Category: NSA

My crazy idea

By Bill Shein February 20, 2015 It can’t be called “spring cleaning” when the temperature outside is minus 5 degrees, but last week I was reorganizing my basement and found a file box neatly labeled, “1989 Correspondence, A-L.” Yes, I…

Everybody’s Diary

By Mickey Friedman July 22, 2014 I had a lovely dinner at the always Pleasant and Main in Housatonic with my dear friend Patricia. I had a delicious pasta and she had the terrific chicken. We talked about a lot…

Do You Still Have My Back?

By Mickey Friedman March 9, 2014 It’s not often I get a letter from President Obama. In big letters on the front of the envelope it asked: “Do you still have my back?” My legal name is Michael but my…

Pity The Paranoids

August 18, 2013 By Mickey Friedman Pity the paranoids. This has not been an easy time for those who think they’re being watched. Remember when we thought paranoids had lost touch with reality. That, deluded, they had constructed a world…

Secrets and Lies

July 6, 2013 By Mickey Friedman We are human. Fraught with frailty. Our failures are manifest. So it’s hard for me to believe that most of us have nothing to hide. That, because we’re not terrorists, we should not complain…