Editor’s Note: There is plenty to talk about this morning, but the Infrastructure Bill- the ‘bi-partisan’ version of it is 2,700 pages and no one has read it, specifically referring to the people who are about to pass it and make law out of what the lobbyists gave them. I like the part that includes […]

Vic turned 70 this year, most of the way to the shrinking life expectancy in COVID times. In attempting to shrink the footprint of the eventual estate, several imposing piles of papers emerged. Most dealt with financial events from decades past. They yearn for treatment in the fire-pit out front of the modest home in […]

(A replica of the Field Marshal’s baton that belonged to Field Marshal Kesselring. It is part of a trove of imaginary recreations of objects from very bad times that seems to have a continuing market in these interesting times. It features in the tale of the Field Marshal’s Daughter, part of the introduction to a […]

A pal sent a note this morning about crime in California. There apparently is a lot swirling around in the Golden State at the moment, and it is not all out on the Left Coast. Here in The Swamp it is about money to keep this labyrinth moving. Out there, Governor Newsom is subject to […]

It’s the baseball team, “Samurai japan”, that has been capturing the attention and hearts of the Japanese …. they beat arch-rival Korea last night and are set-up for the championship (Gold/Silver) game this weekend …. Team USA has also been doing well, and plays a wild-card game against Korea tonight, with the winner going to […]

(This is a somewhat deformed image captured from the weather deck of the USS Midway (CV-41) in 1978 or 1979. That I was able to capture it suggests the ship was orbiting somewhere awaiting tug support to enter port. It would likely have have been outside Yokosuka or Subic Bay, but I can’t tell you […]