1.14 In a thriller, the Vikings upset the Saints with a desperate pass for a touchdown on the last play of the game. 1.13 Dinner at Pete’s Tavern with Ginny, Greg, Susan and Margaret, followed by The Post. A very good film. I particularly liked how Meryl Streep‘s Katherine Graham found her way to her …
An overall less grueling experience than last year ended with a near marathon in Albany (six days between December 26th and January 3rd.) But all’s well that ends well.) The speech was good, but the Governor’s delivery was even better–he showed a new dimension. Reaction was tempered–approving in goals, but possibly too ambitious. Time will …
12.30 Miscellaneous workers. John Paul Jones In late December, an electrical engineer in Tennessee named Jonathan Pace, participating in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, used a church computer to discover the largest known prime number ever. Large primes are very difficult to identify. And Mersenne primes, named after a 17th-century French monk, are a …
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We took our good friends Paul and Anne Lindstrom to a new/old club in Woodstock called The Colony Hotel to see my particular favorites Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, who really rocked the house. I enjoy them more every time I see them. Both of them. All of them.
11.29 John McCain on Hilary Clinton in Esquire: ““One of the almost irresistible impulses you have when you lose is to somehow justify why you lost and how you were mistreated: ’I did the right thing! I did!’” The hardest thing to do is to just shut up.”What’s the f***ing point? Keep the fight up? …
A covey of cousins? My cousin Elaine Warner(in blue)! came from San Diego to Maryland for a ceremony at the Naval Academy honoring her late husband Bob Craig. She brought three of their six children. My sister Rose and I reconnoitered with them at Harborplace in Baltimore for a traditional celebratory feast of cooked crustaceans. …
11.8 Brad Paisley and Carrie Undewood at the Country Music Awards: “Maybe next time he’ll think before he tweets.” 11.8 Bob Costas on the NFL: “The cracks in the foundation are there,” Costas said. “The day-to-day issues, as serious as they may be, they may come and go. But you cannot change the nature of …
NOVEMBER 2017: “THE REASON THE STOCK MARKET IS SO SUCCESSFUL IS BECAUSE OF ME” Read More »
This article was originally published in The Jackal. “You will not replace us!” That was the slogan that was half-shouted, half-snarled by Klansmen and neo-nazis on the civilized streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer. Lacking the stein-sloshing brio of “Deutschland Uber Alles’’ or the thuggy punchiness of “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer,” it was, …
10.31 Truck driver gunman from ISIS kills eight in Manhattan; the Halloween Parade goes on. 10.31 Anne Applebaum in the Post: “If this indictment is correct, Manafort is the living embodiment of this Russian-American convergence. And Trump, of course, is its apotheosis.” 10.31 Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes in Lawfare.com: “[Mueller’s] opening bid is a …
9.30 Washington Post: “[A]s storm-ravaged Puerto Rico struggled for food and water amid the darkness of power outages[,] Trump and his top aides effectively went dark themselves. Trump jetted to New Jersey that Thursday night [9 days ago] to spend a long weekend at his private golf club there, save for a quick trip to …
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