I’m not really a pet person. Growing up in a penthouse in New York, in Little Italy, it’s not like a family dog would have been practical. And what’s more, my parents despised anyone who kept a dog in New York City – it struck them as impractical, cruel to the dog and, of course,… Continue reading The Twinkle Defense
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Friday the 13th – Power of the Internet
Tires screeched in my driveway. Someone pounded at my front door. WTF, I thought, slipping the custom 9 mm magnum auto cabriolet pistol stuffed with an oversize clip of depleted uranium bullets I keep in my bedroom into the silk-lined holster sewed into the tight, wide band of the full cammo Canadian commando jumpsuit that… Continue reading Friday the 13th – Power of the Internet
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I left an outgoing announcement on the voice mail stating that my office was closed for Good Friday, and I’m pleased to report that even in Washington DC, nobody was sufficiently boorish to leave a message demanding a meeting. But there are limits to discretion and good taste here, and quite narrow ones at that. … Continue reading 2 Hot 2B 4Got
Go Fly With Them
After spending three days going over a stack of redacted photocopies concerning some kind of aircraft, I finally met with a couple of shady fellows who ostensibly represented some organization somewhere that wanted my advice about avionics. It surely wasn’t Deltana Associates, Inc. – no, DAI had “front company” written all over it. We met… Continue reading Go Fly With Them
If You Believe in Salmonella…
Certainly one of the most popular forms of corruption among the federal civil service in Washington consists simply of arranging for contractors to do one’s work in order that one have six or seven hours a day free at the office to make money doing something else. When that is accomplished, there are a number… Continue reading If You Believe in Salmonella…