After the Health Care Summit, President Obama had one more item on his plate: the presentation of the National Medals of the Arts and Humanities at the White House. The recipients were selected in 2009 and received their medals yesterday (February 25). This ceremony was postponed due to the shooting at Fort [...]
I’m still baking chocolate chip cookies from the Christmas batch. Great idea to scoop the cookie dough, plop the balls into a plastic bag, then toss them in the freezer. I bake as the craving hits me.
This year I hope I can indulge in the National Museum of the American Indian’s annual [...]
UPDATE: There will be a tribute to Howard Zinn, Monday, February 15 from 6 - 11 PM at Busboys and Poets (2021 14th Street, NW) with Amy Goodman and other special guests; musical performance by Bernice Johnson Reagon (Sweet Honey in the Rock), David Zirin and other friends of Howard Zinn
HOWARD ZINN, historian [...]
Yesterday, I had the pleasure and opportunity to see White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and deputy social secretary Joe Reinstein at a meeting of NATCAP, the national society of government meeting professionals inside the National Archives building in downtown Washington. I have to give NATCAP credit, so far there has been no press [...]
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
I promise you, we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and [...]
This is the last week of the Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens exhibit at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. If you know DC, you know it’s tough for a native like me to shell out $12 to see an art exhibit with all the free Smithsonians in town. But [...]
When I learned the Trapeze School New York was coming to DC, I was psyched. I just knew I was going to be flying through the air with the greatest of ease before the year was out. I remember hearing stories about circus school right outside the beltway; and yep, I did see [...]
Yeah, I was pretty steamed when Senator Joe Lieberman decided to yank the rug from under the Senate health care reform bill over the medicare buy-in compromise for 55 - 64 year olds — a plan he was for before he was against. And yep, I wrote the White House with the “I’d rather wait [...]
Though I hate to fan more wind into the fame-seeking sails of the serial celebrity wannabes Tareq and Michaela Salahi aka the White House party crashers on this blog, Virginia governor Tim Kaine’s quote in today’s Washington Times is priceless!
“If somebody had said to me, ‘Hey, someone in Virginia is trying to crash a party.’ [...]
Seeing red ribbons? Today’s World AIDS Day. Be a Valentine. Wear red. Be aware. Don’t discriminate. No one is immune.
http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/
The President’s Address to the Nation on Afghanistan – Live at 8 PM tonight…and even FOX is carrying it.
Busboys and Poets is hosting watch events for President Obama’s speech outlining [...]
