Gentle Readers, I was almost compelled to do a Swamp Postcard update on the events that have transpired since I pecked out the note from yesterday. The surprise and polemics that followed the announcement of Associate Justice Kennedy’s retirement was revealed shortly after transmission of the weekly….and then was allowed in short order by the […]

There really is no need to take down all the street signs identifying us as The Swamp, though it would better be described as a Miasma this week, the mists and mysteries are very deep. The Supreme Court still lives by the old rhythms of the sleepy southern town nestled to the muddy bosom of […]

Well, the good news is that we finally have a message for people to campaign on this November. I think it is “Kids in Cages,” which resonates with all the parents out there (pro and con). It is not that I haven’t complained about whiplash here in The Swamp, but this was remarkable. There we […]

It was the 19th of June, 1865. The blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico glittered in the brilliant sun. The sand was white as sugar on the barrier island. Major General Gordon Granger, late of the Army of the Cumberland, read General Order #3 to the people of the former Confederate city of Galveston, […]

It is Flag Day, and the President’s birthday. And the release of a political stink bomb. Well, thank goodness we don’t have to talk about th G7 or North Korea any more. I guess it was a factor of the air transit times to the Straits of Malacca. There was too much to process about […]

I feel like I have whiplash, almost as severe as that suffered by the politicians, pundits and production crews who crossed twelve time zones to create and cover the events in Singapore. This morning, the President is home after spending literally days on Air Force ONE and US diplomats are still strewn across greater Asia. […]

They call Korea the Land of the Morning Calm. It is a historical term, referring to the whole peninsula, not the two bits with which we are familiar. It has been anything but calm in my experience in that part of the world, and that is why I went to bed early. Twelve time zones […]