The Library of Congress is one of the great treasures of Washington. It's probably the biggest library on the planet, in terms of total holdings. What really makes it great, though, is that almost anyone can get a reader's card and gain access to the Library's collection ( Read more... )

I went to the Mall today to see Barack Obama take the oath of office. What I witnessed was something different. I saw America today ( Read more... )

To the lady in the grey "luxury" SUV/Crossover/BloatedCorpseMobile on Fairfax Circle this evening:
Thank you for giving way to me and letting me into the intersection. I was slightly less by the way you waved me in--was that frantic arm-wagging evidence of some sort of hostile intent latent in your selfless road manners?
Just the same, though I ( Read more... )

The Nationals will be owned by theLerner Group!

Expect a long open letter to the owners on this blog soon. It's only too bad that I'm not down at RFK to watch the white smoke rise and the crowd chant in thanksgiving...oh wait. Different selection process.

It was a beautiful afternoon today--clear skies and fair weather--so right after work, I decided to hang around Dupont. I wandered back into Second Story and picked up a couple of books (about which more in another entry, possibly ( Read more... )

Alfie Soriano continues to be an enigma to me.

One minute, he makes a pretty good running catch in left field. ALFIE YOU'RE MY HERO! I bellow in appreciation.

The next, he doesn't even bother to make an effort for a playable ball which drops for a double. ALFIE, QUIT LOLLYGAGGIN' OUT THERE I bark ( Read more... )

I bothered to do a bit of number-crunching on Soriano, in an effort to figure out why he might be a liability at second base for the Nats ( Read more... )

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Starbuck's. Corner of Rhode Island Ave., NW and Conn. Ave. NW, south of Dupont Circle

I'm standing waiting for my drink.

The girl behind the counter calls out for customers to collect their drinks:

"Tall latte!"

"Is that a tall, skim latte?"

"No, just a regular."

"I had a tall skim latte." She's a woman of a certain age: bottle-blonde, ( Read more... )

Alfonso Soriano will play left field reports the Post. Apparently, he had a long chat with Alberto Castillo during the bus ride from Viera to Jupiter. Castillo was able to bring Soriano around:

Castillo said that Soriano had talked over the situation with his family and decided to accept a move to left field ( Read more... )