You may or may not have noticed that, due to factors beyond my control, this site has been down for the better part of a month. Additionally, it is quite possible that I have lost as much as a third of its archives for good (I suppose that’s what I get for not adequately backing-up [...]

Happy 2008 everyone! Amazingly another year has past again, and we’re now entering the second part of winter and edging slowly but surely toward spring. Characteristically, a cold front has descended on DC, and the temperatures have fallen to into the 20’s. Whispers of “snow” are on everyone’s lips, and those in [...]