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The number of flashing red lights is past the critical stage. We had a solid “red” on the I&W deck already. We are now watching the start of tactical deployment. The consensus at Refuge Farm’s Writer’s Section thinks it likely that it is war next week. The Russian ground exercise in Belarus is in progress […]
Editor’s Note: Minor chaos at The Farm this morning. Joyful but tinged with more mildly alarming financial news from the Fed. First off, and with joy, Marlow and W have a postscript to their rumination about rural rambling. Here in Culpeper? A Presidential visit to our little town yesterday presented the divide in current American […]
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Splash was up early and went outside in the pre-dawn. The local temperature sensor claimed it was 22 degrees, fully ten below freezing under clear skies. Whatever that drone thing is that appears in the evening sky still blinked prominently to the east as the real stars faded in the growing light. He closed the […]
we’re in the middle of nowhere (and we feel fine) a road to the middle of nowhere Editor’s Note: Funny where you wind up, ain’t it? Marlow and W continue an exploration of their Coastal Empire this morning… – Vic Author’s note: In some ways my recollections of W’s and my back country Georgia road […]
Author’s Note: This goes with sunset, not sunrise, but My Muse doesn’t seem to care what time it is… – Arrias My Dancer The sun was slowly setting, when she began to dance, Alone, on the pier, eyes closed, as if in a trance. Her arms up over her head, her hips slowly swayed, To […]
This is a heck of a week. The number one issue was local, which is a little surprising, since one of the issues on the screen DeMille left on the tablet at his seat by the fire read “War in Europe?” He had departed the cozy space by the nice fire Melissa had started. He […]
( Our Expert Guide at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, 12 May 1998). Many of us Old Salts have heard of what is becoming known as “Mal-Mis-Dis Information.” Our Government has declared what goes on as a sort of domestic unpleasantness verging on something bigger. That is sort of an unusual place to find ourselves […]
They want us all to know they are the smartest of all, The most perceptive and clever, and with powerful recall. They have at their fingertips a cornucopia of facts, And options to cover everything, no matter how Putin acts. They understand China even better than Master Xi, After all they went to some Ivy […]