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Continue reading →: Folger Park
It was a quiet day on Capitol Hill because the federal government was closed. I got out and about this morning to take in the calm and peace and silence the snow delivers. It was about 8:30 this morning when I took this snapshot at Folger Park.
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Continue reading →: Remembering Russell Baker
I thought about it more than a couple of times, but I never went to visit him. He lived not too far from me. But I felt his privacy was more important than me wanting a picture with Mr. Baker. By the time I’d come to admire Russell Baker’s work…
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Continue reading →: Should Congress forgo being paid during a government shutdown?
Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla) is co-sponsoring legislation that would make all members of congress forgo their pay checks during a government shutdown. Please note that government shutdowns are now used as a legislative bargaining tool. It seems very irresponsible, reckless, and cruel to me, but that’s where we’re at in…
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Continue reading →: “In that sense, reading history is like expanding your memory further back in time”
…I was not completely fooling myself in believing that history has something to teach us all, even though it is impossible to know at the moment of learning just what that something might be. Self-conscious attempts to teach or preach relevance in history are therefore unnecessary, because the connection between…
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Continue reading →: In Our Scientific Age, Progress is Inevitable even if not Permanent
I have a friend, we’ll call him Sam, who doesn’t care for the term “progress.” It’s odd when you think about it, but in his case it has a lot to do with politics. The term is too close to the term “progressive,” which in Sam’s mind, I suspect, is…
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Jeff Wills 