I happily posted three days ago as Mueller's vaunted report went to AG Barr. Alas, we now have Barr's take on the 22-month-long inquiry -- and the news is NOT good ( Read more... )

My apologies to one and all for not posting in the last three weeks. The Mid-term elections yesterday kind of overwhelmed me, and -- suddenly -- they were past ( Read more... )

We love one particular national institution here in Washington, the Kennedy Center, and last evening we had a unique experience there. It was a genuinely odd production of "Measure for Measure" -- considered to be Shakespeare's only "other" play about justice and mercy ("Merchant of Venice" being the first ( Read more... )

As most of you lovely readers know, I'm obsessed with the egomaniacal nincompoop who plays at running our country. You'd therefore be right to presume that today's events on the Trumpsky front would grab my entire attention ( Read more... )

I meant to post on Monday about Robert di Niro's heartfelt message to The Fucking Donald, uttered at the Tony Awards celebration last Sunday. Obviously, I second that motion ( Read more... )

I've been reading a new book called "War on Peace" -- about contemporary American diplomacy's assorted perils. It's by a young writer named Ronan Farrow -- son of Mia Farrow (yay!) and Woody Allen (boo ( Read more... )

So, yesterday, I posted about the prospects for Trumpsky deep-sixing the Iran nuclear deal. Turns out I was waaay too optimistic: he announced two hours ago that he's taking the US the hell out of the only real-world mechanism under which Iran WON'T have a nuclear weapon (and a delivery system) by, oh, say, 2020 ( Read more... )

I hear on the morning news that Brit ForeignMin Boris Johnson is coming to town today. To boot, the Post reports British Amb Kim Darroch remains hopeful that the US will stay in the Iran nuclear deal. He even reported that retrograde (that's MY word, not Darroch's!) US NatSecurity Advisor John Bolton "thinks the US should stay in the accord for now ( Read more... )

So The Donald decided today to congratulate his buddy Putin by phone on his (fraudulent!) re-election. But the Washington Post tonight reports that, in fact, his national-security staff had briefed him on the planned call, telling him "NOT TO CONGRATULATE" [sic -- reportedly all caps in the briefing memo] him because of Russian bad behavior ( Read more... )

Joanne and I went to the first showing of Spielberg's "The Post" here in Vero Beach. (It premiered in December in Washington, of course.) The film is marvelous, right up there with "All the President's Men" (which came out two decades ago) -- and it is sorely needed after this first wretched year of Trumpsky's reign ( Read more... )