Well, here it is, the federal holiday associated with Veteran’s Day, which was yesterday, November 11. Since that was a Sunday, everybody in Washington took today off so they could honor America’s veterans by observing our venerable national tradition of shopping all day for great bargains. Even men, who, for the most part, are not… Continue reading Aqua Dots, Caution
Category: Society and Trends
Brer General and Dat Dere Paki Briar Patch
As anyone who has read the previous post would surmise, I rescheduled all my Monday appointments in order to meet the Turkish Embassy’s rather aggressive deadline. And, since almost all of my clients are in a similar hurry, of course, today’s schedule was packed, starting at 7:30 in the morning all the way through to… Continue reading Brer General and Dat Dere Paki Briar Patch
Don’t Let This Happen to You
As I’ve noted in my Web log many times before, Washington is full of people who get up really early and rush downtown so they can be at their desks at 6:30 or 7:00 a.m., all the better to spend the rest of the day screwing up royally. I don’t suppose anyone reading today’s post would be terribly… Continue reading Don’t Let This Happen to You
Malibu Flame to Ignite DC
Yesterday around four thirty in the afternoon, my cell phone rang. Having left work early, I was walking down K Street to see my honey, Cerise, and help her take advantage of two mutual periods of downtime in our busy schedules by kicking off a serendipitous Monday tryst with some truly bodacious cocktails, courtesy of a… Continue reading Malibu Flame to Ignite DC
Primary Panic
At 10:30 this morning, a young fellow named Richard Kyrle, representing an organization that calls itself South Carolina First paid me a visit at my office downtown. He spent about 70 minutes waving his arms around in front of a PowerPoint presentation he projected on the retractable screen I had built into the ceiling. About… Continue reading Primary Panic