The pool closes at Labor Day, and Kuba the Polish Life guard will be free of us again. No word on whether the Big Pink Condo Board will authorize two weekends in September for swimming. Constant vigilance is required. Also necessary in the inexorable approach of the mid-term election. I ha to flee the city […]

Sunday is going to see an influx of left and right wing demonstrators on Sunday. Apparently this is the second iteration of the pro-and-counter demonstrations last year in Charlottesville, Virginia, the home of Mr. Jefferson’s University of Virginia. One demonstrator was killed in the clash. This time the right wingers have secured a permit to […]

It is early August and I am rode hard and put away wet, which is actually part of the paradox of life. I can sim vigorously for an hour and then barely limp back to my condo. Irritating. And worse, the pool will start to shut down Labor Day weekend with no week day swims […]

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 […]