The Show Won’t Go On
Members of the Wallenda family falling off the high wire and plummeting to their deaths — repeatedly. Orchestra conductors having heart attacks in the middle of symphonies. Owen Hart dropping from the rafters in a wrestling stunt gone wrong. These are just some...
They Can’t Seem To Make Jack Falcone
A decade ago ago, I read a book called “Making Jack Falcone,” about an undercover FBI agent named Joaquin Garcia who successfully infiltrated the Gambino crime family, passing himself off as Sicilian even though he was born in Cuba. But that’s not...
Book Review: “The Space Barons”
I just finished Christian Davenport’s book, “The Space Barons,” in which he writes about the billionaire tech guys whose obsession with space and rockets has changed the business from one run by a government monopoly (NASA) to an industry in which...
Book Review: “Click Here To Kill Everybody”
If I were still doing radio shows, I would happily welcome Bruce Schneier back as a guest. He’s a security expert who I first spoke with when he revealed the uselessness of the TSA’s screening procedures at airports, which he labelled “security...