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Mmmm Dry Heat!
Fear the electric bill this month! I’m sitting in the cool, comfortable confines of my house, enjoying a refreshing and reinvigorating 69 degrees of glorious, god-given air conditioning. Outside it’s a crushing 117 degrees of dry heat, so dry and so heated, in fact, that yesterday when I went to turn on my wipers and squirt some water to clear away a bit of dust on the windshield, there was literally a little thin trail of rubber left behind on the glass around where the edge of the wiper blade had passed. No, I am not kidding. I’m not allowing myself to consider the ecological impact of cooling my personal shelter to a differential of 48 degrees from the outside air, because well, I gotta have it cool, baby!
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Las Vegas Day Trip #2: Heidi Fleiss’ Dirty Laundry in Pahrump
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Heidi Fleiss, the famous (or infamous, if you prefer; I prefer the former) Hollywood madam-to-the-stars who was convicted in 1995 for tax evasion (the pandering charges were dropped, as I understand it,) has branched out into the greater Las Vegas area, having moved to Pahrump, Nevada about a year ago. During that time the media now and again makes reference to her plans to purchase and convert a Las Vegas brothel in the Pahrump Valley into Nevada’s first male brothel for women, aptly to be named “Heidi’s Stud Farm…” 
I Think Summer Has Arrived
It’s been some peculiar weather America has been experiencing, in general, as of late. Late season snow storms in the northern Midwest, unexpected cool, mild nights out here in the desert, and now, on the turn of a single week, summer has arrived in full effect a little early.
It was literally ten days ago that I was writing about just how wonderfully mild it has been out here when it would normally be warming up a little bit.
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Guilty Plea for “Casino” Murders…
It only took the feds 21 years, but they’ve finally gotten at least one plea of guilty in the killings of two Chicago Outfit mafia members. These guys were made famous, albeit with names changed, in the hit movie “Casino” by Martin Scorsese.
Tony “the ant” Spilotro is the real name of the character played by Joe Pesci in the film. He and his brother (Michael Spilotro in real life) were both beaten to death and buried in a field in Indiana, if you recall from watching the movie – that event in the film was factual.
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