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One of the great details of Christmas, of course, is Christmas music, and there are few people in the world who love it more than I do. I’d play Christmas music 12 months a year if it were socially acceptable. … Continue reading
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I’m amused by how our friends on the left are baffled by the political leanings of the President-elect’s policy advisers. His science guru denies climate change! Horrors. His labor policy guy doesn’t support a $15 minimum wage! Scandal. Next thing you know you’re … Continue reading
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Hawaiian military base that brought our nation into World War II. President Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy,” and over the last … Continue reading
I hear that when Donald Trump takes office he’s going to build that North Dakota pipeline back on its original route… And make the protesters pay for it!
Somehow Donald Trump is already making “deals” out there with private companies, spreading around some holiday cheer a few weeks before Christmas. I mean Inauguration Day. Regular readers of this blog or its forerunners on TV or in print know … Continue reading
“Upset, bewildered, betrayed.” So says a top “art” “official” as quoted in Sunday’s Washington Post. What will “the arts” look like in Donald Trump’s America? For all the hand wringing we’ll see, I’d characterize it this way: gravy train’s stopping and … Continue reading
No doubt you remember this year’s great trivia question (see “Royal birthday,” April 20, 2016): Name four celebrities, all born in 1926 and all still going strong, that have been at their current jobs (more or less) waaaay longer than … Continue reading
Well, maybe Trump will fare better.
Speaking now of the folks in my adopted homeland… It’s amazing to me that the same people can be so confident and trusting of the players on our local football team, yet show absolutely zero faith in our duly elected … Continue reading
Huge. Or as we now say in Washington… yuuge. Yeah, I’m calling this one big. So “the Pack” from Green Bay is a bit down this year. They’re still the Packers, crushers of playoff dreams for us Washingtonians last year. This … Continue reading