Meredith Shiner at Yahoo Politics published an awesome piece about a time when members would work together … to shoot hoops.

“Eventually, the Four O’Clock Caucus, also known as the Members Basketball Association (MBA), would disband, with many of its alumni rising up the ranks to run Washington. But in that bygone era of the 1980s, these relative political unknowns who elbowed each other out of the way for rebounds instead of out of the sight of news cameras experienced something special, a fading time of comity and camaraderie that made That Town a better place than This Town.“

The whole thing is worth a read over at Yahoo.