Call it claptrap, call it bile, call it a bilious swill of shark-infested straciatelli, but when all else fails this stuff cuts the mustard, and we're got the hate mail to prove it. What we have here, collected for the first time, is what V.V. Panno calls the drongo journalism of Michael Thomas, the (disgraced) Caribbean correspondent and Religious Editor (ret.) of Rolling Stone when it had clout.