James Baar is a writer, international corporate communications consultant, blogger, corporate communications software developer, former business executive and Washington journalist...view moreJames Baar is a writer, international corporate communications consultant, blogger, corporate communications software developer, former business executive and Washington journalist and sometime college lecturer. He is the author of an earlier satirical novel on business and public affairs, The Great Free Enterprise Gambit; Spinspeak II: The Dictionary of Language Pollution; four books on politics and technology; and a forthcoming collection of short stories, The Real Thing and Other Tales. He is editor of the Spinspeak Letter weblog www.spinspeak.com. Baar is a graduate of Union College where he majored in philosophy. He and his wife and small dog, Fred the Affenpinscher, live in Providence, RI.view less