But I was never a mastermind, or a mini-mind, and long before I even entered the secret world, I had an instinct towards fiction that made me a dubious fact-gatherer.
We will probably never know where those bitcoin went and whether or not Karpeles is a criminal mastermind or a fool.
In my "ObamaPhobia" presentation at Netroots Nation next Saturday, I aim to show how various campaign images in the traditional media echo more extreme right-wing hate imagery -- conveying Obama as a man with a covert, anti-American agenda, or a deliberate and calculated mastermind, or a closet Muslim and Islamic Manchurian candidate.
It doesn't take a foreign-policy mastermind or an evil genius to see that assassinating him could only result in increased hostilities between Iran and the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.
In fact, I've counted and mapped almost all the security cameras in Morningside Heights, not because I'm a criminal mastermind or an advocate for privacy issues but because the number is central to my latest film, a short entitled, ":/Run".
Bringing a loaded gun into a nightclub does not make one a criminal mastermind or even a menace to society, but it surely is reckless — especially if you end up firing it while trying not to spill a drink.
Lenny Dykstra, when he played for the Mets and Phillies, was a smarter player than most fans at the time gave him credit for, though that doesn't make him a genius or a criminal mastermind or anything.
After half a century, seven cancellations and $700m, a mission to test his theory about the universe has finally confirmed that the man was a mastermind - or at least half proved it.
Was she a criminal mastermind or the victim of circumstance?
In the regional semifinals, the Cavaliers could well face fourth-seeded Kansas State, whose coach, Bruce Weber, is a defensive mastermind, or fifth-seeded Wisconsin, which has size all around.
A military mastermind (or scourge, depending on your perspective), Nebuchadnezzar devastated the Phoenician city of Sidon, defeated Egypt's armies and, in 587 BC, sacked Jerusalem's Temple of Solomon Saddamm's adventures in Kuwait and Iran are well known.
