Those who broke their Oath, and those who kept it

By: Beaglescout (Diary)  |  February 17th at 08:00 AM  | 

Courtney Cook wrote an infuriating essay for Salon that exposed the contempt she held for her marital oath and her first husband, a soldier deployed in an overseas combat theatre when she left him. You’d be surprised how easy it is to leave a soldier on deployment. You can do it with a letter. (He can’t argue with you. He doesn’t have a phone.) If | Read More »

Donald E. Westlake and others, RIP

By: Beaglescout (Diary)  |  January 1st at 10:57 PM  | 

In 1979, J. Morgan Cunningham wrote a Signet paperback original titled Comfort Station. On the cover was a blurb from Donald E. Westlake, “I wish I had written this book!” The joke is that Westlake did write it under one of his many pseudonyms. Westlake left his manual typewriter for the last time on New Year’s Eve, 2008, at the age of 75. He died | Read More »