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Feb. 13, 2010, is a red-letter day for this humble column. That was the Texas Tavern’s 80th birthday. And in a column promoting that, I disparaged the diner’s food. The reader reaction was astonishing. Half praised me to telling an uncomfortable truth they felt reluctant to utter. The other half lobbed accusations like “scurrilous liar,” and acted as if I’d hand-butchered a live cow in the middle of Church Avenue. I never thought that column would get a run for its money in terms of reader feedback. But one recent column about QAnon and militia nuttiness in Bedford Co...

Happy Marijuana Freedom Day in the commonwealth of Virginia! For the first time in generations, it’s legal for adults to possess small amounts of weed and to grow up to four marijuana plants. It’s also legal for them to (privately) consume the devil’s lettuce, but not to buy or sell the plant. Whether you realize it or not, this marks a sea change in Virginia politics. Surely you recall less than a decade ago, when Virginia’s attorney general tried to redraw the 1776 state seal because (gasp!) it depicts a bare boobie. We’ve come a long way from such paroxysms of prud...