No, not Direct Current or the comic books publisher. This one is the District of Columbia, where Sara and I are right now for the German Studies Association conference. She’s giving a paper on war memory objects and miniature models of bombed cities in Germany and Japan and I’m commenting. The other two papers, well, one doesn’t exist and the other was clearly thrown together without much thorough thought and polish. Our hotel is in Arlington,VA, so we aren’t that close to the home of the latest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, but plan to go in to town later for dinner. Maybe we’ll bump into him….

