When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle’s on a poodle and the poodle’s eating noodles, they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle. – Representative Lois Frankel, D-Florida,The Congressional Record, Saturday, September 28, 2013 Ladies and gentlemen, you can’t make this stuff up. … Continue reading Tea Party Master Debaters Vow to Beat Boehner – Later
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Police Chief Mark Kessler – Unsafe At Any Caliber
The City Zen restaurant is located in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, on Maryland Avenue here in Washington. This means, of course, that the hotel guests come there to dine, and so it was that last night, as Cerise and I were enjoying our desserts of raspberry pavolova and tarte tatin, respectively, prior to departing for an… Continue reading Police Chief Mark Kessler – Unsafe At Any Caliber
Ted Cruz and the Natural Born Hypocrites
After dinner at Rasika followed by a night of club hopping in Adams Morgan, Cerise and I slept late this morning. I prepared breakfast in bed – duck eggs Benedict, featuring freshly made hollandaise sauce and grilled New Zealand fern fiddle heads with organic Canadian bacon, accompanied by hand-squeezed Barcelona blood orange and Veuve Clicquot… Continue reading Ted Cruz and the Natural Born Hypocrites
DOJ Scandals Test Whether Eric Holder is a Quitter
Last night, Cerise and I attended a Ravel concert by the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. But before that, we had a dinner date at the Capitol Grille on Pennsylvania Avenue, where I awaited her arrival at a table for two. Then, more or less out of nowhere, Hoffmann appeared. He’s a successful… Continue reading DOJ Scandals Test Whether Eric Holder is a Quitter
Echoes of Rand Paul’s Filibuster Continue to Resound
Gretchen demands at least one Saturday a month off from work, and to be honest, I’m sort of glad she does. For me, this particular Saturday afternoon, as it turned out, was just myself at my home in Great Falls, Virginia, with nobody there for company but my cat, Twinkle. My girlfriend, Cerise, had decided… Continue reading Echoes of Rand Paul’s Filibuster Continue to Resound