This is the view from the North East corner of Socotra Island, looking west. It is where some of this nonsense started when some of the current grand stand of people arrived to cheer the misadventures as the Persians and the Americans do their joustings at one another. And jeer. The ‘news’ from here is […]

This is where I left the story in 2011. You can see the Pentagon façade just under the overhang to the left. It is where the jet came in a quarter-century ago. The old Navy Exchange gas station was located at what was called Quarters K, a name left from the old Army layout on […]

What is a galley proof? Galley proofs are books in the pre-publication stage, sent around to interested folks who might want to review what is coming before the final version goes to print. Vic claims to have worked for McGraw-Hill in a previous century, and he reminds us that publishers used to send the things […]

  Word Spread over the weekend that the parasitic infection that has affected thousands of consumers across the country with severe gastro-intestinal ailments. It was attributed yesterday by officials at the Food and Drug Administration as being transmitted by chopped lettuce products served at Taco Bell and provided by Taylor Farms de Mexico. Today, that […]

Right? We lurched unsteadily through yesterday’s coverage of what was, arguably, one of the largest shared human events in history. They say a billion of us watched—a thousand million people around the globe taking part in the same emotional, bewildering spectacle. Madonna, Shakira, Justin Bieber and BTS represented the cultural diversity celebrated throughout the FIFA […]

England defeated France, 6-4, in Atlanta yesterday afternoon to claim Third Place in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Parisians finished fourth after a tournament run that was considerably more impressive than the phrase “finished fourth” makes it sound. But that leaves only the REAL END to the athletic spectacles of the last three months. […]

There was a certain amount of controversy in the Conference Room this morning. Splash said three of the Zoomers actually took the Uber to Dulles and may be fetching up on the soil of France in order to celebrte Bastille Day tomorrow. You know about that significant demonstration of the People’s Liberty by crshing into […]

There was a shocker in the headlines this morning, and it had the Boomers gathered in the Conference Room. The average age of the group is somewhere in the mid-70s, so the news that South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham had passed away suddenly yesterday came as a genuine surprise. His office announced that he died […]

Dad’s WW II Cartoons: “Gremlin Gazette’ Afternoon, Gentle Readers! A curious thing happened after a cheery celebratory digestive id inadvertently sloshed itself over the old Laptop. Although it eventually dried out over the months of June and July, but the office situation was becoming a major irritant, There was a hasty effort to replace it, […]