Blue Ridge tour report.

Yesterday’s drive was very nice. The weather was perfect, the views were just great, the towns were interesting, and the food was good. The best part was that it was all so close by. The entire trip was just 150 miles, and though we were visiting places wholly unfamiliar, we were never far from areas …

Augusta Republican feeding frenzy.

My daily dose of schadenfreude has come in the form of the utter disarray of the Augusta County Republican Party. The county’s Republicans are finally fed up with the right-wing looney tunes that are speaking for them, and a whopping five people are challenging the incumbent chair. The story gets more embarrassing from there. (As …