Uncle Sam is a real man named Samuel Wilson, born from two brothers both named John. He was around before there was even a United States and only later became a sexist who overpowered an idealistic young woman who had always loyally… Read More ›
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My Chats with Gore Vidal on the Presidents & First Ladies
I did not know Gore Vidal well, but I’d read some of his books, and he’d read some of mine. We met three times: once at the National Press Club in Washington, a second time at the White House, and… Read More ›
McKinley & Roosevelt: Teddy’s Crack Behind Mack’s Back, Egotism & Death
William McKinley had seen war. It wasn’t about heroics, it was about blood. So much of his identity was linked to his years serving in the Union Army during the Civil War and he maintained strong ties to all of… Read More ›
Flagging the Lost Holiday & A Gallery of past Flag Day Joys
You could have had off from work today – – if only you made some waves. You could be standing outside, rallying it up, with some blue-red dyed cake in hand. Summertime starts with Memorial Day, ends with Labor Day… Read More ›
A Dog on the Verge of Loss: Fostercare Weimaraner #1 Paddinginton
A year ago yesterday marks what became the last three-weeks of my dog Yeager’s life. One can find on this website articles I’ve written about some of that experience (with links below). So much of what proved to be a… Read More ›
Coffee Break With the Presidents
If any professional career has an excuse for a pot or two of coffee a day, its the Presidency. What with oil spills, failed North Korean missile launches, closing down one war before starting a new one, unfair spin, untrue… Read More ›
What Were Those Leprechauns Thinking?
Whether or not flesh-and-blood Leprechauns really do exist in the woodlands of Ireland, they have cropped up in ceramic forms, populating gift shops in the United States ever since the 1960s, when St. Patrick’s Day started to become an annual… Read More ›
Marion Berry: Not the DC Mayor, the Oregon Pie
Washington, D.C.’s imprisoned and re-elected mayor (1979-1991; 1995-1999) is Marion Barry. Oregon’s longish, glossy, purple fruit is the Marion Berry. And that makes Marionberry Pie the unofficial though unchallenged State Pie of Oregon. Found in profusion along Willamette Valley vines each… Read More ›
Drinking & Smoking With the Presidents
Every four years, there’s not only a race for either Presidents to hang onto the White House – or Presidential candidates to seize the keys from them, and move in. A parallel race is also run, however, by manufacturers and… Read More ›
Romney’s Mormonism Might Mitigate Muslim Myth about Obama
If former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney wins today’s Iowa caucus or proves to otherwise be the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, one element of his potential candidacy might prove a relief of at least one issue the Obama re-election campaign may… Read More ›
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