As regular readers of this Web log know, when my older sister Rose has a day off from work as a school teacher in Fairfax, Virginia, she often meets me for lunch at a good restaurant in downtown Washington. Today, however, she took a day off volunteering with the Kamala Harris for President campaign, which… Continue reading 2024 Election Crosses the Godwin Event Horizon
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Breaking News: Carlson Gets Tucked
As Beltane arrives here in the Washington suburbs, the honeysuckle and feral azaleas bloom and the deer in my back yard retreat into the protective, enveloping Virginia woods to drop their fawns, forsaking the sugar beets and carrots I have the lawn service put out for them to nibble. Meanwhile, everyone in America wonders if… Continue reading Breaking News: Carlson Gets Tucked
Walker Goes Long, Deep and Weird
It’s not particularly common for a professional athlete to end up on Capitol Hill, but it has happened, no doubt about that. In the House, Representative Anthony Gonzalez was a wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts, Representative Colin Allred was a linebacker with the Tennessee Titans, Representative Jack Kemp was the quarterback of the Buffalo… Continue reading Walker Goes Long, Deep and Weird
Hot Seat Chaps Scavino’s Kiester
As the end of of this month draws near, so approaches what I like to call the beginning of SuperNewHallowGivingMas, that extended period between the thirty-first of October and Super Bowl Sunday, where a plethora of festive occasions and holidays jostle one another, jammed into the calendar cheek by jowl, like shoppers at a Macy’s… Continue reading Hot Seat Chaps Scavino’s Kiester