Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

President Obama and Vice President Biden were at Ray’s Hell Burger yesterday for lunch. Ray’s is a burger restaurant in Arlington, Virginia and one of our lunch hangouts. I am generally not a burger lover, but Ray’s makes some awesome burgers. My personal favorite from their menu is the Big Punisher with a side of [...]

In case you have been wondering why I haven’t been posting on (torture!, swine flu!, specter!, pakistan!, sunita paul!, bangladesh!), its because I have been a little under the weather for the past week that has kept me from work and the blog. A lot has happened and I’ve not been able to write about [...]

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It was a very cloudy morning today in Washington. Even under a blanket of clouds the Cherry Blossoms looked spectacular. Three friends and I, with cameras in hand, spent a wonderful few hours this morning visiting nature’s springtime gift to Washington DC.
This little guy was also enjoying the blossoms at the Tidal [...]

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz is one tough human being:
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat of Florida, kicked off a breast cancer awareness campaign today with disclosures of her own that hadn’t been widely known before now.
The congresswoman revealed over the weekend that for the last year, she had battled breast cancer and had undergone seven major [...]

My bracket (click image to enlarge):

My daughter’s bracket (click image to enlarge):

My daughter, by picking by jersey colors and other advanced techniques, has beaten me the last two years. This year, she initially wanted to pick Wisconsin to go all the way because they make good cheese there. But, then she decided she preferred Tennessee over [...]

President Obama delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress tonight. It was a speech for our times.
There is one sentence from this speech that may not get much press coverage. But it literally means the world to me, and I suspect to millions around the world. So, I want to highlight it [...]

Today was a beautiful day in Washington, DC. To be sure, it was bone chillingly cold, but it did not matter.
My day began at 5:15am. I made sure to put on multiple layers of clothing underneath my heavy jacket before I headed toward Washington on Interstate 66 at 5:45. There was heavy traffic on I-66 [...]

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls [...]

Sometime yesterday, this little blog crossed the one million page views mark. As I write this, the visit counter tells me there have been 1,002,072 visits to this blog since I started writing on March, 2006.
When I started this blog, I had no idea if anyone would read it. To my surprise, readers started to trickle [...]

The world is changed.
I write tonight from the Old Dominion, not far from what was the capital of the Confederacy. I write tonight from a changed Virginia.
As Ohio was called, I kissed my daughter good night last night and whispered to her that Barack Obama would be our next president. Then I wept briefly. Then [...]