If Section Leader Miles hadn’t been down with that accursed Long Covid thing, none of this would have happened. The Big Screen at the end of the Conference Room had apparently been left on an entertainment channel from 10:47 yesterday morning until something approaching 8:00 p.m. No news. No crawl. No emergencies. Just raw, unapologetic […]

Miles is down hard this morning. He made it to the last weekend of the year, but whatever that contagious thing is going around has hit him hard, sapping his energy and leaving him hacking fluid out of what is left of his lungs. He did not roll out of his rack with the gray […]

There was some unease this morning at the Conference Table. Miles was late, thinking the talk about the coming snow north of the Maryland line would be covered by the graphic Splash did yesterday about being a soldier without boots when your commanding General decides to cross the Delaware River. Turns out he was wrong […]

“Intifada. This piece of old Jerusalem Wall thrown through my cab window, 13 March 1990.” Section Leader Miles was not particularly energized this Friday. There was the usual post-holiday requirement to drag at least some of the alleged Creative Group back into the conference room to generate something timely to set up the last weekend […]

That slide was what Vic claimed was going to be his Christmas Eve, Eve contribution. He ran into Santa down at the Sled Shop where he was doing some last minute adjustments to the clean fusion power cell that will propel him across the globe, bringing treats to those on the Nice List and dropping […]

(On the Way to Manger Square, Bethlehem, 1990) It was 2008 at Big Pink, on the West bank of the Potomac River. I reached over and turned the station. I was starting to analyze the Somali threat, and what we got wrong in our adventure in Mogadishu a decade ago, and the sponsored Ethiopian invasion […]

We are starting the second week of Advent, and we hope you can help us remember it is no longer “Hope,” but the “Peace” that we can bring to our affairs on this small part of this Earth. Accordingly, we asked some of the Zoomers to do a short piece on where we live. The […]

(West Coast Guy, the Lovely Bea, and the indomitable Admiral Mac Showers in 2012, the year everything changed. The youngsters of World War II began their exit, and in the over the next few years they were all gone from this earth and on to others. We passed Arizona’s monument on the ferry each day […]

We hate to start a weekend with something technical, but we are attempting to understand the source of some of the strange stuff going on in news and messaging last week. We failed due to holiday festivities and because the shores along the vast torrent of cash is inconceivable to us ordinary citizens. And some […]

At 18:25 tonight, the sky over Fairfax County- and yours- pulled a stunt. The full moon cleared the rooftops in a hard white glare, bright enough to bleach the contrails that had been drifting east all afternoon. By chance — perfect, impossible chance — they crossed right over the moon, forming a giant asterisk in […]