Greetings and Salutations!

Calling All Economists!

In a previous harangue among our beloved Vagabonds I floated the idea that America should pass a law stating that jobs should not be exported to countries that do not allow Collective Bargaining. I would now like to invite those enonomic wizards smarter than I am to share their thoughts on such a proposition. Simply hit the comments button below, and let’er rip!

Mark Zaid Is My Hero

Mark Zaid was given a traffic ticket in Montgomery County, MD, recently for flashing his headlights back in thanks to a driver who warned him about a speed trap. He was fined fifty bucks. He took it to court and won when the officer failed to appear.

Anna Nicole by Grace Cavalieri

“You were positively loathsome,” theatre-goers said as they shook James J Patterson’s hand while exiting the Al Lefcowitz Theatre at The Writer’s Center, in Bethesda, Md, after viewing a staged reading of the new play Anna Nicole, by Grace Cavalieri.

See a brief review and pictures here!

Patterson Reads at the 2009 Oxford Fringe Festival!

Every spring, Oxford University puts on a literary festival like no other, and the legendary Blackwell’s Book Shop, lead by the incomparable Rita Ricketts,
sponsors a Fringe Festival to coincide with it.This year, James J Patterson read from his forthcoming book of essays and fiction, Bermuda Shorts, a little story called, “Something Out of Nothing.”

Honk If You Want Rush Limbaugh To Fail!

Republicans have become like mean little Boy Scouts gone wrong. They no longer wish to help granny cross the street, they won’t share their desert, and they refuse to sit with the foreign kid at school. Now, like mean little brats, they openly decree that if they can’t play Captain, they want to sink the boat?

Welcome to Chicago East, AKA, Washington, DC!

Where it’s cool to be hip, smart, and Liberal again, at last!