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What to Do if Your Company’s Holiday Party Lacks Alcohol

What happens when you let your communications department throw your holiday party? Why, the boss gets roasted, of course.

Which is exactly what happened, three years ago, in the Science and Technology Directorate of the Homeland Security Department (where I work). The boss, Undersecretary Jay Cohen, has since left S&T, but his alter ego, Paul Stregevsky, remains.

The song, “Sovereign of S&T,” parodies “When I Was a Lad” from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, H.M.S. Pinafore.