Billmon is the owner and proprietor of the Whiskey Bar, which has been
intermittently open and serving drinks in the blogosphere since 2003. He
enjoys reading, foreign travel and the Daily Show. Turn offs include
conservatives, idiots (ah, but he repeats himself) and tactical nuclear
weapons.

Blog Entries by Billmon

Always the Dollars

Posted October 10, 2006 | 11:38 PM (EST)


"It took months for everything to calm down, but finally my guys got out on bail and the bosses wanted me to send my brother Dominick out to Vegas. With them it was always the dollars, always the fuckin' dollars."

Nicky Santoro
Casino
1995

There's been a fair...

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Hook, Line and Sinking

Posted May 12, 2006 | 11:40 PM (EST)


Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party -- an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself,...
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American Nightmarez

Posted May 1, 2006 | 07:32 PM (EST)


If you want to see the difference between real political satire and the cheap imitation stuff, watch (or read) Stephen Colbert's merciless skewering of the Cheney administration and its media lapdogs, then go fork over your $10 and see the movie American Dreamz, which purports to do the...

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Payback

Posted April 16, 2006 | 04:56 PM (EST)


The Washington Post had a long story in Saturday's paper (front page) about all those enraged liberals out in cyberspace who are doing completely crazy things -- like blowing up federal buildings with truck bombs and threatening to kill judges.

Well, actually, who aren't doing any those things...

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