by Piper Bayard | Jun 2, 2014 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You
By Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Inspired by the HAMAS and UN summer camps in Gaza, we are asking, “Why should Palestinians have all the fun? For that matter, why should kids have all the fun?” Summer should be a time for fun and relaxation for everyone, but we all...
by Piper Bayard | May 25, 2014 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard America is not a location. America is an ideal. It is the dream of a country where the government answers to the people, and not the other way around. Because America is an ideal, Americans are not born. Rather, America, itself, is born anew with each...
by Piper Bayard | May 23, 2014 | The End is Near. . . .
By Piper Bayard Membership in Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest family of Yakuza, or Japanese mafia, has been falling. Due to economic difficulties, the gangsta life is apparently not enough of a recruiting magnet on its own. So the Yamaguchi-gumi now has a...
by Piper Bayard | May 19, 2014 | Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes On April 14, 2014, a Boko Haram gang attacked a girls school in Chibok, Nigeria. After killing the armed guards at the school, the gang kidnapped 234 girls and possibly a dozen adult staff members. The attack captured the attention of the Western media,...
by Piper Bayard | May 16, 2014 | The End is Near. . . .
By Piper Bayard Meet the oPhone. Now, now. I understand that its shape and name might lead to some improper conclusions, so let’s be clear right up front. The “o” in this phone is all about odors. Smells. This phone sends smells. Read all about it...
by Piper Bayard | May 14, 2014 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You
By Piper Bayard My writing partner, Jay Holmes, is a senior intelligence operative. He’s also my Underworld Google, and you can imagine the questions that I come up with for him while I’m tapping out our prose. . . . How would the antag kill a man so that it...
by Piper Bayard | May 12, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes On February 23, 2014, with the help of ethnic Russians in Crimea, Russia’s special forces and intelligence services stepped up their pro-Russian campaign to a degree that signaled that a Russian invasion and annexation of the Crimean...
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