Showing posts with label Washington DC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Washington DC. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

10 for 10 (9th entry): A Quote from Jazz Great Herbie Hancock

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Greetings to our blog readers in Austria, Dubai, and Singapore.... Tonight, we continue marking our tenth anniversary of blogging with a...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Comic Strip Survey: For the First Time, We Check Out the Baltimore Sun

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Greetings to our blog readers in Hong Kong, Turkey, and Germany........ This week for the first time in the eight-year history of th...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Top 10 Comic Strips from the Sunday Washington Post: Lio Takes Gold

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Greetings to our blog readers in Switzerland, Sweden and Turkey........ Today, we once again rank our ten favorite comic strips from...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The DC List (3 of 3)..........Last Group of Republican Congressman.............and when they turn 103

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Welcome to our beloved blog readers in Croatia, Costa Rica and Brazil! For those of you who live outside America, the Republican Par...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

The DC List (1 of 3): Meet Your Republican Congressional Members...........and, guess when they will turn 103

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Greetings to our blog readers from Argentina, France and Malaysia.......we are coming to you live from the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Quote of the Day: Famous Authors (1 of 5)

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Alas, we did not get around to quoting authors of banned books during Banned Books Week last week. We know that Politics and Prose in Wash...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

This Weekend at the Cinema: "The Congress" is NOT About Washington, DC

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Greetings to our blog readers in Iceland, Japan and planet Mars! Girl Power! Today, we feature three films starring women, which are...
Friday, March 14, 2014

On Stage: Boy George is Back

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Yes, Boy George, the lead singer of Culture Club, a new wave pop band from the 1980s which is also going to tour this year, will be coming...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Quotes from the Little Thinkers (4 of 16): Frida Kahlo

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Greetings to our blog-readers in Denmark, Italy and Hungary (we seem to be more popular in Europe than we are here in American, well.........
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Presidential Quotes (12 of 16): James A Garfield

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Today, we quote president James A. Garfield (1831-1881), who was president for a mere six months before being assassinated by a very troub...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

Weather in the Mid-Atlantic: Snow, Ice and Rain

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With this snowy image of the Humpback Covered Bridge in Covington, Va., a town that is one hour northwest of Roanoke, which is seeing incl...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Quote of the Day: Abraham Lincoln

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Yes, we have come to the 16th President Abraham Lincoln, who is one of the four Mount Rushmore presidents in South Dakota. Ford's Th...
Monday, November 18, 2013

The Last Ten Films I've Seen: Novel Ideas

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I was completely oblivious to the fact that Angelica Huston (pictured bottom) has written a new memoir called "A Story Lately Tol...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Hooray..........the Shutdown is Over

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Park rangers, Washington DC-area taxi drivers and museum guards can rejoice, the federal government shutdown is over. WRAL-TV out of Ral...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

DC Week (6 of 8): Cong. Reps from Blue States

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Today, Cong. Chris Van Hollen (pictured top) made headlines when he was informed by Cong. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who was presiding i...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

DC Week (4 of 8): A Quote from SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Today, we have a quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 80, who is one of the Supreme Court's more progressive justices. She recently made he...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

DC Week (3 of 8): The Onion's Take on Congress

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The images here are of: 1) Cong. Howard Coble (R-NC), who at 82 is one of the oldest members of the House though he is a few years you...
Friday, October 11, 2013

DC Week (2 of 8): Tweets About the Nation's Capital and the Government Shutdown

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With images of 1) Cong. Jim Matheson (D-Utah); 2) Mabry Mill, near Roanoke, Va., which has been closed due to the federal government s...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

DC Week (1 of 8): A Quote from George Washington

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We start DC Week with a simple entry featuring a quote from America's first president George Washington. Of course, thanks to the like...
Monday, October 7, 2013

DC Week Teaser (2 of 2): No Pandas, No Problem

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Yes, talking heads are bickering on CNN with Anderson Cooper acting as a pro-wrestling referee as we speak, and we imagine that over o...