Don’t tell anybody, but the food served in the cafeteria at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia is simply awful. I’m not absolutely positive, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t a violation of United States national security to reveal that the tuna salad is made with partially hydrogenated cotton seed oil and is consequently loaded with… Continue reading Reverend’s Mouth Goes Off Half Cocked
Category: Politics and Law
Old Soldiers Never Lie, It Just Sounds That Way
Henry Clay, who died 156 years ago this last June 29, contributed quite a few things to American history. Some put him in the top ten politicians to ever hold federal office. The man certainly kept busy, that’s for sure, almost single-handedly starting the War of 1812, acting as the chief architect of the Missouri… Continue reading Old Soldiers Never Lie, It Just Sounds That Way
General Slick Willy Orders Rear Guy Action
Things slow down in July, even in Washington. Actually, Washington begins slowing down on Memorial Day and by, say, the second week of August, if it weren’t for the questionably clad hordes of reeking tourists, you’d swear the place was a ghost town. So, unlike my usual hectic office schedule, I had the opportunity this… Continue reading General Slick Willy Orders Rear Guy Action
From Booty to Disaster
Like most members of the United States Civil Service, Snodgrass is an early riser. It’s a Civil Service tradition to be at work by seven o’clock, if not earlier, all the better, due to lack of a proper prior interval of sleep, to screw up royally for eight hours before going home. Not that the… Continue reading From Booty to Disaster
Say It Ain’t So, John!
When I arrived at the office this morning, and my private secretary told me that a gentleman named Blinkhorn from USO PAC had made an appointment for ten-thirty, I must confess I wondered what in the world the United Services Organization was doing running a political action committee. Was that even legal, I wondered, as,… Continue reading Say It Ain’t So, John!