Section Leader Miles asked me to do a quick line and block diagram on the new Department of War now that Secretary Hegseth has bolted on the new Space and AI wings onto it. That was done before lunch yesterday, but you can see there was some afternoon leakage over at Fort Meade, headquarters of […]

Well, as I explained this morning, you can see the new War Department block diagram had things pretty well laid out with the new Space Force shield entered in and the circles of authority all orbiting properly in their arcs around Secretary Pete. And all those other centers of gravity of with revolving careers and […]

We are way behind this afternoon with the announcement yesterday from Secretary lf War Pete Hegseth about the status of Pitiffuk Space Force Base, formerly Thule Strategic Air Command Base. up on Greenland’s upper west coast. Miles just asked us to do a quick line diagram on what the Department we served looks like these […]

The map was never supposed to actually be the territory in question. You can see how quickly we got off track this morning with the commotion over the relative size of the world’s largest island. The projection we are used to is the one above on the left, and if has places like New York […]

We used to know where ‘Thule’ was. It was a term used to describe a place so far away as to almost unimaginable. Then, they changed the name to one that sounds more like a car tire being chopped open with a hatchet. Anyway, it went along with some of the other noise on the […]

We still have subscriptions to the two old Papers of Record, the Post and the Times, although we no longer start our days poring over their columns. Or, for that matter, remembering the passwords required to read much below the headlines. We did manage to get into one of the articles yesterday because it cut […]

There is a certain rhythm to September around Socotra House that we are only beginning to understand. Yesterday, we were wrapping the Autumn Olive tenderloins in enough bacon to alarm the Finance Section, while Rocket appeared unusually willing to assist Holly’s visiting Ciocia Ala with anything requiring close supervision. Today the pork is mostly memory, […]

Don’t get me wrong- I appreciate Holly’s Aunt Aly being here to share some of the creation time! I am using her visit to catch up on the Michigan Senate race with that wild-man for the Dailies and the Dance-offs while I get some longer shelf-life items put away for the Fall weekends. Aly’s real […]

THE BALLOT IS HERE Early voting in Virginia begins tomorrow. We took a poll and have decided to go in person over to the North County Governmental Center over in Reston around this time next week when they have got things organized and we can present photo identification and be done with our part in […]

This is a man to follow. He is clearly a man on the move. President Donald Trump nominated Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) for the role of U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia on Sept. 14, in a bid to fill a post that has been vacant since the start of his second term. Hunt’s nomination was […]