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Behold, the rising star of Mexico politics: Hilario Gutierrez.

Hilario was one of my husband’s grad school roommates. Besides being a great roommate, movie matinée date, tostada-maker, and the best train-dance leader in the Western Hemisphere… he is now a rising star in Mexico politics. Hilario won the first round in the primary-type things for mayor of Playa del Carmen. Go Hilario!

Here is some sort of article about Hilario a la presidencia municipal de Solidaridad. I have no idea what it means.

Here are some pictures that will make you wish you were the mayor of Playa del Carmen, or at least a visitor, on this gray, rainy day in DC.

Larry Craig (R-Idaho) just said this on the Senate floor: “We all like what we like until we can’t afford liking them anymore.”

Mmm, hmmm. We know it, Larry Craig.

(OK, to be fair, he did say that in the context of a speech about SUVs and high gas prices and celluLOSE, not sexual rendezvous in bathrooms.)

We saw Tamburlaine at the Shakespeare Theatre Company last night. Tamburlaine was the first play of Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of our friend Shakespeare. The cool kids at Shakespeare Co. are running it and Edward II, Marlowe’s last play, in repertory to kick off their first season in their big new fancy auditorium that will allow them to do cool things … like run two plays at once.
Tamburlaine is a jolly little holiday play about a lowly shepherd who takes over the world through cunning and force and bloody terror. I can’t say I particularly enjoyed it … but the costumes were beautiful.