(Globe and Anchor CEO Herley, preparing for mission insertion). OK- I was doing my part in the Ground Game this morning, and drove a pal to the absentee-in-person Early Voting polling station near the Courthouse Metro stop on the Orange Line. That seemed more important than the Daily Story, which had the editorial bullpen in […]

(The Front Page National Lay-Off Appreciation Day crowd applauds the loss of Jon’s income. L-R, JPeter (father was a legendary Christians In Action Chief of Station), Keith the Master Mounter (from the Smithsonian), Liz-with-an-S, Certified Fraud Examiner from the Office of the Inspector General Upstairs From the Bar rand former Mixologist from the fabulous Willow) […]

It was a slow and slightly disassociated weekend. I am still feeling like crap, kind of a low-grade motion sickness, and can’t tell if it is an effect of an over-ambitious social schedule or delayed reaction to the cautiously good news about the state of my general health. I came down to the farm after […]

I looked over at the time-hack on the menu bar to the computer and decided it was about time to get organized. I pulled the two tuxedos out of the closet and checked which jacket seemed to fit better, put the other one away, and looked at the single miniature military medal I would wear […]

This just in from an Old Japan Hand…. new special feature of the NIP on-line presence. We think it will be a useful connection to the Kanto Plain and the Tokyo-wan that many of us called home at one time, however briefly. This Old Japan Hand has a made a career of interpreting two amazing […]

Gentle Readers: if you were expecting a blow-by-blow on the Debate, or an account of how many sips and slugs it took to get through the drinking game to go along with it, you will be waiting a while. Possibly until one of the candidates accepts what is going to happen in the polls in […]

Bottoms up, Gentle Readers!

Well, I suppose we could talk about what the Terrible Candidates will try to pull off tonight in the last debate, and Mrs. Clinton gets ready to pack her bags for Disney World or wherever it is that successful candidates go. I was listening to the satellite radio on the way back from Physical Therapy, […]