Category Archives: Politics
SOPA opera digest
I’d like it to be noted that I endured 24 hours without Wikipedia. But I didn’t. I got in. Meanwhile, Internet stakeholders-turned-doomsayers appear to have scuttled the online piracy debate captained by the film and television industries. And judging by the millions … Continue reading
Texas treat
What I would have given to have been able to take notes as I watched the play Ann: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards, at the Kennedy Center this week. In fact, I had tucked a notepad and pen into my … Continue reading
Sole food
Does this chilly January morning find Jack Frost nibbling your nose? While watching news coverage of the New Hampshire primary over breakfast yesterday, I gagged on a banner caption that read: Paul nibbling Romney’s heels Once I got the unseemly … Continue reading
Filed under All Things Wordish, Movies, Television and Radio, News, Politics
Civics meets syntax
Even before the 2012 election process begins in earnest in a few days, I already have indigestion. It used to be that this Beltway baby salivated at the onset of an election year, and all the intellectual and ideological meat it served … Continue reading
Filed under All Things Wordish, News, Politics
No skivvies, no service
From the flaky folks who banned the Happy Meal – a new piece of legislation that makes so much sense it’s ridiculous. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will consider legislation requiring naked people to place something under their bottoms … Continue reading
Super coincidence
Darn you, Stephen Colbert. On Tuesday I had jotted a blog idea on the back of an envelope and had only to fill it out. This, you recall, was the day the nation’s policymakers approved the creation of a Super … Continue reading
The Versies
I’ve never met Susan, writer of the Coming East blog, but she has graciously included me in a circle of bloggers to whom she’s conferring a Versatile Blogger Award. Being that, like Susan, this is the first blogging award I’ve received, I’ll … Continue reading
Y’all come
We all form impressions of the places we visit, based on how we’re treated by the locals. There are many stereotypes: New Yorkers are impatient and rude. Parisians are snooty. Washingtonians are self-important blow-hards. Based on my experience, with only the … Continue reading
