John Brown's Notes and Essays

Previous entries of this blog, which have appeared near-daily in recent months, can be found   via This Blog is dedicated to D. Trump, commander in chief of the USA Image from , with caption: U.S. President Donald Trump, with a bottle of Trump-branded water , speaks to reporters after a security briefing at his golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey U.S.  Jonathan Ernst/Reuters During your scribbler's near-daily ca. 70-mins. regular mid-morning stroll/jog in the Imperial Capital's Cleveland Park area, a walk/run in part intended to pick up trash, including used plastic water bottles (PWBs) for placement in his neighborhood's waste receptacles, he noticed that, for the first time since he began his PWBs elimination excursions a few months ago, two of the streets where he stretches his 71-year-old legs -- Tilden and Porter -- had the same number of PWBs strewn upon them by honorable citizens (via a window of their automobiles?) who can't be bothered, in

This item, here edited/expanded, was initially placed on FB . image (not in FB entry) from A Facebook speculation (slightly edited) re the "lovin'" Trump-Putin relationship: 'Em in-power russkies (like 'em or not, they're no dummies) wanted/"figured" that Trump would be in their interest/their winning "deal" as U.S. president. Why? Because of: --his ignorance about the outside world; --his disorganized, "wherever, whenever" mind; --his total lack of interest in elementary facts/data/reports, including, I speculate, economic ones, as when he participated in organizing a Miss Universe show in Russia  and planning to construct a Moscow Trump Tower , not exactly a success of Trump-bizness know-how. image, clearly photoshopped, from Why, to repeat, is/was Trump (possibly) the Kremlin's man? How about because this obsessive "I love who I am," not-quite-of WASP German ancestry (1) Twitterer in Ch

Previous entries of this blog, which have appeared near-daily in recent months, can be found   via This Blog is Dedicated to D. Trump, commander in chief of the USA Today (8/27), in Cleveland Park (Northwest quadrant of the Imperial Capital [map at ] ), where your blogger, stretching his 71-year-old legs during a near-daily ca. 70 mins. constitutional, found and picked up five plastic water bottles (PWBs) dumped unceremoniously by ... whomever/wherever ... Here's the list:  1.  Tilden Street:  one  mini-PWB;  2.  On/off  Porter Stree t:  two PWBs; 3.  Off Connecticut Avenue, near the Burke School , one PWB, filled with a blue-colored liquid that did not appear to be urine, as is not too rarely the case with discarded PWB s. Also, in the magical Rock Creek Park , midway along the path leading to Porter Street, a decapitated, label-less PWB was found by your blogger below a bush, where it evidently had been lying in piece/s (hiding?) for a long, long time. Wh

Previous entries of this blog, which have appeared near-daily in the recent months, can be found via This blog is dedicated to D. Trump, commander in chief of the USA. Image from article (2017), under the headline: "Donald Trump Pulls a Rubio and Gulps From a Big-Boy Bottle of Water" Quite a news-breaking day in the Plastic Water Bottle (PBW) world!!! Porter Street/Tilden Street (see below map) Porter Lost on 8/26  -- in an unannounced, unpublicized,  street-to street competition on "where the most PWB  trash can be found in Cleveland Park," part of the NW quadrant of Washington, DC.  ... Porter Street Lost to Tilden Street. The score, based on your blogger's PBWs pick-up: Three (Tilden Street PWBs) Found to Two (Porter Street PWBs) Found!!! I repeat: Three (3) PWBs for Tilden to two (2) for Porter !!! The result of this unpublicized competition was discovered by your blogger during his near-daily ca. 70 minute stroll/jog in his the ne

Previous entries of this blog, which appears near-daily, can be found via   The blog is dedicated to the USA's commander in chief and future Trump Towers owner of Greenland ,  D. Trump   Image from , with caption:  President Donald Trump speaks at a briefing on this year's hurricane season at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters, June 6, 2018, in Washington. QUOTATION FOR THE DAY:  “It should be up to our visitors to decide how best to keep themselves and their families hydrated during a visit to a national park.”  (SEE ARTICLE AT THE END OF THIS ENTRY ) *** In a 8/25 regular morning stroll/jog in the Cleveland park area of the Northwest quadrant of the Imperial Capital, your blogger, in part as a search to uncover (and dispose of) polluting plastic water bottles (PWBs), picked up seven PWBs on Porter Street in the space of some 20 minutes, 300 × 300 thus bringing to an abrupt end his overly idealistic  hope that Porter S

Previous entries of this blog can be found via This blog is dedicated the USA's commander in chief and lover of Denmark/Greenland, D. Trump   In my near daily, ground-level effort to contribute to a better environment, on 8/24 found two plastic water bottles (later discarded in a waste receptacle) during ca. 70 mins. stroll/ jog in part of the NW quadrant of the Imperial Capital. Both PWBs had a label familiar to residents of Washington, DC: Deer Park One PWB was found on Tilden Street; the other on Connecticut Avenue. Again, miraculously no PWBs discovered on Porter Street ...

Previous entries of this blog can be found via This blog is dedicated to the USA commander in chief,  D. Trump: Did he plan to grab Greenland by  the p...y ? *** On 8/23 in the AM, your blogger found no  Yes,  NO !!! --  plastic water bottles on Porter Street !!! No PWBs on Porter Street? How's that for "breaking news"!!! A memorable development indeed -- and truly "breaking news"!!!  (Well, ok some cynics would say plastic "doesn't break").  *** 8/23 was also notable in that your blogger/jogger/stroller found two PWBs  he had not seen before. The first, on a curb on Tilden Street, was stored away in a brown junk food bag and had the label:   GLACÉAU   vitamin water  power-c  dragonfruit ...   The second PWB, first discovered on a curb on Connecticut Avenue, was a plastic bottle of your blogger's favorite "sparkling natural mineral water," S. Pellegrino (which he, a snob,

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for previous editions of this blog, refer to This blog is dedicated to the Prince Most Loved in Denmark , D. "The Ham " Trump (forget any "let" after "The Ham") A hysterical note Readers, if any, of this silly blog may have noticed that the prize for being the Kingdom of Used Plastic Water Bottles  [PWBs] in NW DC -- belongs to prestigious Porter Street!!! This observation is based on my near-daily, unscientific stroll/jog on-the-ground research re PWBs in a corner of the Imperial Capital during the past few months. (See below image; more detailed maps of the area covered by your stroller, jogger/blogger can be found at  8/21 entry ) Well, given Porter's PWBs reign, you can imagine your blogger's surprise that today (8/22), as he entered Porter Street after strolling/jogging in the magical Rock Creek Park in the AM, he initially could not locate any PWBs on Porter Street. No PWBs on Porter!!!! He thought it was histor

For previous editions of this blog, refer to This blog is dedicated to the US commander in chief, D. Trump, with special praise -- of, at this time -- his extraordinary efforts to extend the peaceful American presence -- as far off as in Greenland -- to keep the Homeland Safe by building-with-borrowing million-dollar Trump Towers on icebergs! image from   Breaking News!!!  (don't tell me plastic doesn't break) Four PWBs Trash Picked Up Today by Your Blogger in The Imperial Capital!!!   The Great Plastic Water Bottle Catch (PWB) in the NW quadrant [see below map]  of the Imperial Capital Continues!   (But none -- thank God & The National Park Service  & considerate citizens  -- in Rock Creek Park,  given that no plastic trash could be found in that magical space on  today's near-daily watch by your blogger.)  *** FYI, before today's account of the daily PWB pick-up by your blogger, here below is a geographical tour of the are