Around ten yesterday morning, Gretchen began receiving calls from “some pushy woman named Parker,” as she put it, more or less demanding an immediate telephone consultation. Gretchen managed to work her in during my lunch break, which she accomplished by canceling my reservation at the Capital Grille and having a taxi deliver sushi from the… Continue reading Obama Pegs Annise Parker in an Awkward Position
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Send in the Congressmen… Don’t Bother, Steve Stockman’s Here
Around eight-thirty Friday night at the Round Robin Bar in the Willard Hotel, I chanced upon Jefferson Jackson Beauregard Clay III, a key member of Representative Steve Stockman’s staff. He was enjoying a specialty of the house – the branch water mint julep, and the one he was drinking might not have been his first… Continue reading Send in the Congressmen… Don’t Bother, Steve Stockman’s Here
Virginia Catholic Church Excommunicates the Girl Scouts
My dear sister Rose and I have lunch together about once a month – on me, of course, as regular readers of this Web log would readily surmise. Yesterday, she selected Tosca, on F Street. She started off with prosciutto di Parma con cavoletti di Brussels e pecorino pinzani tartufo “riserva” and I with guazzetto… Continue reading Virginia Catholic Church Excommunicates the Girl Scouts
The ICE Men Bungleth Custody of Jakadrien Turner
Last night, Cerise and I dropped by the Round Robin Bar at the Willard Hotel to enjoy some of their exquisite cocktails before the theater. After we had ordered, she surveyed the crowd, then leaned close, speaking softly. “See that fellow over there?” Cerise asked. “The one drinking alone? That’s Bletchley. I know his wife. … Continue reading The ICE Men Bungleth Custody of Jakadrien Turner