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Jim gave me this book to read recently, and I’ve finally finished it. (Have I ever mentioned how slow of a reader I am?) Anyway, Hunting the Jackal is the story of Billy Waugh, the archetypal American Warrior. This book primarily covers Mr. Waugh’s service with the Special Forces during Vietnam and [...]

I’ve just finished reading Blowing My Cover : My Life as a CIA Spy, and I must say that I generally agrree with most of the reviews I’ve read of this book. Oddly enough, I’d seen several reviews where one reviewer hated it, but another loved it…but both for the same reasons. I [...]

It’s my own fault really. There is a plastic retainer that serves two purposes for the fuel door. First, it holds the thing on the car. Second, it provides a pair of tines to hold the spring the holds the door open or shut. Well, those two tines had broken off, [...]