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La Costa developer Merv Adelson dead at 85
One of the biggest stiffers was a lieutenant of Kahn's, and somehow some Iranians ended up at one of their big parties. I couple of Kahn's Chicago goons (right out of central casting--a Peter Lore type and tall, salt-and-peppered guy like a cross between Peter Lawford and Jack Palance [if you can imagine such a thing] )--got me in an elevator and told me that what I was doing wasn't healthy (criticizing the proposed "Tierrasanta" development). Talk about twisted irony when it comes to naming subdivisions (as in where the Devil himself has sprinkled the hills and dales with unexploded ordinance). Shoulda been called "Tierra del Diablo." I forget how many kids got blown up . . . Is there no antidote for bullshit?— September 11, 2015 2:22 p.m.
Divorce of a billionaire (cont'd)
My trophy wife is a gol-durned JEWEL! Been with her well over forty years. Hey, she may not be as faithful as a bird-dog or as kind as Santy Claus, and I don't worry about what she has not, but I'm sure'n hell thankful for what she has got. Twister (every which way but loose)— September 11, 2015 1:59 p.m.
La Costa developer Merv Adelson dead at 85
I was stiffed (no pun intended) big-time (many thousands of dollars) so many times by developers (many, if not all, with mob ties) that I quit accepting work for them and worked for government agencies and (so-called "do-gooder") NGO's (yellow-bellied sapsuckers) instead until I got tired of wise guy/gal shenanigans and retired. Some difference, but not much. One is expected to kiss the rings of both the mob and the government lackeys. The government agency and NGO "project managers" might not put out a hit on you, but they would cancel your contracts. Most people have no idea how widespread criminal (if not always illegal) behavior is in the real world.— September 10, 2015 5:59 p.m.
Doctor enjoyed 'shrooms and ecstasy
"Aye, dinna forget laddie/lassie, 'tis frriction's brrisk, rrough rub 'at pr'vides the vital spark!"— September 9, 2015 11:12 a.m.
Doctor enjoyed 'shrooms and ecstasy
On Mary Jane, you have to stay below 400 feet with all the other drones.— September 9, 2015 11:02 a.m.
Lawyer Carrillo won't fight charges
This is why I suspect that culture is a psychopathology. In its extreme forms (although the concept of culture itself, given that social interaction is an option) it results in a kind of neurosis that is tied to a fear of starvation and loss that goes 'way back to culture's origins. As one acquires more, one continuously resets the bar that defines "doing without," which compounds the neurosis because the higher one goes, the farther one has to fall. Then there is the bragging rights thing. Anthropologists have called the idea of possessing, say, a headdress of bird-of-paradise feathers "sympathetic magic" because the damned fool thinks the magic possessed by the bird, the mink, the Rolls, the Rolex, is transferred to the one possessing it. Egocentrism on steroids. Equals limitless greed. Three is no such thing as adequacy, no such thing as "enough."— September 8, 2015 2:52 p.m.
Divorce of a billionaire (cont'd)
Back in the fifties, Lloyd (Sig-Alert) Sigmon told me that the "paper millionaires" as they were called in those days, had only to be caught in a misrepresentation once, and they would be shunned by those in the upper echelons of business, ostracized for life. Big deals were made with handshakes. Sigmon was a square-dealer, but he managed Autry's money very wisely. Started out as an Oklahoma country boy with a ham radio license. He and his wife were among the very best of their kind.— September 7, 2015 11:34 p.m.
Doctor enjoyed 'shrooms and ecstasy
Drug companies want to control all drugs and "soak the sick" (Gerald Charlton). I have to take dangerous, unhealthy pain killers even though I know from experience what a superior pain killer cannabis is, in the form that doesn't make one high. But I can't afford to run the risk of getting caught. I could lose my pilot's license.— September 7, 2015 11:21 p.m.
Doctor enjoyed 'shrooms and ecstasy
Apologies to Alexander Reid Martin. I messed it up a little.— September 7, 2015 11:12 p.m.
San Diegans cause Southwest Airlines plane diversion
There's the even seedier act of a symbolic show of force, demonstrating that intimidation remains the tool of the wealthy bully. I was taught never to threaten anyone any time. I consider any threat to be putting my life or those of others in danger, which should, in a truly civilized society, be answered with more than enough counterforce to ELIMINATE the threat. As a result of this social more, I had the good fortune to grow up in a safe, peaceful community. As to guns, everybody had them, but the rule was never to use them to threaten. "If your gun clears leather, it'd better be smoking."— September 7, 2015 1:17 a.m.