In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

It's not something we've forgotten about. We have had some casual conversations about it this fall, but it hasn't been a big topic.

I think it will be awhile before we have casual conversations like this with our computers, ... but I think we're getting there much faster than we might have thought.

He is the highlight of many late-afternoon casual conversations in the clubhouse.

I swear if Washington moved any slower, we could be at war and it would all be over before they could even lift their sluggish, naked, dead asses off of their comfortable heated-seat toilets. -Fitzhugh to Captain Jeeter