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The idea of using a crisis to make decisions that would otherwise never be allowed is not new. Kings and pharaohs and emperors of all stripes have been doing such things for millennia. Some have gone so far as to generate crises in order to provide the opportunity to “solve the crisis” and in solving […]
Gentle Readers, There is some real excitement at Refuge Farm on this bright new week! A new book has been issued from Socotra House LLC! It is one that encompasses a real and poignant sea story coupled with the awful consequences of Atomic Age technology. It came to us in a curious manner, and it […]
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When I stop for a train at an in-town Savannah RR crossing near our home, I see those lovely old boxcars with their faded painted lettering, those flat cars and those fat round tankers all lined up slowly rolling by, and I get quiet inside. I get what other men get from other things. I […]
There was a controversy that started when some of us were awake. It involved concerts held in the early 1970s, or events in a sea of the miasma of a half century of active life. There was a memory of a fellow named Rod Stewart, whose face framed with famous unruly hair appeared in the […]
Dear Gentle Readers, The Fire Ring is damp this morning and the Usual Suspects instead gathered in the Bunk House for fresh and richly brewed Chock Full o’ Nuts and idle banter. Splash provided one of the “Letters to the Editor” from the Coffee Company, which protested our misspelling a week or more ago, and […]
We have to do the Weather Report this week, and it looks a bit like the local forecast for last night. Maybe Thunderstorms, according to the Lady in Red on the flatscreen. She was taking about local weather in Washington, which we are supposed to believe is something universal, and ‘Maybe’ it is. There are […]
We are aware that times require change. For example, in ordinary correspondence, the footnotes now come first, in an effort to deflect potential consequences of a misunderstanding in meaning. We have tried to explain that as art of a phenomenon in which the meaning of former universally accepted meanings is change in mid-debate, and the […]
Editor’s Note: There was controversy at the Fire Ring this morning. The blue skies that bathed us in the sun’s glories are departing. Rain is returning. Amanda was concerned about some research that had been sparked by a visit to the National Cemetery here in Virginia’s Piedmont. That prompted an examination of some historic events […]