Archive For February 28, 2017
Three hundred times. We made love to each other three hundred times. Hard to forget three hundred times. It’s true. I kept track. My second wife made me destroy all the letters but in a dead friend’s attic I found my thick log hard copy of that year’s sex. I was young, you were much…
President Donald Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference last Friday, February 24. Here’s some notes. “False narrative!” “Fake news!” “No more sources!” “How many elections do you have to have?” “We get the drugs, they get the money!” “Beautiful clean coal!” “I will never apologize.” “I love setting records.” “I like Campbell’s…
The road less traveled for a reason. My whole life walked a fine line between Joan of Arc and Don Quixote. Somebody always trying to light a fire under me. and then there is all that ass. And windmills whirling. Road strewn with liquor bottles, bombs bursting in air. Costumes left behind like last year’s…
The following is from Signature and is the work of LORRAINE BERRY. Except for the French references, just what I was thinking. – JDW There are people who think of Johnny as a clown and a buffoon. But I do not. I despise John Iselin and everything that Iselenism has come to stand for. I think…
Last week was seriously spectacular. This was the first congressional recess of the year, and in town hall meetings across the country, you not only made a stand, you made a difference. In Florida, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz agreed with a constituent that Donald Trump should release his tax returns. In Alabama, Republican Rep….
Something from the dog days of summer couple years ago. A note to one of the few Americans to run a sub-four mile and a sub-2:10 marathon, a unicorn who survived cancer. The man chemoed on an Exercycle. – JDW Name Dropping with Old Guys: Ken Martin, Charlie Spedding, Keith Brantly, Keith Richards and me….
Been a political consultant more than I care to recall. My record? Oh and Forever. I have tried to help Democratic candidates. Tried and tried and tried. Dawns on me, they’ve all been men. Hmmm. Who digresses in the second line? Might be a record. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. These guys I advised, first words out…
A year ago, we were all so innocent. A year later, we were not wrong to be worried. – JDW Remember when the Republicans were bragging about their deep and talented field of Presidential candidates? Don’t hear that so much any more, do you? Ludicrous to begin with, but outright laughable as we approach Leap Day. Wanted…
The old man had a dream. He was well-built, nice head of hair, tall handsome glowing first-born of enormous wealth and a bigger future. Didn’t want to wake up. In his dream no pain, no noise, peace and silence. In his dream nothing happened, didn’t go nowhere, fine right where he was. In his dream…
“He had accumulated enough memories to know that the world around him was continually being shaped by his own memories, and while all people were bound together by the common space they shared, their journeys through time were all different, which meant that each person lived in a slightly different world from everybody else.” –…