Donald Kendall is dead….at 99. This Blogger was busy being a bum in Larkspur, California, when he was recruited by a smooth-talking professional Recruiter. He told this Blogger that he had the perfect position for this Blogger, in Manhattan, Gotham City, on Park Avenue.   They flew this Blogger to New York, and he was interviewed. At the ultimate interview, Mr. Kendall, the chief honcho at PEPSICO, walked in, looked him over, shook his hand and approved a job offer.   The legendary actress Joan Crawford was still alive at the time. She had been married to a former President of PepsiCo. She hated Mr. Kendall’s guts.   She had an office in the Park Avenue building; when she was in the city, one of the chief duties of this recruited wunderkind were to bring her endless bottles of vodka. Mr. Kendall had been white haired since he was a teenager; Ms. Crawford called him WHITE FANG.   People often ask this Blogger what did Ms. Crawford look like? He could never reply, for ...

In 1973, the Chilean Army, under General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the left wing government of Salvador Allende. What amazed this Blogger, and still amazes this Blogger was the pent-up ferocity within the Chilean armed forces.  The Chilean Military had been a paragon of civic virtue, above coups. Yet it not only completed a successful, bloody coup against its own democratically elected  government, but the coup was particularly ferocious. The Chilean Military launched a SAVAGE coup; it is comparable to the well disciplined German Army of World War I, which not only invaded poor little Belgium, but raped poor little Belgium. Allende committed suicide. " SANTIAGO, Chile – A scientific autopsy has confirmed that Chilean President Salvador Allende committed suicide during the 1973 coup that toppled  his socialist government, court officials announced on Tuesday. British ballistics expert David Prayer said Allende died of two shots fired from an as...