When we were in Valencia, Spain, during 2022, we had the chance to meet a clutch of Ukrainians granted temporary…
There was a piece in The Seattle Times recently, averring that prostitution has declined on Seattle’s Aurora Avenue. It caught…
When I was a graduate student, one of my esteemed professors — himself a veteran of the Washington, D.C. hype…
Woke seems to be on the lips of many conservatives of the right wing persuasion these days. It doesn’t take…
A little late to the party, but… Taking note here that (some) politicians from an organ-shaped state want bloggers —…
Brutal Reality The brutalist architecture of government buildings sometimes hints at a brutal reality. The global COVID pandemic can surely…
This is another “stray thoughts” post. Plucked, for the most part, from the headlines. A tacit admission that I’m short…
Folks in some quarters are very excited about reports that classified materials were found at several locations frequented by Pres.…
In 1979, I took an editing job in Washington, D.C. I was assigned one volume in a multipart study on…