My view remains that dropping any name beats dropping none.

Does anyone actually care for her at all?

I feel like blurring out Terry's last name is unnecessary, considering I get about 100 Facebook messages from him every time I "attend" a Trouble @ Fred event.

Mary Cheney = Three headed dog who guards the gates of Hell.

I made a note of it.

Thanks Dan.

Dan & Terry in DC! So close I could feed you the good brownies. Have fun you guys - I recommend Equinox (so yummy) & the sushi @ Tono on Connecticut Ave..

Yeah. Mary Cheney makes people mad.

Terry has excellent taste.

@3 Given that Terry Miller on facebook has a portrait using that pic of Dan giving him a big ol' smooch upside the head, and this one has a different one (a gray baseball cap obscuring his features?), it's possible this is a private account.

Or else Terry changes his picture often.

@8 Ahh, I guess they are different. profiles or different Terrys. But, I'm still annoyed by getting all those damn FB messages.

Actually, now I'm curious what sort of software Dan's using. Assuming he took a screenshot on his smartphone (that looks like a smartphone -- iphone?) image, what software did he use to blur it on his smartphone? Of course, he might have just used his laptop given that trains have outlets...

Fun! I went to college with Mary. We were in the campus gay and lesbian (there were no bisexuals or transgendered people then...) group together. Back then her father was just the Secretary of Defense and had not yet declared himself Emperor Palpatine. She is exactly the kind of person you would imagine her to be.

Oh Terry, what are you wearing?!
It just screams rap music videos.

@6 I second the recommendation of Tono.

@8, found the guy. @3 is right, it's the Trouble at Fred person, who is definitely not Miller.

Dan y'all should have taken the Bolt bus to DC today like I did. Much cheaper than the train, outlets, and free wifi.

Dan, y'all should have taken the Bolt bus to DC today like I did. Much cheaper than the train, outlets, and free wifi. Plus I could have then (quietly) cheered for y'all since I missed your grand-marshaling due to being at The Normal Heart weeping and sometimes laughing.

This reminds me of the much-laughed-at "Prison Population Rising Despite a Drop in Crime" (paraphrase) NYT headline a few years back.

If ridership is at an all-time high, doesn't that mean Amtrak can get by without government funding?

The bus? Yuck. I'd rather drive - and I hate to drive. Good choice on the train.

And no, Luke dear. No passenger rail service has ever been profitable on its own. The private railroads depended on the mail contracts to heavily subsidized their passenger operations. When the post office pulled the contracts, the private railroads immediately filed to stop passenger service. That's how we ended up with Amtrak in the first place. Republican corporate welfate.

And keep in mind that Amtrak's entire annual subsidy is similar to a week of what it costs us to be in Afghanistan.

People like to ride the trains. People like national parks. People pay taxes. Can't some of those taxes that people pay go to things that are actually useful, and not the glorified welfare programs that we call the US military, the defense budget, the upper 2% of earners?

Point your moral outrage at something worth getting outraged about.

"Outrage"? smh