We ran a short piece about “Build Back Better” this morning. Chairman Socotra sent a note down from the Big House, saying he was pleased we did not pick up on the still-hanging jury in the Karl Rittenhouse case in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He prefers to let the wheels of justice spin their merry way and […]

Thursday is a big morning at The Farm. The Writer’s Section is responsible for showing up- in person- to defend past production, defer erroneous predictions, and justify ones not yet proven to be false. The meeting is right before lunch, not after, since Management knows what is likely to happen after that. Increasingly, it is […]

Remember the Burma Shave signs? I know, I know. Only oldsters remember them in fact. Most folks do have a passing acquaintance with parodies from modern information campaigns, and naturally we pile on like everyone else. We had a talk about that in the pre-production meetings. It started, naturally enough, with the topic of “shaving,” […]

(Danny Fenster hugs mother Rose as Bill Richardson, right, looks on this morning. Danny was released from a Burmese jail yesterday after conviction by a military court last Friday, and immediately departed on a flight to the U.S. Press accounts indicate Bill escorted him on the flight, which accounts for why it was difficult to […]

(Journalist Danny Fenster, left, and Bill Richardson, right, celebrate liberation. Danny will not spend the next decade in a dank Burmese jail. He is headed home because of Bill’s efforts. Photo AP). Want a hero for a Monday morning? We have one for you. His name is Bill Richardson. He is one of our heroes. […]

Times being what they are, we were thinking about Formosa. That leads to part of the confusion. That large island is now known as “Taiwan,” and reflects some of the who-and-where parts of China’s rise. We are in the process of having another Formosa crisis with some new names. We do that periodically. When many […]