For road warriors: “We live in a world that never sleeps.”
Reprising Blawg Review #65, The World Cup Blawg Review, July 10, 2006, and in honor of two passed road warriors, Ed and […]
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John Ralston Pate (1944-2015)
American expat lawyer John Pate was a friend of mine. I met him in 1998, in Vancouver, Canada, and saw him last […]
Greenfield on Ferguson.
Two days ago was the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a black suburb of St. […]
One of us: Bless you, Mr. Trump.
Trump is what happens when we Yanks look in the mirror: good, bad and occasionally a bit ugly. According to NBC/Survey Monkey […]
Journée du 10 août.
Louis XVI: My God, it’s a revolt! Duke de la Rochefoucauld: No, sir, it’s a revolution. –2 years earlier. Two hundred and […]
Washington Examiner this week: “Who Can Beat Hillary?”
Right-leaning political journalism magazine Washington Examiner, a DC-based weekly with daily online reporting, is relatively new, having begun life as a newspaper […]
Environmental Protection Magazine: Is fracking worth it?
I once wrote a column for this “pro-fossil fuels/industry” publication for environmental professionals based in Texas. Do visit a feature story last […]
And they’re off: Trump plus 9.
Washington Post: Fox News announces its final lineup for August 6 debate. Do watch Ohio’s John Kasich. On a good night, Kasich […]
Coal: Still standing. Barely.
In the Saturday, August 1 Washington Post,”New EPA rule on greenhouse gases the latest blow to King Coal“. Excerpts: When coal was […]
Scouting changes again; as usual, the Washington Blade is there.
I was a Boy Scout, and eventually an Eagle Scout, growing up in suburban Chicago and Cincinnati. What I learned in scouting […]
Scouting.
On the day it happened, the enduring the Washington Blade, almost an underground publication when it started and now celebrated Boy Scouts […]
Just another prisoner of rock ‘n’ roll.
Junior Walker: “Shoot ’em ‘for he run now.”
Duke Chanticleer 1975: Gonzoid Specimen No. 1.
People don’t want to accept that about themselves, that they’re part of the general rot, and they react to that angrily, which […]
Peirce Mill, 185 years in DC’s Rock Creek Park.
Peirce Mill in 1918. Issac Peirce, a millwright, built it in either 1820 or 1829. The mill runs again where it started: […]
On second thought, do see Trainwreck (with Amy Schumer) so we can face the enemy together.
Two days ago we posted about the movie Trainwreck which celebrates backfired male Metro-sexualism as well as crude, dumb, fat women getting […]
Trainwreck is right.
On Sunday I saw “Trainwreck” starring Amy Schumer at a movie theatre in DC’s Gallery Place. If you’re interested in seeing a […]
Chicago boy continues to make good: Happy Birthday, Mr. Hemingway.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899″“July 2, 1961) at the stone mansion on Whitehead Street in Key West with one of the […]
Politico’s European Edition: The West’s never-ending political correctness wankfest now aims to make America’s lamest generation ever even weaker.
Personally, I wish I had more time to blog about certain issues but work keeps interfering. “Political correctness” is one. PC culture […]
Complaints against business clients–even “bad” and poorly–grounded complaints–carry messages about problems you can address now.
Litigation against a business client–even frivolous or ill-advised litigation–will usually cast a spotlight on things you can fix now. You don’t believe […]
Help Wanted: Texas local counsel in Dallas-FW-Arlington area.
Singers of songs and dreamers of plays Build a house no wind blows over. The CPAs“”tell me why a hearse horse snickers […]
Dear Network Solutions
Email earlier today: Network Solutions: Can you please expedite our renewal of our main domain so we can have our website back? […]
Pantheon: Ms. Mulligan.
Two weeks ago, London-born actress Carey Hannah Mulligan turned 30. She’s already a stage and screen standout internationally, and a national treasure […]
A college roommate’s labor of love: Peirce Mill, nearly 200 years in Rock Creek Park.
Above: Peirce Mill in 1918. Issac Peirce, a millwright, built it in either 1820 or 1829. The mill runs again where it […]
71st anniversary of D-Day.
On June 6, 1944, 160,000 troops from America, Canada, Britain, Canada and Poland landed on a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast […]
If you can’t get online, how do you find a job?
First, see our post Round 2: “One Night, One Person” and related links. As those links show, we’re still testing the waters […]
White Boy Action Wear? Hey, Beavis. Isn’t that like, uh, raciest?
Twenty years ago I started a company called Black Dog to sell tees, sweatshirts, jackets and the like under the name of […]
The Bible for New Age Imposters & Theives: Austin Kleon’s “Steal Like An Artist”.
Steal like an asshole? I was given this 2012 bestseller on Saturday by a Connecticut Avenue bookseller (there are more than one) […]