About ten this morning, I met with an FBI agent bound for Sudan. He’s headed over there with some other FBI agents and FBI technicians to support a contingent of Department of State Security Agents investigating the untimely demise of a fellow named John Granville, an American and an employee of the US Government, who… Continue reading And Another One Bites the Dust
Category: Art and Culture
The Treasure Trove of Ancient Egyptian Royalties
Whenever a client insists on an absurdly early time for a meeting, I remember Rene Descarte, who never got out of bed before noon. Who knows, maybe the human race would have been better off if he had been up at five-thirty every morning, diligently working on the management of his French country estate, counting… Continue reading The Treasure Trove of Ancient Egyptian Royalties
Happy New Year!
The baristas at local gourmet coffee shops here in the DC Metro area pulled a lot of extra shots for many of their regular customers this morning, as the resident hordes of federal contractors made bleary-eyed tracks for their office desks. They had all been up rather late for a Sunday in Washington, a town… Continue reading Happy New Year!
Motorvational Creativity
Regular readers of this Web log already know that the sub-prime mortgage crisis affected my dear sister Rose, her husband Hank and their children months ago. That was when her brother-in-law’s family defaulted on the mortgage to his McMansion, after which Hank and Rose took them in, striking a deal to split Hank and Rose’s… Continue reading Motorvational Creativity
Unsportsmanlike Behavior
It’s been an incredibly busy week, and more remarkable because it’s a week in July, and the stock market has traditionally waited until autumn to deflate the fantasies of greedy investors. The gods of commerce apparently decided to get started early this time, handing all those starry-eyed dreamers the stock market’s worst performance in five… Continue reading Unsportsmanlike Behavior