July 17, 2013
America’s Pastime
Bryce Harper. Mike Trout. Manny Machado. Steven Strasburg. Mariano Rivera. Derrick Jeter. Ichiro Suzuki. Old and new. Black and white. Asian and Hispanic. Baseball is America. All of America. Baseball is back. And more than football. More than hockey (which...
July 16, 2013
Good News: No Riots
The good news was there were no riots. Some protests. A few folks got hurt here and there by vengeful kids who wanted to take their anger out on somebody. A promise of future protests by Cable television star Al...
July 15, 2013
The Traffic Cop
Unlike the House, where the Speaker is expected to expedite the will of the majority, the person charged with running the Senate is not expected to exert his will. Instead, he or she is more like a glorified traffic cop,...
July 10, 2013
Confab on Immigration
Republicans are having a confab on immigration as I write this entry. I imagine that none of them like the Senate product. I don’t blame them. I don’t like what the Senate produced, even though, had I been in the...
July 9, 2013
Dog Days
The dog days of summer used to be dedicated to the appropriations process on Capitol Hill. Both the House and the Senate would slog through 13 spending bills, usually under an open amendment process. Members of the various subcommittees would...
July 8, 2013
The Fed, the ECB and La Dolce Vita
Strangozzi is the characteristic pasta of Umbria, Tuscany’s hot sister. Hearty and rustic like the Umbrians who conceived it, strangozzi is best enjoyed with an oil and garlic sauce and shaved truffles that flourish beneath the region’s rich black soil. The dish...