Editor’s note: The speculation about what the Russian aggressiveness toward U.S. Naval ships in the Baltic has had many agog of late. The spike of interest in Russian interest brought memories back to some old Shipmates, including the irrepressible Point Loma. He contributes this account of life on the bounding waves- with Russians- to the […]

(One of the places the Amber Room has rested. This one is what used to be Koenigsburg, in the former East Prussia, now Kaliningrad, the city of Kant now named for a Soviet Apparatchik). They may have found it. Buried treasure worth millions, a traveling moveable feast from the darkest days one can imagine, including […]

May Sot is a sweaty little town halfway up the Thai border with Burma. I was listening to the radio in bed. A Correspondent was up there reporting on the misery of the Karen refugees, persecuted by the thug gerontocracy of the rulers of what they called “Myanmar,” and I heard his words from the […]

I was sitting alone at The Front Page last night, flirting with the lovely Kristina, daughter of a real Frog Man, a term favored by some of the early SEALs, to demonstrate their heritage. I was not flirting that hard- Kristina was born in the early 1990s, so she is in no danger of falling […]

Annie saved my butt today. I was out of airspeed and ideas after completing an impressive list of action items that included nothing either vaguely humorous of slyly ironic, unless you call my surreal interaction with the three major credit reporting bureaus to be such, or the obituary for one of our colleagues who passed […]

OK- I am a bum. I freely admit it. I was still toasted from the road, spent Friday trying to recover from being awake in all the small hours of Friday morning. I took my time getting down to the Farm on Saturday, luxuriating in the magnificence of the sun and final banishment of the […]

(A couple classics at the Kokomo Auto Museum: Joe’s Javelin and Todd’s American rag-top on the road to Kokomo last Friday). If there was ever a demonstration of the simple fact that I am not the man I once was (though still pretty good once, I hasten to add), it was the road trip to […]