Gentle Readers, the Writers Section is out of sorts this morning. The bitter cold icicle driving south into the Nation’s east coast is implacable. The Lady in Red had her say, predicting a Nor’Easter to roll in over the next few days. More snow? She claims her models indicate it will happen to the I-95 […]

Author’s Note: I have attempted to be quiet about the pandemic. There has been enough chaos in our response to a virus, and an input from another viral outbreak seemed not to be helpful. But there have been differences. I remembered a strange time that was not mixed up in the partisan acrimony of an […]

It is a holiday today. The images from the flat screen tell us that is a good thing, since many people who would be otherwise be traveling to work will not. The snow and ice in our part of what used to be a Southern State will impede some commemorations, but it is one of […]

Morning! This is a day that starts with the temperatures hovering stubbornly in the upper teens. Skies gray, rippling with inadvertent menace. The Lady in Red from the flat screen says the freezing rain will arrive around noon. Morning is thus filled with small chores- more wood, of course, and the periodic glance from the […]

Splash crashed. It was sort of ironic, since an incident like that involving a lost multi-million dollar jet is where his callsign originally came from, but this one was caused by productive labor in the interest of the limited public good surrounded by the pastures to the south and the formal front gardens that ace […]

Editor’s Note: There is a bunch of stuff to talk about in Domestic issues to end the news cycle component of the week, but Legal has decided they want to review such pieces of- what are we calling it? “Satiric parody?”- to avoid anything subject to misinterpretation. The Writer’s section decided a visit to the […]