(1) 10 September …. Japan Environment Ministry said the only option available to dispose of treated radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is to release it into the Pacific Ocean …. The government will continue to have careful discussions on the matter …. Tokyo Electric Power Company is considering how to […]

I dunno either. I am glad to be living at Refuge Farm. The big deal down here was the raccoon that got squashed out on the County road, and the convention of turkey buzzards that convened to supervise the disposition of the remains. Actually, (and you know that metaphors come to me with ironic difficulty), […]

Yeah, I will admit that most right-thinking folks are a little bleary today. At least the ones that watched the Astros-Nationals game last night until midnight. I confess I watched every pitch of both games so far, a first for this Major League Season, and I was gratified that no pro-Hong Kong demonstrations erupted. The […]

Today, and forty years ago: 23 January, 1979 Wanchi Cherry Boy It all makes me feel a little sullied this morning, listening to the blather of absurdities we are supposed to believe. I have no idea if we are headed for times as troubling as 1968 was, and while exhilarating at times, mostly it was […]

Gentle Readers, An alert reader noted that Point Loma stood bridge watches on big ships. Most intelligence officers did not stand underway watches, since they are (were?) commissioned as Special Duty- Intelligence officers. That was not true in the Amphib Fleet. The leadership there felt an officer was an officer, and I recall visiting big-deck […]