John Brown's Notes and Essays

Insist that the commander in thief get a new tie!!!! *** Could go on and on with these silly images, but my patience has its limits ... So maybe the CIT could wear ( en cachette ) the below  ***  WSJ image just in! via LH on FB

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 thief of the USA  9/25 On 9/25, during his regular ca. 70 mins AM stroll/jog in his Washington, DC neighborhood (Cleveland Park), your blogger picked up (and later discarded in public waste receptacles) five PWBs (plastic water bottles), thereby continuing his modest, but regular, one-person effort to diminish, granted in a minuscule way, the plastic infestation of a historic area in the Imperial Capital. Details of PWBs pickup: On Tilden Street -- one PWB (half full of urine; not an unusual liquid found in discarded PWBs) In Rock Creek Park , picnic area #1 (see below image) -- one On Porter Street, Cleveland Park  Trash Kingdom of Plastic Water Bottles -- two On Connecticut Avenue -- one humongous 50.7 FL OZ  PWB of Spring Water, with a label your blogger had never seen before, which states in part: &q

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  Nov.15, 2015 -- (Text, accompanied by a video, from ): President Donald Trump’s fumbling search for a water bottle stole the show from an extended defense of his trip to Asia that he delivered from the White House the day after he returned (image from ) *** During your blogger's 9/24 strolling/jogging trek in the Cleveland Park area of Washington DC in search of PWBs (plastic water bottles) to pick up (and dispose of, in public waste receptacles) -- part of his near-daily AM 70-min en plein air  exercise in that neighborhood of the Imperial Capital -- he made an extraordinary discovery in the annals of his PWBs-junk collection: He found five PWBs on the south side of Tilden Street (between its intersection with Connecticut Avenue and Spring of Freedom Road ), the greatest number of such pollutin

Political institutions may be more divided than they’ve been in a century and a half, but how divided are Americans themselves? The Lackawanna County Courthouse in Scranton, Pa., with an Italian food festival nearby. By  Sabrina Tavernise  and  Nate Cohn , The New York Times (9/24/2019) SCRANTON, Pa. — This hilly, green stretch of northeastern Pennsylvania is a critical front line in next year’s battle for control of the country. Donald J. Trump made huge gains among white working-class voters here, and Democrats want to win them back. Joe Biden, who was born here, can’t stop talking about it. But just because Mr. Biden can’t stop talking about Scranton doesn’t mean everyone in Scranton is talking about Mr. Biden, the president, or politics at all. In three days of interviews here recently, many people said they were just scraping by and didn’t have a lot of patience for politics. Many said they didn’t follow the news and tried to stay out of