This Is The Soup To Help Ease Into The 2028 Campaign… Some soups warm you up. Others feel as though they were made specifically to welcome you into the next two years of strife on a variety of issues here at home as we approach the post-Trump populist change. Splash’s Warm-Up Soup belongs firmly in […]

Screenshot 2026-11-04 at 6.59.09 AM.png The smoke rising from the impact area at the Capitol as the election returns rolled in last night blew almost wholey to the northeast, drifting from the nation’s legislative center toward its financial center in New York. We suspect there were some interesting conversations taking place along Wall Street before the […]

Afternoon Edition NOW, What? There seemed to be a nod toward bipartisanship from both sides this morning. We thought we heard one from Texas, and something answering it from Trump in the Ballroom. Tone counts. So do the pauses between the words. Whether any of it survives contact with the lawyers is another matter. They […]

Sorry to Keep You Waiting, Mom! On an Election Day morning, with the televisions preparing to explain our fate, the Crowd found something else worth watching: a man finally getting home. Yesterday, outside a row house in Hull, in England’s East Riding of Yorkshire, a banner announced: “Welcome Home Son.” The son was Karl Bushby, […]

We are just closing out the last Big Day in this mid-term electoral process. it is a strange one with all sorts of new bells and whistles bought with the most expensive election ever financed in the Americas. They normally pass with the result expressing the voter’s mild disappointment with what they did two years […]

The above is a sample of the emotional news coming out of Michigan this morning. Best video coverage from Vic’s alma mater in Ann Arbor featured a petite young Asian student attacking another woman who was described as a “Jewish Influencer.” That is another in a cascade of modern terms we don’t claim to completely […]

The Wyoming Bar in Rawlins, WYO, served whiskey, cigars and rented rooms for 136 years. This winter it comes down, and with it the last original building on Front Street. The Wyoming Bar in its tavern days. (Carbon County Museum) Tomorrow? An election or something. In 1900, the trains pulled into Rawlins right across the […]

The extra hour tucked into the small ones this morning was supposed to give us time to lie around and decompress after the remarkable series of celebrations and celestial events that carried us through Summer and came roaring into Fall. Instead, it gave us a chance to feel jet-lagged before Happy Hour. As you can […]

VIC Falls Back to Killer Garlic Shrimp Soup Vic’s Creamy Shrimp & Potato with Cauliflower in the Supporting Cast Prep Time: 40 Minutes Yield: 6-8 Servings (Double portions for shift change meals) The clocks had fallen back overnight, and the November morning arrived with an extra hour that nobody at the Conference Table seemed entirely […]

  I have been cooking and entertaining for months, and I need a break. We did Halloween yesterday, but I still have people to feed after the Michigan–Rutgers game, which featured a gridiron confrontation between two of the top three teams that have played the college game since it was inaugurated here. There was a […]