Saturday Reads

While I do believe Steve Irwin deserved what he got because he was such an ass around animals, not respecting their space and ultimately paying the price for it, anything that would throw PETA into disrepute is fine with me.  A few of the tweets highly critical of the extremist outfit are here for your enjoyment while eating a hamburger and fries.

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Obituary:  Noted novelist W.E.B. Griffin, 89, died on February 12.

Even the name W. E. B. Griffin was a pseudonym; his real name was William E. Butterworth III.

His best-known books are under the Griffin name. The first was “The Lieutenants” (1982), which became the first installment in “The Brotherhood of War,” a nine-novel series that followed soldiers in the United States Army from World War II through the Vietnam War. Among his other series were “Badge of Honor,” about the Philadelphia Police Department, and “Clandestine Operations,” about the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Griffin’s writing was straightforward and a bit wry. In an early scene in “Top Secret” (2014) — the first book in the “Clandestine Operations” series — Lt. James Cronley is seated in a car with the young woman he will soon marry.

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Idiot entitled rich males get caught in a prostitution sting.
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