(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 […]

I am supposed to be on an airplane this morning, but I am not. I had to back out of the big trade show out west because I am not confident in my ability to navigate the tender mercies of the TSA security process with my cane and knee brace, much less horse around a […]

  (State Department Official and Soviet Spy Alger Hiss in handcuffs. He dined out on his innocence for decades after. Photo AP.)   I was sitting with Mac last night at Willow. We are trying to get him out when he feels up to it, and he is, of course, a rock star to the […]