The election is bearing down, and today’s media is leading us into it. Cleaning out old files, I found something long forgotten about how it worked. It was a sheaf of notes nineteen years old. It was stunning, reading about how this current reality was formed. The wounds of 9/11 were still raw and everyone […]

Marlow’s Note: Whenever America’s leaders point to what it values or way of life as being be threatened or directly attached, we can count on our working white Americans to go off in a homicidal swarm to “defend our way of life.” This is not just for cases of kinetic warfare. It’s a proven theorem […]

Editor’s Note: Want the cartoon version? Several pals have been batting that around. It goes something like this for likelihood. Mr. Biden will do the best his handlers can manage. I have tried to mange the affairs of people who had varieties of progressive cognitive decline. This campaign incorporates many aspects of it. So, first […]

Today is like the 210th rainy day in the Commonwealth of this wild and not so wonderful year. A Monday, in fact, which used to have a special significance in the working week. The beginning of the daunting mass of tasks, memos, calls and conversations to manage over the other four days. All of which […]

Events, as they used to say as a bridge in the old motion picture serial adventures, continue. Some don’t. As you know, I am following the wild chaos of the election with great interest and more than a little humor. My experience in generating favorable public messaging ran alongside the real political pros, and I […]

It has been a great week- a confluence of natural and other events that is quite remarkable. The Big Storm- this one is Laura- came ashore in Louisiana long after I surrendered and went to bed. I slept through the weakening of the maelstrom from Cat Four + down to Cat One as it plowed […]

Gentle Readers, This special issue of The Daily does not mark a change in our editorial policy of restricting those irritating ads and random screen clutter. It marks something else entirely. A new adventure! As you may have noticed over the last couple decades, I have been fascinated by how the vast global system works. […]