I like a nice bagel with smoked salmon once in a while, but it’s getting harder and harder to find wild caught Nova Scotia smoked salmon these days, and Nova salmon’s the best and wild caught fish is the only fish I will buy. If I want to consume the flesh of an animal that’s… Continue reading Bush to History: Don’t Misunderestimate Me
Category: Politics and Law
French Post Card Industry on Verge of Cancellation
As Fate and my appointment schedule would have it, I was sufficiently close by the Willard Hotel around lunch time, and after dining had about an hour to kill at the Round Robin Bar. There I spied Phil McCrakin, principal lobbyist for the Association of American Pornographers. Well, how about that, I thought to myself… Continue reading French Post Card Industry on Verge of Cancellation
Rod & Roland vs. Tom, Dick & Harry
Yesterday afternoon around two, Gretchen told me she had received an inquiry from somebody on Capitol Hill regarding my availability for an appointment later in the day. “They were really rushed and sounded kind of confused,” she related, “but when I told them you had three-thirty through five open, they said make it for three-thirty,… Continue reading Rod & Roland vs. Tom, Dick & Harry
One Card Monte
Early yesterday evening, as I relaxed in the study at my home in Great Falls, Virginia reading the Outlook section of the Washington Post, the doorbell rang. Whereas the living room was full of people attending one of Veronica’s holiday parties, I didn’t bother getting up – after all, the damn door bell had been… Continue reading One Card Monte
The Princess and the Peon
Maybe most folks passed this morning thinking about impending Yuletide festivities, their loved ones, children’s gifts or a cheery fire and some eggnog amid tonight’s Christmas lights – certainly I did. But I also know for sure that one particular denizen of Capitol Hill had something entirely different on her mind. Around nine, as scheduled, I… Continue reading The Princess and the Peon