Updates!

Castro's Folly is now 50,000 words.

To Survive the Earth, that's what I'm calling this thing now, is in its second round of editing.

Interestingly an article of mine was just rejected by a magazine that's been holding onto to it for a while. The editor and I had an amiable discussion about the issue. The piece was about Nixon and Cambodia and necessarily, I thought, covered a lot of the political machinations in the White House and Pentagon. One scene followed Anthony Lake, later Bill Clinton's NSA Adviser, resigning in protest:

Al Haig: You can't resign.
Lake: Fuck you, Al, I just did!

And Kissinger seemed to just gobble up everything in the article, just like in real life.  There was a great scene in the TV show Family Ties, where Alex P. Keaton gets two Goldfish. Uber Republican Wall Street man that he is, APK names his goldfish Kissinger and Agnew.  Toward's the end we get this:

'Bad news, Dad.'
'What?'
'Kissinger ate Agnew.'

Anyway....