About Town

Extracting some juice from D.C.

I've told you how I’m really hoping and sort of trying to like Washington, D.C., and how I have found some compensations for its drawbacks. For one thing, I’ve been here long enough that I can feel comfortable complaining about how it’s getting worse. For instance, one of the unalloyed good things about the place, the little barges and shacks of the Mun…