Crusader Babbitt – Obama Develops Foot-in-Mouth Disease

My ten o’clock consultation today was Dr. Batroun Ibn Himaar, an econometrician at the World Bank. For about an hour and ten minutes, things went pretty much as I expected while we discussed the probabilistic projections of international currency exchange rates based on a stochastic optimization model of petroleum prices. But at the conclusion of… Continue reading Crusader Babbitt – Obama Develops Foot-in-Mouth Disease

Site of the Resurrection Gets an Unholy Water Bill

Yesterday afternoon at three o’clock, I welcomed Bishop Skatasta Moutrasou, Legate Extraordinary to the United States of America at Washington DC for his Holiness Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem to my office.  While Bishop Moutrasou did not come arrayed in ecclesiastical garb, wearing instead a bespoke Savile Row suit, his long, flowing beard readily… Continue reading Site of the Resurrection Gets an Unholy Water Bill