Month: May 2011

Finn says many thanks to everyone for the mosquito-avoiding advice – the bites are healing, and he doesn’t have any new ones!What are you-all up to? I have another batch of German potato salad in the works –...

Isn’t this Angry, Angy Bird’s time about up? Weinergate? Really? I hope Shirley Sherrod’s or Rep. Weiner’s and others’ lawyers takes him to the cleaners. It’s clear that no one in our...

One of the burdens of being a very serious Beltway journalist is that you want to maintain access (relationships, really) to people on both sides of the aisle. That makes it hard to simply report, for example, that you talked to...

There is an ancient Greek proverb, often attributed to Euripides, which states that “whomsoever the Gods seek to destroy, they first make mad.” Whether the Eurozone crisis of 2011 was some kind of karmic revenge for...

Considering the fact that Mitt Romney recently made his first visit to Iowa of this election cycle, it appears that he doesn’t intend to seriously contend in the state. And considering that there are a plethora of socially...