This morning, a certain Mike McAllister wrote to warn me:

Hi Brendan,

I noticed that you haven’t registered for the “Leveraging Technology to Solve the Top Regulatory Challenges of 2012” webinar this week, and wanted to send you one last reminder. I know you’d benefit from the content, so even if you can’t make the live event, register for it anyway, and we’ll send you the link to view the recorded version on your own time.

Wow! What an offer! I’ve always, always wanted to leverage technology to solve the top regulatory challenges of 2012—ever since I was a tiny chunk of meatloaf, suckling on my mama’s teat, leveraging technology to solve the top regulatory challenges of 1981. This webinar might be my dream come true!

But then again… what if this is some kind of scam? It’s the internet after all, and I’ve never heard of this Mike McAllister. Who knows what kind of shenanigans he might be up to?

It’s the mother of all dilemmas! What should I do?

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....