Kotzkopf arrived nearly an hour early for his consultation yesterday, and I knew exactly why, too. It was so he could hang around my comfortably furnished reception area, splitting his time between playing Angry Birds in HD on an iPad and ogling Gretchen. I’d bet that those diversions did quite a bit to cheer him… Continue reading $499 US Government Web Sites Worth Every Penny
Category: Society and Trends
Snakes on the Ecliptic Plane!
As I’ve said before several times in this Web log, if the United States does, in fact, sincerely want to solve the illegal alien problem, all that we need to do is treat the Americans who hire them the way we treat drug dealers. Certainly, diddling with tax policies isn’t going to accomplish much, except… Continue reading Snakes on the Ecliptic Plane!
Tonight’s XO Movie – “Top Gun Misfires”
Military types love to get up early, and so it made sense that Gretchen found a Navy lieutenant waiting for her when she came in at 7:30 to open up this morning. She told me he’d been there waiting since “oh-seven-hundred” as he put it. And he didn’t seem to mind waiting a while longer,… Continue reading Tonight’s XO Movie – “Top Gun Misfires”
The Future Just Isn’t What it Used to Be
My father’s older brother, Edward, never changed his last name back to Martini like my father did. As a matter of fact, when Dad resigned his position as an engineer at General Dynamics and left the Connecticut suburbs for Little Italy in Manhattan and a job tending a bar at the Stuyvesant New Amsterdam Hotel… Continue reading The Future Just Isn’t What it Used to Be
From Belarus, with Fear and Loathing
I got started at eight in the morning today, owing to the fact that my first consultation consisted of a telephone call from President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk. It was three in the afternoon there, of course. President Lukashenko, not being fluent in English, spoke through an interpreter. Interpreter: Hello? Tom Collins? Tom: This is… Continue reading From Belarus, with Fear and Loathing