There is something magical in the country, watching the Earth produce whatever particular glory it chooses to brighten the morning. Loma was late for the pre-meeting today. He had been next door attempting to negotiate for some fresh eggs from the Russians, and got a dozen nice ones. It is useful that people around the […]

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 […]