Prisoner of Rock ‘n’ Roll #1: Dancing in small spaces.
Below during the performance of “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” at the May 2005 Cream reunion concerts in London, a man in his 30s […]
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Let’s abolish the popular election of American state judges.
See Mark Stern’s article in Slate, Justice for Sale: SCOTUS is poised to make judicial elections even more corrupt. As we’ve urged […]
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921-2014)
Bradlee with Washington Post owner Katherine Graham in 1971. Ben Bradlee’s death saddens me and many, many other people. In the 1970s […]
“It’s nice to be Dr. Ruth…”
Long story, but yesterday morning I had breakfast here in New York with Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth) who at 86 is just […]
Photoshop This: Say it ain’t so, Tom Corbett.
Since 2011, a former law partner of mine, Tom Corbett, a first-rate trial lawyer and past U.S. Attorney, has been the Republican […]
October 15, 1764
On this day in 1764, Edward Gibbon, historian and Member of Parliament, saw friars singing in the ruins of the Temple of […]
Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Chiem
Melrose Market, Seattle, 5:00 pm, October 11, 2014. Officiant: John Daniel Hull
Ben Bradlee Story #2: “What did you do in WWII, Ben?”
In our series, and also from the June 6, 2012 edition of Vanity Fair: in 1984, the Washington Post published data it […]
Want to find out what pros think of your unpublished novel?
Double Bridge Publishing Company, Inc.. Double Bridge is a new online publishing service based in Washington, D.C. launched last month by Florida […]
Authentic and American: Ben Bradlee Story #1
Earlier this week we weighed in briefly on the life of former Washington Post managing editor Bill Bradlee, now 93 and ailing. […]
American Authentic: Ben Bradlee is 93, ailing and irreplaceable.
You had a lot of Cuban or Spanish-speaking guys in masks and rubber gloves, with walkie-talkies, arrested in the Democratic National Committee […]
My 10 Most Influential Rock ‘n’ Roll Tracks
Forget for a moment about the “failed” Scottish independence vote yesterday, Wall Street, Jack Ma, Alibaba’s NYSE debut and the “10 most […]
Sunday: “There’s a man down there. Might be your man…”
Ain’t no way in the world I’m going out that front door. –Sonny Boy Williamson, Marshall Sehorn and Elmore James
America’s Swan Song in South Vietnam: Don’t miss Rory Kennedy’s new documentary.
Last Friday night I saw Rory Kennedy’s documentary Last Days in Viet Nam at the E Street Cinema, in Northwest Washington, D.C. […]
UPDATE: Decision day in Scotland.
Update as of 10 pm Scottish time/5 pm EST: Most UK and American news sources have it that 5 hours after the […]
Maryland Avenue and Hanover Streets, Annapolis, Maryland
United States Naval Academy, graduating class of 1894
Only Rock ‘n’ Roll but it made you: Who could possibly care about which 10 books influenced lawyers and other white-collar generic dweebs the most?
People lie about the influence of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying; they never lie about the power of Shotgun by Junior Walker […]
Have you ever had an original thought? (continued)
One of the great things about America and having a higher education is that after listening to a POTUS speech or chat […]
Checking in with Maraym Montague: Marrakech, Morocco, Peacock Pavilions Design Hotel.
Over the past 8 years we’ve marveled at and fallen hopelessly in love with the peripatetic Ms. Montague, an American expat of […]
Checking in with Maraym Montague: Marrakech, Morocco, Peacock Pavilions Design Hotel.
Over the past 8 years we’ve marveled at and fallen hopelessly in love with the peripatetic Ms. Montague, an American expat of […]
The Blogspam Bombing of WAC/P: The 3 or 4 weekly comments at What About Clients/Paris. Where did they go?
We are still trying to fix this. Over the last 6 months we have been blogspam-bombed to the tune of nearly 1000 […]
Washingtonian: Photos of Depression-Era D.C.
Compliments of the Library of Congress and yeoman labors by the Yale University photo archive, there are over 170,000 pictures taken between […]
Harvard, Steven Pinker and Cultural Literacy: What should we all know something about?
Once again, Cultural Literacy, anyone? What should we all know about, anyway? What does it mean to be educated? See in The […]
In Rolling Stone: “Last Tango in Kabul”
A current Rolling Stone feature by Matthieu Aikins covers the Kabul expat community from government contract boon days to the present, giving […]
NYT op-ed: 24/7 workplace email is Bad Craziness. How about time-outs evenings and weekends?
In the New York Times yesterday, contributing writer Clive Thompson, also the author of “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing […]