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Mark to Market, to Buy a FED SWINE
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | October 5th 2008
This afternoon started out as pretty much a perfect Sunday afternoon. I’d made eggs Benedict for Cerise, Veronica and myself, and we were lounging in the living room, sipping blood orange mimosas and cappuccinos. Twinkle purred softly in my lap read more
Plan B… and C… and D…
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | September 30th 2008
About ten minutes after the House of Representatives rejected the Administration’s plan to bail out the Secretary of the Treasury’s cronies to the tune of seven hundred billion dollars Monday afternoon, the telephone on my desk rang. It was Sp read more
Super Jew Faces the Plotz of No Return
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | September 24th 2008
No sooner did I get home tonight than my land line telephone rang. Not too many people have that number, I guarantee, and I could see from the caller ID who it was, so, of course, I answered: Tom: Chairman Bernanke? Is that you? Bernanke: Gevalt! read more
Idiot’s Delight
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | September 19th 2008
Things were a bit slow at my office today, and during one of the dead spots, Gretchen crept in from the reception area and caught me visiting Second Life on my Linux AMD 64. “Mr. Collins?” Gretchen spoke softly as she sat down in the chair next read more
There’s Such a Thing as Doing Your Job Too Well
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | September 10th 2008
Around Washington, anyway, black helicopters almost always fly around in pairs. Rarely, I have seen one, and even less commonly, three of them at once. Therefore, I must confess, when strolling down K Street early this afternoon, I was astounded read more
Tom Meets “The Meanest Man in America”
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | July 23rd 2008
If a client wants it, and can afford it, I have no problem with travel. To get me live and in person, just about anywhere in the world, all one need do is pay my bills for travel and lodging, plus eight hours a day or fraction thereof while going t read more
The Loan Shark Who Dared Not Speak His Name
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | July 17th 2008
I had a visit from a client who wished to remain anonymous today. I get them occasionally, and, quite frankly, I’ve found that their envelopes of cash, velvet sacks of platinum Maple Leaf sovereigns, Prada bags crammed chock full of glistening Kr read more
Old Soldiers Never Lie, It Just Sounds That Way
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | July 7th 2008
Henry Clay, who died 156 years ago this last June 29, contributed quite a few things to American history. Some put him in the top ten politicians to ever hold federal office. The man certainly kept busy, that’s for sure, almost single-handedly read more
Dragnet Snares 400 Alleged Weasels
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | June 22nd 2008
Last night, Cerise and I dined at a pricey and elegant restaurant which recently opened on K Street. For reasons that will soon become evident, however, I won’t mention the name of that establishment in this post. It came as a shock, I must say, read more
British Physicist Ponders Scientific Mystery
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | April 5th 2008
I’ve always wondered about the English tradition of hyphenated last names. The whole concept strikes me as a perfect example of vain impracticality. As if a woman named Chuzzlewit didn’t have enough problems already - could changing her last read more
Bond Fire of the Securities
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | March 31st 2008
My dear sister Rose and I got together for lunch downtown today. She selected Tosca, on F Street, and ordered the Tuscan lamb. I had the thymed rabbit ragu. “Tom,” she gratefully told me between bites, “you have no idea how good something l read more
Thailand Blog: Culture, Society, Lifestyle, News, and Insight abo…
Thailand, Southeast Asia, and Global Cyber journal at Thaisk… | March 12th 2008 by Jao Moragoat
Doing a google search with the keywords, ‘Thailand Blog,’ the Siamerican was quite disappointed to find a hit neither for this web log nor the Siamerican in any of the top 100 results. Being that there were dozens upon dozens of irreleva read more
Thaksin Shinawatra returns to Thailand: 17 month exile is over
Thailand, Southeast Asia, and Global Cyber journal at Thaisk… | February 27th 2008 by Jao Moragoat
The latest breaking news in Thailand, Southeast Asia, and even the globe for that matter is regarding Thailand’s longest reigning elected leader, Thaksin Shinawatra. The disposed prime minister turned English football team owner-manager has f read more
Will There Be Blood?
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | February 14th 2008
I didn’t really want to accept Roscoe’s invitation for Cerise and me to party with him at Dick Cheney’s Undisclosed Location the night of Valentine’s Day. When I told Cerise, though, she seemed to be convinced that visiting a place that cal read more
Yet Another Halfwitted Options Orgy!
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | February 2nd 2008
I had just returned to my office from lunch Friday and was looking forward to getting some work done during a prolonged period of undisturbed time when Veronica plunked down in front of my private secretary and demanded to see me. I said send her i read more
Vive La Whizzers Grenouille
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | January 28th 2008
Cerise and I slept in on Sunday, arising around nine for a breakfast of cage-free eggs Benedict, broiled organic giant pummelo with Barbados turbinado, home made miniature almond croissants, cappuccino and Taittinger mimosas with blood orange juice I read more
Tickle Me Cash Flow
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | January 17th 2008
It snowed again today here in Washington, setting off the usual state of irrational panic in the populous. I had gone in to work downtown very early in order to accommodate a client who, like a great many in this city, confuses getting out of bed a read more
And Another One Bites the Dust
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | January 7th 2008
About ten this morning, I met with an FBI agent bound for Sudan. He’s headed over there with some other FBI agents and FBI technicians to support a contingent of Department of State Security Agents investigating the untimely demise of a fellow na read more
Buddy Can You Spare a Trillion Dimes?
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | December 22nd 2007
Cerise got two free tickets to last night’s performance of Christmas Carol 1941 at Arena Stage, so I agreed to meet her at Hogate’s for dinner before the theater. Now, Hogate’s is hardly the best seafood restaurant in Washington, but it’s n read more
Red State Master Debate
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | December 12th 2007
I had just finished with my last client appointment, and was preparing to leave work early today, when my private secretary let me know that I had a telephone call. It was Paisley, my nephew Jason’s latest girlfriend. Paisley: Mr. Collins? To read more
Happy New Year!
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | October 1st 2007
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 ha read more
Al-Maliki and the Forty Thousand Thieves
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | August 25th 2007
Being my private secretary is not a job for the faint-hearted, and mine is as tough as nails. But even she has her limits, and those were nearly breached on Friday afternoon, when, between meetings, she knocked on my office door with a well-control read more
Severely Surreal Safari
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | July 10th 2007
Yesterday when I got back to the office after lunch, my private secretary put through a call from Mr. Punda Limpopo, a Finance and Economics Attache stationed here in Washington at the Embassy of Zimbabwe. I can’t say I was pleased to hear from h read more
Bombs Bursting Over There
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | July 4th 2007
Cerise and I romped until dawn, so it wasn’t all that pleasant to be awakened at 8:38 this morning by a telephone call, but Caller ID said it was from my sister Rose, therefore filial duty required that I pick up instead of letting it roll over int read more
You Are What You Eat
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | May 21st 2007
I was relaxing in the hot tub with the New York Times on Sunday afternoon, when my dear little brother Rob Roy came walking up the deck steps. He took a seat in one of the chairs I have set up around the hot tub and pulled a long face, waiting for read more
Waltzing the Journal
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | May 3rd 2007
Wednesday evening, I worked late downtown, and after a particularly stressful meeting with some gentlemen from Africa, I decided to stop by the Library Bar at the Melrose Hotel to unwind. Nobody can say that the Melrose is anything less than first- read more
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