Establishment Republicans Bid Twee No Trump

Saturday night, I met Cerise at the Round Robin Bar for cocktails prior to attending a show at the nearby Warner Theater. In retrospect, maybe we should have gone to the Old Ebbitt Grill or POV instead, because the Round Robin turned out to be a total zoo of drunken Republicans, crying in their beer… Continue reading Establishment Republicans Bid Twee No Trump

Obama, Romney, RNC, DNC – Liars’ Pants of Fire Inspire Fact Checking Choir

My first consultation on Friday after lunch was with Diogenes Pangloss, principle Washington lobbyist for the International Association of Fact Checkers, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.  Flustered, disheveled and exhausted barely described his condition, as he flopped down on the couch in front of the picture window in my office. “Tom, I don’t mind telling you,”… Continue reading Obama, Romney, RNC, DNC – Liars’ Pants of Fire Inspire Fact Checking Choir

Utterly Bad, Good ‘n’ Ugly – Eastwood Makes Obama’s Day

This Labor Day, the humidity in Washington was so intense, when I woke up this morning, all the windows were dripping with condensation on the outside.  That’s because I had the air conditioning on the inside at a pleasant seventy-two degrees all night.  We are expecting the remnants of hurricane Isaac, too, but the family… Continue reading Utterly Bad, Good ‘n’ Ugly – Eastwood Makes Obama’s Day

Romney Sojourning Planet Ryan

Yet another working Saturday for Gretchen and me – and a solid nine-hour day it was, too.  I was so busy with consultations concerning aid to the Syrian rebels, terrorist attacks in the Sinai peninsula and anti-Muslim arson riots in Burma that Gretchen found it necessary to wait until my rather late lunch to tell… Continue reading Romney Sojourning Planet Ryan