Washington National Cathedral To Charge Admission It’s official: beginning in 2014 Washington, DC’s iconic National Cathedral will begin charging a $10 admission fee. To wit, the top ten ways to cover their budget gap. 10. Baptismal Font Admission Lottery- The Font will be refit as a lotto-style ping pong blower with balls marked $5 to $25. Pay […]

  Nelson Moves In Washington, DC’s Massachusetts’s  Avenue is called “Embassy Row” for a reason: lining the street for several miles are a string of mostly stately buildings which now serve as the Washington home to foreign governments. These buildings are on their second lives, at least, having originally been built as stately mansions of the […]

I chose death. Let’s be honest, that’s where the drama is.

Here we are, on the cusp of Memorial Day, when we honor and remember those who died serving our country.

  The War Relocation Act Seventy-one years ago today Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order requiring 120,000 mostly Japanese-Americans to report for forced relocation. In the wake of the December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, politicians, leaders and many others concluded that all Americans exhibiting the features of Japanese ancestry were potential spies, soldiers or […]

No doubt they would marvel at both our schools and our unwillingness to keep our children safe in them.

  To Apologize for Kindness You may recall that after the Newtown massacre where 20 children and six adults were murdered, an inter-faith memorial service was held. Reverend Rob Morris, a Newtown Lutheran Minister, one of whose young parishioners was among the dead, gave the benediction at the service. Reverend Morris was subsequently forced to […]

The (mostly) federal buildings around the city are adorned with some extraordinary lighting.                                                                                     […]

Former Santa Claus Texas mourns today as word spread of the injuries sustained by “Big Tex”, the official greeter at the fair. Investigators suspect that an electrical fault may have caused the deadly blaze.  Governor Rick Perry issued a statement, calling it a “Sad day…across the Lone Star State.” Tex, 60, has been on the […]