(Still life of an improvised Spring country salad , featuring the first thing to emerge from the garden. Photo Socotra). It is often far easier in this business to simply leave the dead on the field and move on, day-by-day. Still, a shred of obligation to truth remains with the vestiges of honor, and periodically […]

Gentle Readers, Sometimes something comes over the transom that is worth passing along. For example, my Cajun pal Boats often chimes in with some interesting commentary from Louisiana, a component of what he calls “Greater Texas,” a mysterious world in which the follies of Washington seem completely dispensable. In the case of the below article […]

The excitement was building all morning as the weather guessers tried to determine if the crowd was going to need umbrellas at Nationals Park. There were the usual promotions to help whip up the emotions of the fans- dollar hotdogs and free wifi- though the t-shirts were held back to give out at Saturday’s game. […]

So, Old Jim called and asked if I was coming out to play- I had been home all day, and decided it would be nice to get out in the open air on the way to a dark bar. Jim said he had a late lunch at Willow for business purposes and was still there, […]

First, let me tell you that I am not lazy. I am not lazy. Nor drunk, like the sailors in the image above. Not yet, anyway. I was up this morning in plenty of time to do all sorts of great stuff that you will not see, not because it isn’t endlessly fascinating, but because […]

(Final Jepordy question Monday involved my homeland. Screen shot from an alert reader in Ann Arbor.) What a day yesterday! It was filled with the remarkable, and the absurd- a perfect April Fools Day. Here is how nuts it was: I met someone who had a good experience with the Affordable Care Act! Stranger things […]

  (UCONN ties up the Spartans on the way to the Final Four. Picture USA Today) Fabulous day yesterday- I mean, they don’t get any better, do they? Oh, sure, the sky was gun-metal gray, the temperature stayed in the 40s, though the fresh breeze made it feel colder, and bands of rain continued to […]

  You don’t know what you got till it’s gone, they say. I guess that is true, but there is the corollary, of course. Sometimes you don’t know what you have until you actually look at it. I had a great morning with a Pal from up north- did the Clark Brothers stop and navigated […]

  Gentle Readers, I am a little short on time this morning, I am meeting a pal at Clarks this morning, 1000 sharp, on Route 29 south to the farm for an acquisition matter, and need to get my butt in gear. There is so much to talk about this morning that I became quite […]

There is an air of desperation in the Nation’s capital, and it has nothing to do with the thick gray skies and the persistent chill rain and the stubborn refusal of the temperature to climb out of the fifties. The miasma of charge and counter-charge is so thick that it is palpable, and I think […]