(The Fugs, live in 1966.) It certainly does not get less crazy as the time passes. What an astonishing decade it was. We have been talking about the events between the assassination of a President, and the murder of one of his many lovers on the towpath of the C&O Canal a year later. The […]

If you are of a certain age, you will remember Timothy Leary with a mixture of fascination, awe or disgust. He was the High Priest of Acid, the original Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out. He was an icon of the age, and the subject of the Moody Blues song “Legend of a Mind” […]

(Mary Pinchon Meyer on assignment for Mademoiselle Magazine). I made it to morning, and if the Lord has risen once more I cannot testify by personal vision, though I can say that it certainly seems reasonable. Life is singing with the sound of  the birds outside. For those who expressed concern yesterday, I did the […]

I like baseball, and I like the ritual of opening day, and I have been following he new season with great interest. I was planning to hook up with bro Spike and his son in Beantown and go to the Red Sox game at Fenway this coming weekend but I am not sure I can […]

(Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missiles in box launcher. Photo courtesy US Army). It was a lovely day in Arlington. We produce a lot of CO2 here, in the form of hot air being emitted from the various life forms of politicians, but it is a trace gas, after all, though possibly a contributor to the severe […]

(New Soviet Man and Woman down on the collective farm). I promised I was going to try to link the troubled history of the last century with this one. I don’t know if I am going to succeed in the amount of time we have this morning, but let’s have a go of it, shall […]

(Trofim Lysenko. Geneticist and Loon.) I am going to tell you a story this morning. It is about history, and it is real. It is also true, if that means anything these days. Oddly, I come to the same conclusions as one of the Moon Bats who populate the groves of academe. I mentioned Dr. […]

(Socotra’s offending left leg at Willow, with cane adjacent. Photo Jon-with-no-H). I think I still have time to deal with the North Koreans, their prospective launch of an allegedly peaceful ICBM, the deployment of a really cool X-Band radar to the region by the Missile Defense Agency, and the prospects that the Japanese are going […]

I got a note from my attorney, inquiring if I was on strong medication. He wrote: “You sounded like Joe McCarthy on Oxycontin in that piece yesterday.” I was at that moment on the cusp of creativity- or lack of it- as the darkness slowly melting away out the window, and fascinated by the forces […]

(First term Congressman Dick Nixon, on his way to consult with Prescott Bush.) March Madness has given way to April Ennui. I may look in at the game tomorrow night, or I may not. The headlines pretty much summed it up for me: “University of Kentucky fans overturn cars, burn couches to celebrate Final Four […]