From "Slate" today ( Read more... )

Today, Wednesday Dec 20, was a horrid day in the ongoing horror that is the Trump presidency. Two aspects are equally sordid and disgusting ( Read more... )

Whew! This Saturday evening brings to a close our holiday season here in Washington. We had another couple here for dinner and a little bridge (oh, and -- of no small consequence -- watching on TV the town's NFL team beat the Philly Eagles to get themselves into the division playoffs). For our friends and us (we go back almost 30 years) the evening ( Read more... )

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Yesterday we trooped back to Washington's Kennedy Center for that second day of the Theatre Festival, which I'd written about on Sunday ( Read more... )

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We awoke to a snowstorm in Washington this morning -- but it seems to be more benign than the weatherman predicted. We got 4-5" of wet snow, and the thermometer crept above freezing by noon; now it's melting away quite rapidly. (Which is a good thing, since the day after tomorrow [Thursday] the freezing weather is forecast to return, dropping to 18 ( Read more... )