Some years back, I was living in California and our granddaughter was visiting us for the first time. She didn’t come alone. Madison, who now goes by Artemis, was just two months old. I mention this story because I had just seen in the paper that the oldest woman in America had died at the …
Did you know that one luxury hotel in the District of Columbia raised its prices for Wednesday and Thursday night this week? Yes, that one. And when I tell you why, you’ll see that it’s just another example of Donald Trump milking his followers for every dollar he can get out of them. This Thursday …
I think my wife and I are getting ready to stick our toes in the water again. We haven’t gone anywhere that wasn’t necessary since Thanksgiving 2019, when we visited our daughter Pauline and her family in Guatemala City. Since then we’ve been out of commission for two different reasons. First was my wife’s emergency …
The crowd pictured above is almost certainly not a Black Lives Matter rally. It’s not a rally for women’s rights, or for better treatment of transgendered tea=ens. It’s certainly not fans of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. It could be a social gathering of incels — we might be on the right tracks …
I got one helluva shock a few minutes ago. I sat down to write a piece about how if the White House Correspondents Dinner is the “Nerd Prom,” as others have called it, then CPAC, which I call “Whitestock,” must be something worse. I was thinking maybe the “Incel Ball.” So I looked at the …
What’s the worst thing that can happen to a serious person? If you said “become a figure of ridicule,” you nailed it. The terms we have to describe it — jerkoff, jagoff, etc. — don’t really get it done. Anything with “jerk” in it that’s not Jamaican food or a weightlifting term implies a certain …
My left arm hurts, right up at the shoulder. Not a real big deal, at its worst it’s about a 2 on a scale of 1-10. Speaking of that scale, it’s sort of like the system guys use among themselves when talking about women. There are no 10s. I have finally convinced my wife not …
Editor’s note: Another one of the lost pieces from the restore. *** “You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” When Jim Bouton wrote the final sentence of his classic book, “Ball Four,” …
Are we the victims of our own success when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine? There wasn’t much Donald Trump did right in dealing with the pandemic, but he did push for a vaccine to be developed as quickly as possible. That a vaccine was developed and brought to market in less than a year …
As you know if you’re a regular reader, both my children are in the Foreign Service, one for the last 17 years and the other for the last 12. Between the two of them, they have been stationed in Yaounde, Cameroon, Athens, Greece, Beijing, PRC, Monterrey, Mexico, Surabaya, Indonesia, Ascunsion, Paraguay, Kingston, Jamaica and Guatemala …
