Wow, if I’d known Biden was this good, I would have supported him in the primary. The campaign is brought out the fight and spirit in the man — he’s really transformed himself into an amazing speaker.

Give ‘em hell, Joe!

Fugazi is one of my favorite bands of all time. Here they are performing “Turnover” in Lafayette Park, near the White House, back in 1991:

And here they are at Ft. Reno Park in 1997. Tina and I were actually at this show (trivia alert: we’d been married at a courthouse in Upper Marlboro, MD just a few hours before), and we both remember Ian’s speech about D.C.:

It’s surprising how much youthful nostalgia lives on YouTube. Velocity Girl were a modestly successful DC indie rock band in the mid-1990′s, but legendary around these parts in those days. I was recently at someone’s house and Archie Moore, who was Velocity Girl’s guitar player, was there. It was a bit weird.

I remember walking around the University of Maryland campus, listening to Velocity Girl’s “Copacetic” LP on my brick-heavy “portable” CD player. They weren’t my favorite band by any stretch of the imagination, but I liked them. Their music holds up surprisingly well, too. One of the few bands I liked back then that I’ve never seen live.

Although I’ve always disagreed with Robert Novak, I’ve always enjoyed his columns. He wasn’t always right, but if you wanted to read interesting columns about what the Republicans were secretly thinking, that was the place to go.

This week, he writes about his cancer in The Washington Post, as well as the surprising support he’s found from people he didn’t expect. Definitely worth a look.