US Navy Gets Screwed by Fat Guy in Singpore and It Hurts

On a Friday night in a Norfolk, Virginia bar, a stone’s throw from the Navy’s most important base on the East Coast, you can meet a lot of miserable, drunken sailors.  But if you visit a bar, as I did, on a Friday night in Crystal City, Virginia, within spitting distance of the Pentagon, you… Continue reading US Navy Gets Screwed by Fat Guy in Singpore and It Hurts

Kim Jong Un Endures North Korea’s Failure to Launch

The unusually warm winter and early spring here in Washington this year resulted in some strange and wonderful things – the flowering cherry trees, which respond to temperature, came out in advance of the forsythia, which responds to the light cycle.  Crocuses, daffodils and tulips, which ordinarily bloom in a predictable sequence, all decided to… Continue reading Kim Jong Un Endures North Korea’s Failure to Launch

Solution to Rampant Indian Corruption Imminent

My first consultation after lunch this afternoon was with Dr. Chutiachod Haramijhaatrandkimoot Gaandukuthri of the Indian Embassy.  I immediately concluded that, he, too, had recently finished lunch himself, which, if the odor of his breath was any indication, consisted of something made with stale lentils, sour mangos, over-ripe kudampuli, moldy ratin jot and putrid charoli… Continue reading Solution to Rampant Indian Corruption Imminent