An American Drug Lord in Acapulco

How a high school jock from Texas rose to the top of one of Mexico's most powerful and ruthless cartels

Excerpt:   ....a few weeks later, one of Barbie's assistants was pulled over by the police on the way to a carwash in Mexico City. Two officers jumped out of their black truck, guns drawn. "Freeze, motherfucker!" they screamed. They demanded to know where Barbie was. "Where is that son of a bitch?" one officer said. "Don't bullshit, or I'll cut off your balls and feed them to you."

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE....
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/an-american-drug-lord-in-acapulco-20110825

I LOVE NY

The short time I spent living in Spanish Harlem will not be forgotten....I Love NY.  A visual and heart-warming dedication to NY and the man behind the famous logo...
https://vimeo.com/270244268

From Memory to Myth: The Adventures of Patrick Leigh Fermor

The daring exploits and beguiling charm of the 20th century’s greatest travel writer...

https://www.weeklystandard.com/dominic-green/from-memory-to-myth-the-adventures-of-patrick-leigh-fermor

Hitler lived until 1962? That's my story, claims Argentinian writer

Did Hitler live and die in this Argentinian Hotel?

Excerpt:

"Arguing that American intelligence officials turned a blind eye to Hitler's escape in return for access to Nazi war technology, Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan set out the case for a scenario almost too horrible to contemplate: that the Führer and Eva Braun made a home in the foothills of the Andes and had two daughters.
Hitler, they claim, escaped punishment and lived out his life in tranquillity in Patagonia until his death in 1962 at the age of 73.

READ MORE HERE...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/hitler-lived-1962-argentina-plagiarism 

ALSO Check out this fascinating documentary...

Hitler's Escape 

More interesting info...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478100/Theory-Adolf-Hitler-fled-Argentina-lived-age-73.html 

The Story of Amanda Todd

 

A heartbreaking, yet amazing story of a Vancouver teen who is driven to suicide after experiencing years of bullying both on and offline.  Definitely, worth sharing...

The mother of a teenager who died Wednesday of suspected suicide wants her daughter’s anti-cyber-bullying video to be used to help other young people.

Fifteen-year-old Amanda Todd was found dead in a Port Coquitlam home at 6 p.m. Wednesday, five weeks after she posted a heartbreaking video on YouTube detailing how she was harassed online and bullied.
“I think the video should be shared and used as an anti-bullying tool. That is what my daughter would have wanted,” Carol Todd, Amanda’s mother, told The Vancouver Sun in a message on Twitter.

See full video and story here...
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Port+Coquitlam+teen+driven+death+cyberbullying+with+video/7375941/story.html

Or here... 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej7afkypUsc&feature=g-logo-xit 

Update...

The internet vigilantes: Anonymous hackers' group outs man, 32, 'who drove girl, 15, to suicide by spreading topless photos her...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218532/Amanda-Todd-Anonymous-names-man-drove-teen-kill-spreading-nude-pictures.html?ICO=most_read_module

 

In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011

See more photos here.

RIP, definitely admired his unpopular views...

Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller attacking religious belief, and dismayed his former comrades on the left by enthusiastically supporting the American-led war in Iraq, died Thursday at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He was 62.

“In whatever kind of a ‘race’ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist,” Mr. Hitchens wrote in Vanity Fair, for which he was a contributing editor.
He took pains to emphasize that he had not revised his position on atheism, articulated in his best-selling 2007 book, “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” although he did express amused appreciation at the hope, among some concerned Christians, that he might undergo a late-life conversion.
He also professed to have no regrets for a lifetime of heavy smoking and drinking. “Writing is what’s important to me, and anything that helps me do that — or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation — is worth it to me,”

A young Christopher Hitchens circa 1968, picketing at a non-union factory in his native England.

READ MORE HERE...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html?pagewanted=all

ALSO WORTH CHECKING OUT...

Christopher Hitchens on The Daily Show: Sparring with Jon Stewart Over the Years...

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/11/Christopher-Hitchens-on-iThe-Daily-Showi-Sparring-with-Jon-Stewart-Over-the-Years

...the last sentence

The last words they spoke...

"I'll finally get to see Marilyn." 

Joe DiMaggio talking about his former wife Marilyn Monroe

1914-1999

"Remember, the death penalty is murder."

Robert Drew 

Executed in Texas on August 2nd, 1994

      (If your read the statement above, you'll find out that he was actually innocent)

"Please don't leave me.  Please don't leave me."

Chris Farley 1964-1997

Said to a prostitute as she left his hotel room following a weekend-long drug and sex binge. When she turned around, Chris Farley had collapsed. 

 Eugene O'Neill 1888-1953 Writer

As O'Neill was dying at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston, he whispered the words: "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room."

 Before dying of a stroke, Thomas Hobbes whispered...

"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."

"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper." 

Robert Alton Harris was a career criminal and murderer who was executed in San Quentin's Gas Chamber in 1992.

 

"Gentlemen, I bid you farewell..." 

Said English violinist Wallace Hartley to his bandmates. Seconds later the Titanic sank.  1878-1912

• Note: One survivor who clambered aboard distinctly heard Hartley say these words before he and the band were swept off the deck by the sea.

 "No you certainly can't."

This was said in reply to Nellie Connelly, wife of Governor John Connelly, commenting "You certainly can't say that the people of Dallas haven't given you a nice welcome, Mr. President."  Moments later he was assassinated.

John F. Kennedy 1917-1963

 

A note by found by Mark Twain's death bed read...

"Death, the only immortal, who treats us alike, whose peace and refuge are for all.  The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and unloved."

6,557 Miles To Nowhere

Another exceptional article by Chuck Klosterman...

Death is part of life. Generally, it’s the shortest part of life, usually occurring near the end. However, this is not necessarily true for rock stars; sometimes rock stars don’t start living until they die. I want to understand why that is. I want to find out why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing. I want to find out why plane crashes and drug overdoses and shotgun suicides turn longhaired guitar players into messianic prophets. I want to walk the blood-soaked streets of rock’n’roll and chat with the survivors as they writhe in the gutter. This is my quest. Now, to do this, I will need a rental car...

Read more at:

http://www.spin.com/articles/6557-miles-nowhere