These are hardly the Dog Days of August. To the contrary, it has been cool and rainy. I swear I have been chilled each time I have been in the pool since Memorial Day. Despite the continued chaos of the Mueller probe, the wars are still in progress and the debt continuing to press upward, […]

(Remains arrive at Osan. the flag is that of the United Nations, under which US forces served. Image from Pacific Stars & Stripes) If you don’t know (or have forgotten) your Korean geography, Osan is the big USAF base about an hour south of Seoul. When I was assigned to US Forces Korea in 1980, […]

(Mary returns to DC. Photo by Jamie). In the old DC, the one before air conditioning, August was traditionally the time everyone went back to there districts, or the shore. I don’t recall a milder Swamp summer in my thirty-something years living here (counting made me use four digits) and I am either getting more […]

Quite a week, wasn’t it? The American President is back on the ground here in The Swamp after a breathtaking turn on the NATO-UK-Russia relationship front. I watched most of the coverage and was mystified as it unfolded. The Strzock, Page and Mueller indictments last week all cascaded as the President excoriated Germany for fair […]

I know, I know. The chaos keeps coming, and it is hard to stay abreast of it all. This week’s account of the Swamp Follies includes the defenestration of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator, the realization that the North Koreans are doing what they always do (lying), and the sad observation that the state of […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow put his fingers on something I think is profound in his response to yesterday’s fanciful piece on garden Gnomes. I went out this morning to ask Al about his thoughts as the resident house Gnome. He was phlegmatic: Re: Gnomes I had the same reaction to this latest in America’s unending crazytrain […]

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, […]