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Robert Trippet

“Stealing From the Rich: The Home-Stake Oil Swindle” by David C. McClintick (Evans, 1977) recounts how a Tulsa, Oklahoma lawyer named Robert Trippet masterminded the most lucrative Ponzi scheme of the 20th century....

Clutter

We’re moving from the East Bay to the Wine Country, one carload at a time. I promised Rosie I would bring all her possessions and not try to distinguish between the useless stuff and the treasures. With a little help from...

Mission Bay Backgrounder

My medical problem wasn’t as grave as Bruce Anderson’s (described in the AVA February...

Two Words Instead of One

I always read those cute little lists in Harpers and it dawns on me that I might have one to contribute. Over the years in my AVA column I’ve remarked the replacement of one word for two in modern American usage. For...

Jane Fonda’s Victim Act

Seen you in the supermarket you and Lily Tomlin got a big hit and leaning in for Hillary I...

Stop Slandering Crows!

Consider the origins of the word “caucus” in the Oxford Dictionary of English...

Warren Commission Debunked From Another Angle

“…Was a matter of timing and the timing was right” –Bob Dylan, Murder Most Foul...

Inventory: ‘GI Papers’

We are moving to a smaller house and I’m deciding what not to bring. A drawer in a file cabinet contains leaflets and newspapers from the Vietnam War era. These are destined for a library and I’m taking a last look....

The trumped-up tragedy of ‘Cannabis Use Disorder’

By Fred Gardner O’Shaughnessy’s News Service Thanks to Benson Hausman, MD, for...

Author: Fred Gardner