HORSERACING IS A BIG DEAL IN KENTUCKY, and the Kentucky Derby is the pinnacle of the genre. The event is steeped in tradition that features the finest horses, betting, mint juleps, and beautiful women wearing absurd hats. Possessed of an abiding fondness for two of the four, I was thrilled to be…

A recent Wednesday night, on a business trip to Los Angeles, a colleague and I had a bite to eat at the hotel restaurant. I returned to my room about 10:15 -- to find it ransacked. My laptop was the first thing whose absence I noticed. "I must have put it somewhere else," I said to myself, though…