Wednesday night about half past eight, as I relaxed with a literary magazine on the living room couch, my cat Twinkle, who had been performing her duty decorating a nearby antique chair, suddenly perked up her ears, looked at me with an unusually serious mien, and hissed. “Rosie,” Twinkle proclaimed, in her heavy feline accent,… Continue reading Internet Mata Hari Betrayed
Category: Society and Trends
Return of the Rest Room Rodeo Rider Romeo Ranger
Friday night, I worked late and the parking garage in my office building contained very few vehicles. Furthermore, as far as I could tell as I walked through it, it contained no people at all, not even any garage employees – I’d have to use my 24-hour access key to get out. Under those circumstances,… Continue reading Return of the Rest Room Rodeo Rider Romeo Ranger
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!
President Pistachio
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn’t very popular in the West, but he sure does get a lot of Western media coverage, and now I know why. All you have to do is contact his press secretary, Ali Salammi Hanjobbi, and ask for an interview. And so it was that I interviewed President Ahmadinejad early Wednesday… Continue reading President Pistachio
Mass. Hysteria
If I were choosing a restaurant for a business lunch, it wouldn’t be the Occidental. Not that the Occidental isn’t a good restaurant – it is, and a Washington tradition that’s been around so long, it nearly qualifies as a national historic site. The decor is nice, too, but the food, while expertly prepared and… Continue reading Mass. Hysteria