So, as Arthur Miller reminded us about Willy Loman, another lost soul, "attention must be paid" to McVeigh's particular views. [read post]

  Further and more detailed project design modifications were made after the RDEIR and analyzed in the final EIR (FEIR), and these changes included the new Annex’s exterior design, a “Double-T” configuration with a mostly-glass exterior with a partial ceramic coating, described as a “white frit” pattern, to control heat gain and glare and integrate more closely in color to the Historic Capitol. [read post]

Senate adopted a resolution requiring male senators to wear a coat, tie, and slacks or other long pants on the chamber’s floor following days of upheaval sparked by Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s decision to stop enforcing the requirement of business attire. [read post]

. * 1649: Sir Arthur Aston, Royalist commander of the garrison during the Siege of Drogheda, was beaten to death with his own wooden leg, which the Parliamentarian soldiers thought concealed golden coins. * 1660: Thomas Urquhart, Scottish aristocrat, polymath and first translator of Rabelais into English, is said to have died laughing upon hearing that Charles II had taken the throne. * 1671: François Vatel, chef to Louis XIV, committed suicide because his seafood… [read post]