(The Mayflower at anchor, 1620). No blast this morning, unless it is the faint echo of something that happened four hundred years ago on a creaky sailing ship in a chill New England fall. The Mayflower. The Compact that identified a company of free people doing something new. Not like that 1619 nonsense designed to […]

God, I never thought we would see a spectacle like this. In the aftermath of the strange election, we are seeing court challenges orchestrated through state courts and federal benches. It is exciting to watch this play out! It is a new form of Democracy, right here in America. The media coronation of the new […]

Gentle Readers, Some thoughts from a pal on the 11th… Armistice November 11th is now referred to as Veteran’s Day. But it’s worth remembering that it all began as Armistice Day, on the first anniversary of the Armistice of November 11th, 1918, which brought to a close the horrible spectacle of World War I. The […]

After a glorious week of Autumnal beauty, we are back to rain on a special day. I doubt that many schools teach the hypnotic old line about ending the biggest and most destructive conflict in human history. Well, at least until the next one happened. But the thing about The Great War was that it […]

Editor’s Note: It is still the remarkable first week in November here in the present. This popped up in the old files as a sample of what used to be a normal part of the work day. It was useful to help remind me that things are always a little complicated in The Swamp. Here […]