Seriously?

This is the personal website of a very interesting character. His name is Sam Sloan, and the internet has provided a means for him to loosely catalog his life story. Sloan grew up in a relatively affluent environment, his mother and father received their MD and JD degrees from the University of Iowa respectively. He attended UC Berkeley in the 60s as a Mathematics student, opting to broker stocks and bonds instead of completing the curriculum. In 1975, the Securities and Exchange Commission invalidates Sloan’s broker-dealer registration for alleged failure to maintain proper records. The matter eventually made its way to the US Supreme Court, where Sloan became the last person to successfully argue a case pro se (*). Council on the other side included Harvey Pitt, who later went on to chair the SEC from 2001-2003.

He is a class-A level chess players and has been elected to the USCF board (*). He’s written books on a variety of topics including the slave children of Thomas Jefferson (*), Chinese checkers (*), and the lexicon of Khowar (*). Sam played the role of “American hustler at Mama’s Club” in a 1984 movie shot in Japan (*). His DVDs on Afghanistan (*) and Origami (*) are surely worth their nominal price.

Sloan is thrice married and claims eight children with five different women, dispersed about the globe. He changed his name to “Mohammed Ismail Sloan” for a while, after meeting one of his wives [Hanzagool] in the Hindu-Kush mountains of Afghanistan. In fact, Sloan was chilling in Afghanistan the day after the 1978 military coup. He was arrested, managed to escape from prison, found his way to the United Arab Emirates, where he worked as an English-language writer for a local newspaper. At some point back in the states, Sloan lost a custody battle to a Baptist family in the Falwell mold (his words), and chose to flee the country with his mother. More recently, Sam sought the libertarian party nomination for Governor of New York (*).