  • The Trans-boy That Cried Wolf
  • Believe Nothing
  • Donald Trump Blasts The Heads Off Of Tiny Woodland Creatures
  • The Problem of Hypocrites
  • Roy Moore: Serial Pervert
  • I'm So Frustrated
  • The Devil's Whisper
  • Science Can't Dance
  • You're Gonna Have To Serve Somebody
  • Louie C. K.
  • Common Sense
  • Hunting For Witches
  • Living in The Age of "tRump"
  • The Devil is a Hustler
  • The Skinny
  • Eric Dolphy
  • ISIS Rode in On a Donkey
  • "The Manafort Indictment"
  • The Truth About the Middle East
  • Dennis Budimer's "Alone Together" Revisited
  • The Halloween Edition
  • The 20th Century Was Groovy
  • The Salesman
  • The Dossier
  • Elmore James
  • Isle of The Poor
  • The Patriarchy is Alive and Well
  • Moving Napoleon
  • Guns and Guerrillas
  • Playing Four
  • Hollywood and Scumbags
  • Why Everything You Think, Is Wrong
  • Killing Yourself With Terrorism
  • Being Liberal
  • Laced With Hate
  • A Message From Occupy Democrats
  • A Taxing Dilemma
  • What Really Happened with Aid in Puerto Rico
  • Colin Kaepernick and Beyoncé are geniuses. Part 1
  • When the Levee Breaks
  • The Second Coming of Anthony Weiner
  • How to Never Lose a Fight
  • Creating Chaos out of Meaning
  • Crime and Punishment
  • The Man in the Mirror
  • Guitar Gods of the Sixties
  • Entopy: A Play in One Act
  • The Ragged Tale of a Poverty Stricken Economic Genius
  • The Dreamers
  • Hey There Georgy Girl
  • This Is Not a Defense of Joel Osteen. Or is it?
  • The Ballad of Poindexter Glockenspiel
  • The Big Dummy
  • More Florida in Pictures and Text
  • How Do I Hate Thee
  • Florida in Images and More Images
  • "How To Solve The Healthcare Crisis and Why It's So Damned Hard To Fix"
  • The Big Lie
  • The Demise of the West
  • “Good Times! Good Times! You know, we talkin’ bout Good Times!”
  • "Justice My Ass!"
  • Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
  • The Coming Apocalypse and How to Avoid it: a Historical/Biblical Perspective.
  • "Muthafuckin' Chains!"
  • Lies Our Father's Told Us
  • Poetry and Politics - a few mixed verses
  • The Inner Man
  • The Vampire and The Carpet Salesman
  • Comey Speaks!
  • A Word From Nostradamus about the Comey Hearings
  • The Towering Babble
  • Chain of Fools
  • I Got Ramblin' on My Mind
  • Telling Ourselves Stories
  • Shit! Make Me Wanna Holler!
  • Even More Reasons Why The Paris Accords are Total Horseshit.
  • When Life Imitates Satire
  • Jethro and Becky Sue Come To America
  • Random Apocrypha
  • Why The Paris Climate Accords Are Total Horseshit
  • Urban Stories
  • The Kingdom of God: a personal rant
  • Urban Week @ South Beach
  • Serpico Revisited
  • The Road To Surf-dumb. Or, is it The Road To Serfdom?
  • This is Not a Political Article
  • My Hometown
  • What Does This Mean?
  • We're All Fools Sometime
  • One Pill Makes You Larger
  • "What a Maroon!"
  • Secrets and Lies
  • A Tale of Wine and Murder
  • "White House Under Siege!"
  • The Amateur Narcissist
  • Like a Rock
  • The Greatest of Ally of a True Idiot is.....
  • How To Prove someone's a Witch
  • Jesus Was a Sly Dog
  • An Open Letter From The Democratic National Committee
  • The Power of Language
  • The Existential Croûton
  • Random Facebook Thoughts
  • A Play "The Poverty Racket"
  • The Demise of the 4th Estate
  • Love To Hate My Enemies
  • Feelings, Oh, Oh, Oh, Feelings
  • Art or Reality
  • The Prison Yard Blues
  • Who is Richard Spencer and Why Does He Matter?
  • __an excerpt from "The Power of Voltron "
  • A Plea From a Progressive
  • ANTIFA - The Anti Fascists, Fascists
  • Conspiracy Theory
  • 4 More Poems, 4 More Pictures
  • "Are You Freaking People Insane?"
  • 4 Pictures 4 Poems
  • The Ballad of Carlos Slim
  • Pretending What's in Your Head is True
  • The Cognitive Dissonance of a Faithful Democrat
  • The Human Snakepit
  • George Freeman - Unsung Master of the Jazz Guitar
  • The Price of Milk
  • Suspicious Minds
  • Bill O'Reilly Sexual Predator?
  • The New Soldier
  • Orwell Revisited
  • Larry Coryell - The Godfather is Dead
  • A Tiger Beat
  • South Florida - HOT & COOL
  • Jean Paul Sartre & the Existentialist Mojo
  • Culture Matters, Immigration Matters, Sharks Matter
  • Thomas Sowell
  • A Tree Falls In Central Park on a Gay Banker
  • Black Codes From The Underground
  • Does an Idiot know they're an Idiot?
  • A Poem for Pooh
  • It's All or Nothing Baby!
  • Racism is Alive and Well
  • "Shut the Hell Up!"
  • Jerry Seinfeld - Social Pariah
  • A Man Must Nurture His Pet Peeves
  • Not the Usual Immigration Article
  • Man Talk, with Donald Trump pt. 1
  • Man Talk, with Donald Trump pt. 2
  • The Bad Seed
  • Dogma Never Sleeps
  • Trump and Clinton Debate
  • Was Jesus a True Pacifist?
  • Brexit Was the Shot Heard Around the World
  • Obama, How Great Thou Art
  • War is Good
  • The Willful Ignorance of Intellectual Children
  • What about All Those Peacful Muslims?
  • Terror! What Terror?
  • Biff and Shorty Play The Blues
  • Forty Miles of Bad Road
  • How Obamacare Became the law of the land: And Other Fairytales for Adults
  • Genteel Republicans vs The Alt-Right
  • Should Drugs be Legal?
  • The Prophet Speaks
  • The Dream Sequence
  • Voting 3rd Party and the Moral Low-Ground
  • Sayonara America
  • What does Never Trump Mean?
  • Barack Obama is the Most Brilliant Man Ever to be President?
  • If God Created War, Does That Mean That War is Good?
  • Never Let Your Enemies Define You
  • Facebook, Science & Religion
  • Bullshit by the Numbers
  • Bullshit by the Numbers - part II
  • The Heated Quest for the "No Information Voter"
  • I Love The Dead
  • Those Who Lurk
  • Battered, Bruised and Beaten
  • Trump and Hitler
  • America in Black and White
  • Trans-Athletics
  • Playing a Rigged Game
  • Who was that Mass Murderer?
  • The Kidnappers
  • The Game
  • Terror in Nice: A Variation on a Theme
  • The Idiots Guide on How to Destory the World
  • Terror in France
  • A Fictional Conversation Between a Pastor and a Historian About the Bible
  • The Immoral Necessity for Scapegoats
  • Who Really Shot Those Eleven Cops? Was It Donald Trump?
  • Killer Cops and Cop Killers
  • Happy 4th of July
  • How Do You Cast Your Vote When You've Only Got a Few Bullets Left?
  • "Yes, She's a Lying Sack of Shit....but She's our Lying Sack of Shit."
  • All Apologies
  • Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up
  • Goodbye Scotty Moore
  • If a Bluebird Plays the Blues Why Can't it Play Free Jazz
  • Terror in Turkey
  • When David Slew Goliath
  • The Life & Death of a Global Fat Cat
  • Intentionally Censoring the News
  • The Brits Leave the EU
  • Chick, Christian, Roy & Kenny G
  • Who Really Committed Mass Murder in Orlando
  • The Tale of the Prince and the Shrew
  • A Dying Father's Last Father's Day
  • Mass Murdering, Terrorist's Father is Obama and Hillary's Best Friend
  • Why Cream still Matters 50 Years Later
  • Misguided Anger and Partisan Politics
  • The Deep Guilt of the Religious Left
  • Radical Islam! What Radical Islam?
  • Denial is a River in Egypt
  • A Response to all the Haters
  • Why Muhammad Ali was my Hero (in spite of being a Racist)
  • Why Trump Matters
  • The New Progressive Racism
  • A Tragedy in Cincinnati
  • The Evil that Men do (Women too.)
  • Differences? What Differences?
  • Racism Revisited
  • Battling Immigration Straw Men
  • Blood Quantum
  • Fighting Transgender Straw Men
  • Logical Fallacies about God and Money
  • Progressive Straw Men
  • Everybody is Robbing You Blind
  • On The Road To El Donaldo
  • Dear Mark: About Donald Trump
  • Identifying the Enemy
  • Why I Will Vote For Trump
  • I Totally Agree With Myself
  • Teaching Americans Where to Pee
  • Goodbye Lonnie Mack
  • Bernie Wants You To Pay His Fair Share
  • Bruce Springsteen vs. North Carolina
  • Mr. Smiley Is an Idiot
  • Why Does College Cost So Much?
  • Black Power and Bad Vibes At Whiteness History Month
  • How Facebook Showed Me That We're Doomed
  • Muslims kill Muslims by means of White People
  • The Slap
  • America Wants a 3rd Party Candidate
  • Jesus Loved Everybody
  • Call it what it is.
  • Belgium vs. Turkey. Which One is Worse?
  • Barack, Fidel and Che
  • How He Gonna Get His Money pt. 2
  • How He Gonna Get His Money
  • The Turn of The Screw
  • Dear America: Now, about Trump....
  • The Attack of the Anti Trumpers
  • Did You Know that America is Socialism....and boy, ain't it Swell
  • Trump - Prophet or Blowhard?
  • Black Lies Matter, All Lies Matter
  • The Donald and the Debate
  • Leonardo and The Bear
  • The Thunder Rolled and the "Trump" Blows em all to Hell
  • Fragmented Fairytails
  • Cars That Never Were but Should've Been, Part 6
  • Building The Perfect Beast
  • America: A Tale of Two Cities, Part 1
  • Uncle Bernie in New Hampshire
  • The Big L
  • The Diary of a Former Leftist
  • Free Speech not Hate Speech?
  • State of the Union
  • Losing My Religion
  • Don't Take Our Guns Away Until We Kill Those Honky Bastards
  • Bye Bye Europe
  • "Trump is a Racist!"
  • "Hell Yeah! I've Got Obama Care!
  • Trumponomics
  • Woman of the Year
  • Malicious Intent and the Art of the Microaggression
  • Muslim No-Go Zones - Myth or Reality?
  • Donald J. Trump and the Muslim Migration to America
  • There Is No God But Allah?
  • Roadhouse - The Reboot
  • Sometimes You Just Can't Win
  • A Few Thoughts Regarding Trump
  • Cars That Never Were But Should've Been, Part 5
  • You Can Have My Steering Wheel When You Pry It From Cold, Daed Hands
  • The Great Debate
  • Al, Thomas and Paul - Malthusians Then and Now
  • A Prophet Debates Global Warming and other retated Dogma
  • Memes, Scapegoats, Propaganda
  • Little Hillary and Her Monsters
  • A Prophecy for America
  • The Basketball Metaphor
  • Vladimir Putin: An American Hero
  • Little Things
  • The Democrats Debate
  • It's All Ablout da Benjamins
  • Remember When?
  • Mass Shooter
  • Cars That Never Were But Should've Been: Part 4
  • Should A Muslim Be President in America?
  • The Strange Case of Ahmed Mohamed
  • Debt and Other Devious Angels
  • Bernie Sanders is Caesar not Jesus
  • An inconvenient Truth
  • Who's really a Native American?
  • The Rebirth of the Silent Majority
  • Money That's What I Want!
  • The Syrian Crisis and the Memeing of America
  • Why Societies Have Generally Valued Men More than Women
  • The Problem of Evil
  • A few Thoughts on a Few Things
  • The Authentic pose of a Black White Man
  • Sweden: Socialist Utopia or Progressive Madhouse?
  • Why Dogs Matter
  • Guilty Until Proven Innocent
  • Was Jesus a Socialist?
  • "The Donald" A Man for the Ages
  • Harvesting the Wheat - or - Karma's a Real Bitch
  • Cecil The Lion
  • Cars That Never Were but Should’ve Been, Part 3
  • Secrets and Lies
  • Can Minorities Be Racist?
  • I Was Just Thinking....Hmm?
  • Iran Deal - Good or Bad?
  • Jihad or Not Jihad? That is the Question.
  • "Let's Do Lunch" with Planned Parenthood
  • America The Contemptible
  • Marriage, Bigotry and Cooties
  • The Things We Care About
  • The Simplicity of it All
  • A Dissenting Opinion
  • Cars That Should've Been, But Never Were: part II
  • Live Now, Pay Later
  • I Am, Whatever I Say I Am!
  • Bernie Sanders is the Dumbest Bastard on Earth
  • Cars That Never Were But Should've Been
  • Bruce Jenner
  • The Good Society
  • A Personal Jesus For My Own
  • Take a Ride on a Hell Bound Train
  • Requiem For a Car Show
  • Obama Channels Neville Chamberlain in Dealing with Iran
  • The Short Life of a Political Lemming
  • The Strongman
  • The Broken Window
  • The Selective Outrage of The Anti Israel Left
  • When the Blind Lead the Blind
  • Top Brass With Class
  • Living In A world On Fire
  • Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell
  • What The Hell Is Esotericism?
  • Unicorns, Free Healthcare and other Mythological Creatures
  • Heroes and Dunces
  • A Few Thoughts On a Few Things
  • The Return Of Super Fly
  • Should You Ever Bet On A dead Horse?
  • Money For Nothing
  • Across The Great Divide
  • Tom, Jerry, Eddie & Sydney
  • The Folly of Foibles
  • Who really killed Eric Garner?
  • The Art of The Sale
  • Political Bullshit and All That Jazz
  • Oh, The Horror of It All
  • To Torture or Not To Torture, That is The Question
  • Selective Justice
  • Executive Action
  • Give Us Your Tired, Poor and Ambitious
  • Johnny Winter, Ahhh-Yeahh!
  • Homeless and Transgender "Let My People Pee!"
  • Are We Insane? You Betcha!
  • Ebola and Racism
  • You're a Racist, Just Admit It!
  • To Discriminate or Not to Discriminate, That is the Question
  • The Life of an Imaginary Historian
  • Why Most Debates About The Minimum Wage are Bullshit
  • The Return of the Infinite Monkeys
  • Politically Correct Genocide
  • Language and the illusion of Meaning
  • Obama vs. Reagan
  • Is Barack Obama our Most Successful President Ever?
  • White Racism Black Racism
  • The Race
  • Should People Be Free to Discriminate?
  • Science, Religion and Brother Neil
  • Welcome To America
  • The Reincarnation of Jimmy Carter and the Return of Scarface
  • SCOTUS, Condoms and Collateral Damage
  • The American Dream
  • Attack of the Bloated Leeches or "Why Does the Economy Suck pt. II"
  • Why Does the Economy Suck?
  • Jaco Pastorius - A Passage in Time
  • How can we save the world, from people who want to save the world?
  • A Short Political rant: pt I
  • Jerry Reed, Tom Jones and the Original Guitar Heroes
  • Part Two: The Politics of the Eloi and the Morlock
  • Angel: part 7
  • Wayne Cochran "Going Back to Miami"
  • Blessed Assurances and other Iron Clad Guarantees
  • James Brown & the Art of the Indefinite Rhythm
  • If the Bible Say's it, I believe It!
  • Go For a Jog, Go to Jail
  • Life as Theatre and The Well-Intended Sociopath
  • Rory Gallagher & Taste
  • Utopia and the Militant Socialist
  • Matt Damon & the Teachers Union vs. the Capitalist Pigs
  • The Fight of the Century
  • The Last Damned Healthcare Article You'll Ever Need
  • The Gospel According to Mark
  • You Might Be an Idiot if.....
  • How To Interpret Political Speech and other Forms of Gibberish
  • Polygamy and the Search For Morality
  • The "Big" Gulp
  • When a Lie is the Truth and the Truth is a Lie
  • Jim Hall - The Subtle Radical
  • Making Deals With the Devil in Iran
  • Dennis and Mary
  • Thank You Lord For the Good Things You have Done
  • Excersise In Futility
  • Is Obama The Antichrist?
  • The Case for Limited Government (and that includes a limited military)
  • The Weekly Southern Blog
  • Angel: part VI
  • The Esoteric Agenda
  • Ted Bundy & The Hunt For The Devil
  • Things I wish the President Knew Pt. 3
  • Really Now, I'm Syria
  • What Will You Do?
  • Charlie & Clint: Dead & Deader
  • God Loves Me and Has a Plan For My Life...Right?
  • Trayvon & George : An American Hate Story
  • Is God's Grace Ecclesiastical White-out?
  • Jury Duty
  • The Left's Contradictory Love Affair With Gays & Muslims
  • Hee Haw and Grandma and Grandpa
  • Little Tommy & The Blues Kings
  • Gay Marriage: Part II
  • Kayaking "The Big Cypress" with Crocodlies
  • The Birth of The Jazz Guitarist
  • Running With The Bullshit In Pamplona
  • Divided By Abortion
  • Gay Marriage
  • Life on the Fault-line
  • Out of the Wild
  • A Generation Out Of Touch
  • Morning Faith with a Cup of Joe
  • For The Children
  • Made up Facts & True Beliefs
  • The Unforgettable - Nat 'King' Cole
  • Slavery Was Big Business....and It Still Is!
  • Garage Band - The 1960's
  • A Man's Best Friend is his Dogma
  • Voting With Our Private Parts
  • Investors of the World, Unite
  • Good Intentions...bad results
  • The Plural of "You"
  • How to Get God to Give You What You Want: Redux
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Angel: Part V - A Novel By Thomas A. Hall - Parts 1, 2,3 and 4 can be found at the bottom of the page

"She used to work for the government. She just killed her husband. She’s in bed with drug dealers—and she may be the only person left who can save the world"…

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Evan  

Evan woke up slowly.  His head hurt and it took him a moment to remember what had happened.  As he thought about it, he realized that he was on someone’s shoulder and was being carried.  While considering this, he was abruptly thrown down and shoved into a car.  He didn’t want to open his eyes or make any sound as he tried to assess his surroundings but found that he was looking around anyway.  What he intended, and what he did, weren’t connecting.  In his jumbled brain, the words of others took on the same significance of his own thoughts.

“Man, that chica was hot!” Nicki exclaimed.

“Yeah,” Juan said, “Who was that?”

Diego said, “Hey, el estupido!  Silencio!”

Evan thought groggily, “What chica?”

Diego pointed back at Nicki, “You!  Check our amigo here.  I think he’s coming around.”

Nicki grabbed Evan’s chin roughly and turned his head towards him.  “Yeah, I think he’s faking it.”

With that, Nicki shook Evan.  Evan pretended to just be coming to and said, “Wha-what?  What’s going on?”  His words were slurred and that wasn’t fakery.

Nicki said, “Hey, Boss, what do you want to do with this guy?”

Diego answered, “Just keep him quiet for now.  We’ll deal with him in good time.”

Evan grunted as Nicki pushed his face towards the side of the car.

Nicki said, “You heard the man.  Shut up!”

Diego drove towards Hialeah.  He pulled into a warehouse complex off Red Road and drove toward a bay in the rear.  Nicki jumped out and unlocked and opened the garage-style bay door.  As Diego parked the car and turned off the engine, Juan jumped out and, opening the rear door, grabbed Evan and pulled him out of the car and onto the floor of the warehouse bay.  Nicki came around to the same side of the car and grabbed Evan from behind.  The two men lifted Evan and carried him, feet dangling above the floor, to an old steel office chair.  Dropping Evan into the chair, they produced more zip ties and fastened his arms and legs to the chair.

Evan looked around and saw that he was in a mechanic’s car repair shop.  In front of him was a hydraulic lift.  It was holding a Toyota pick up truck at what would have been eye level if he were standing.

Diego walked over and stood in front of him.  “Hola, Señor,” he said.  Evan noted that the speaker’s voice seemed calm, very calm.  Diego nodded and Evan’s head was jerked back by Nicki so that he had to look up towards Diego’s face.

“Perhaps you don’t speak Spanish, Señor?” asked Diego.

Evan just stared at him.  He still felt out of it and wished his head would stop pounding.  “Whichever one of these guys hit me, did a good job,” he thought.

“I speak Spanish, but I prefer English,” he answered.  It hurt his head to speak, but even as scrambled as his thoughts were, he had a pretty clear idea that not speaking was going to make him hurt a lot more.  “What are you doing?  Why are you holding me here?”

Diego said, “All in good time, Señor.  First, why don’t you tell us about yourself?  We are very interested in your export business.”

Evan tensed as he heard the question, “How did they know he had an export business?”  He answered, “My export business?  What do you want to know?  I export American pharmaceuticals to South America.”

Diego replied, “Si, so I have heard.  However, I don’t know many people in South America who pay for expensive American drugs.  You must have a very privileged clientele, no?”

Evan said, “Well, not all American drugs are terribly expensive but, it’s true, some of them are only purchased by people of larger financial means.”

Diego responded, “It looks like the business has been very good to you.  With a house on the ocean in Golden Beach, you must be doing very well.  But my interest is in another part of your business.  I want you to tell me about Halpan.”

Diego watched Evan’s face for signs of surprise at the name “Halpan.”  Nothing.

Evan calmly said, “Halpan?  What about it?  They have been a supplier of some pharmaceuticals.”

Diego, with a slight edge in his voice, said, “Tell me what those products were.  My associates and I are particularly interested in a virus recently developed by them.”

Evan arched an eyebrow and asked, “A virus?  I don’t know what you mean.  Halpan did research on a number of different fronts, but I don’t know anything about a virus.”  He shrugged and looked confusedly around at Diego, Juan and Nicki.

Diego smiled and Evan knew that things were about to get serious.  With a suddenness that surprised Nicki and Juan, Diego kicked over the chair Evan was tied to.  Evan and the chair landed on the floor with a scraping thud.  With another kick, Diego shoved the chair towards the hydraulic lift.  Evan, although on his side, could see that his head was under the lift.

Diego pushed the lift control button and the truck began to descend.  He leaned towards Evan and said, “Would you like to change your answer now?”

Evan no longer looked calm.  His right ear was bleeding from being scraped across the concrete floor and he was squirming and gasping as he tried to move from under the lift. He tried to move, but Diego motioned to Juan and he held the chair in place. 

Just as the lift was about to crush Evan’s face, Diego pushed the control button and stopped the descent.  He said, “Now I will ask you again, tell me about the virus?”

Evan looked at him awkwardly as he lay under the lift.  He hesitated and Diego said, “Okay guys, which way do you think his brains will squirt when I push the button again?”

Evan could feel the cold steel of the lift on his cheek.  He moaned and said, “Halpan came up with a virus that kills people.  The head of the company developed it to kill drug dealers and producers.  He was obsessed with stopping the drug business.  I was caught importing cocaine into the U.S. and he was able to pull strings and get me off of the charges.  But, he then wanted me to fund the project and export the virus to Colombia and, I think, he wanted to export it to other places in the future.”

Diego said, “That’s much better.  Now, tell me, what is his name?”

Evan answered, “His name is Juan Arvelo.”

Diego asked, “Where is the virus now?”

Evan said, “I don’t know.  Really!  I don’t know!”

Diego leaned over and patted Evan’s leg, which was sticking up in the air and attached to the overturned chair leg.  “I’m sure you are telling me the truth, Señor, because if you don’t, we will test the lift on your skull.”  He smiled in a particularly menacing manner.  “Where do you think it is?” he asked.

“All I know is that we sent some of the virus to Colombia a few weeks ago.  Since then, I only saw Mr. Arvelo once.  When I saw him, he was with another man and seemed very angry, as if he had lost a friend.  He told me that he would be arranging for a larger shipment of the virus to be sent to Colombia soon.  However, I haven’t seen him since.”

Diego asked him, “When was that last meeting?”

Evan said, “Last Thursday.”

Diego said, “Okay, this is very helpful.  Now, who was the other man with him?”

Evan said, “I don’t know who he was.  He didn’t speak.  He just looked on as Mr. Arvelo talked.”

Diego replied, “What did he look like?”

“Probably just under six feet tall, with his hair pulled back in a ponytail.  His hair and eyes were brown.”

Diego asked, “So, why were you at the Tropic Resort in Sunny Isles last Friday?”

Evan looked surprised, but answered, “Mr. Arvelo asked me to help him.  He was going to take down a famous drug dealer, Victor Cruz.  He was obsessed with catching him.  He asked me to help him trap the guy in his hotel room.”

“Who were the two men in your house?” asked Deigo.

Evan said, “They are my security guards.”

Diego said, “Why does a pharmaceutical distributor need security guards?”

Evan looked at him disdainfully and responded, “I told you I was a drug dealer.  Even though I haven’t been dealing lately, I still have to watch my back.”

Diego said, “I see…and who was the woman?”

Evan said, “She is the liaison with Mr. Arvelo.  Her name is Kim.  I don’t really know her, but she was put there to keep an eye on the operation.  I don’t think Mr. Arvelo trusted me!”

Diego said, “This has been very helpful.  However, we may yet have some more questions for you, so my associates are going to have to keep you for awhile.  If you continue to cooperate, you may survive.  If you don’t, well, this lift is only one of the options to be considered.”

With that, Diego nodded at Juan and he pulled Evan from under the hydraulic lift and set him upright in the chair.  Diego turned to Nicki and said, “Take our friend to the house in Southwest Ranches and hold him there.  I will contact you later.”

Turning back to Evan, he said, “You will be our guest for a little while.  These two will be your escorts.  If you behave, they will treat you well.  If you don’t behave, they will simply drug you and leave you in a coma until I am ready for you.”

With that, Diego nodded at Juan and Nicki and walked over to the Bentley.  He climbed in, but soon came back out.  He held a photograph up to Evan’s face and said, “Is this the man who was with Juan Arvelo?”

Evan looked surprised, but nodded his head, “Yes, that is him.  Who is he?”

Diego replied, “No matter.  Gracias.”

Returning to the car, Diego again climbed in, this time starting the car, and waited while Nicki opened the bay door of the garage.  Backing out, Diego drove away.  As he turned onto Red Road and headed north, he called Angel on his cellphone.

Database  

When Angel got home, she immediately grabbed the power cord from her own computer and tried it with the laptop she’d taken from the house in Golden Beach.  It fit.  “Thank God for the ubiquity of Dell computers!” she thought.

She had been concerned that the laptop would power down and she would then have no access to the files without knowing the password.  Although she knew people who could break into virtually any computer and gain access to whatever files were there, she didn’t want to have to explain to them where the computer came from nor what the files meant.  Thankfully, the woman she’d shot must have been working on the computer when they raided the house.  Whatever her password was, it was still in effect and the computer was open to Angel’s search.

Angel looked at the open files on the desktop.  The dead woman had been surfing the internet.  She was on a shopping site!  Angel suddenly felt queasy as she looked at the picture on the screen.  It was a pretty, vintage Diane Von Furstenberg wrap-around dress.  She thought that she might have looked at the same dress and, indeed, had a similar dress in her closet.  She thought of the dead woman’s lifeless eyes staring up at her from the floor of the house she’d left a few minutes before and then, consciously berating herself, said out loud, “Get a grip!  She was trying to kill you!”

Shaking off the unease, Angel opened the “history” menu on the computer and looked to see what sites had been recently visited online.  There were several other shopping sites, a travel magazine site and two different airline websites.  Scrolling further, she saw that there were entries for Halpan and for PETA’s sites.  The PETA sites included both the local and international webpages.

“Okay, let’s see what PETA offers,” she mused.

The PETA South Florida site showed photos of four bearded men in tee shirts and shorts standing in what looked like a cow pasture in the Redlands area of South Miami.  They were grinning at the camera and holding up their fists.  The caption under the photos read, “Members vow to defend animals from farmers’ cruelty.”

Reading further, Angel recognized that these must have been the guys who beat the farmer she’d heard about from Diego.  Although they didn’t admit to doing anything of the sort, the author of the article coyly noted their compassion for caged animals and their willingness to stand up to those who would abuse animals in this way for profit.  She wondered how it was that they could think it a good and honorable idea for the four of them to attack a single farmer and beat him nearly to death.  “Ay, Dios mio, Papi,” she muttered, “What is the world coming to?”

Scrolling further on the website, Angel saw an article on fundraising that mentioned the opportunity for others to support the efforts of PETA through their contributions.  The article mentioned that the Miami chapter of PETA had recently been the recipient of a “major contribution” by a local pharmaceutical manufacturer and thanked Mr. Juan Arvelo for his “untiring efforts on our behalf.”

Glancing at the top of the page, Angel noticed a menu item “Earth Day – April 22nd.”  Clicking on the link, a clock appeared.  Angel gasped when she saw it.  The clock was labeled “The End” and was set at 11:57.  She thought to herself, “Dear God, these people are nuts!

Beneath the clock was an article, authored by Juan Blanco, describing how this coming Earth Day was going to be the day when a new initiative was launched to stop animal abuse and reduce environmental abuse by humans.  Angel read the article and thought, “That’s it!  They’re planning to release the virus on Earth Day!”

She moved on, checking the emails on the machine, putting a USB “memory stick” drive into the USB port, she downloaded the current and archived emails.  “There could be some interesting reading here,” she thought.  As she thought this, her phone rang.  Now recognizing the number, she answered and said, “Yes?”

Diego simply said, “It has been confirmed. Juan Arvelo was working with Javier Carlos Rodriguez Blanco.  I will call you again tomorrow after 10:00 a.m.”  With that, he hung up.

Angel lowered the phone from her ear and wondered what had happened to Evan Rodriguez.  Mentally moving on, she recognized that “Juan Arvelo,” her ex-husband George Ramirez, by his involvement with Javier Carlos Rodriguez Blanco, had now confirmed the suspicions of Victor Cruz and Diego that Javier Carlos Rodriguez Blanco was the ringleader of the group seeking to destroy mankind with a deadly virus.


Thomas A. Hall

You can read parts 1,2 & 3, here, by following the links
1. http://www.weeklysouthernarts.com/angel-chapter-1---a-novel-by-thomas-a-hall.html 
2. http://www.weeklysouthernarts.com/angel-part-ii.html
3.  http://www.weeklysouthernarts.com/angel---pt-3.html 
4.  http://www.weeklysouthernarts.com/angel-part-four.html

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