August 2018

I am pleased to say that Familia TD spent a pleasant (if frenetic) week outside of the jurisdiction of the Trump Administration in the (quite literally) great White North… nay, even further north, where I ran in the 35th Reykjavik Marathon (the plus/minus six hour finishing time consistent with what I’ve come to expect as a heavier than I’d like to be man in my mid-50’s). Mrs. TD and the soon-returning-to-college Loquacious Pup and I all enjoyed some fabulously clean, brisk air and amazingly good food amidst one of the world’s most fascinating landscapes (including volcanos and geothermal emanations that...

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Regular readers (thank you, whomever you are… Lord knows I don’t post enough to warrant your continued interest, so thanks again! Although feel free to check out my “good friend” Donald J. Putin, who posts dozens of times a day) are aware that among my illustrious college classmates at Columbia University’s final all-male class in 1983 were lawyer and failed judicial candidate Miguel Estrada, master of the universe Daniel Loeb, and an obscure fellow named Barack H. Obama, who went on to become the 44th President of the United States. Barack, like me, was a political science major concentrating in...

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