The excitement was building all morning as the weather guessers tried to determine if the crowd was going to need umbrellas at Nationals Park. There were the usual promotions to help whip up the emotions of the fans- dollar hotdogs and free wifi- though the t-shirts were held back to give out at Saturday’s game. […]

So, Old Jim called and asked if I was coming out to play- I had been home all day, and decided it would be nice to get out in the open air on the way to a dark bar. Jim said he had a late lunch at Willow for business purposes and was still there, […]

First, let me tell you that I am not lazy. I am not lazy. Nor drunk, like the sailors in the image above. Not yet, anyway. I was up this morning in plenty of time to do all sorts of great stuff that you will not see, not because it isn’t endlessly fascinating, but because […]

(Final Jepordy question Monday involved my homeland. Screen shot from an alert reader in Ann Arbor.) What a day yesterday! It was filled with the remarkable, and the absurd- a perfect April Fools Day. Here is how nuts it was: I met someone who had a good experience with the Affordable Care Act! Stranger things […]

  (UCONN ties up the Spartans on the way to the Final Four. Picture USA Today) Fabulous day yesterday- I mean, they don’t get any better, do they? Oh, sure, the sky was gun-metal gray, the temperature stayed in the 40s, though the fresh breeze made it feel colder, and bands of rain continued to […]

  You don’t know what you got till it’s gone, they say. I guess that is true, but there is the corollary, of course. Sometimes you don’t know what you have until you actually look at it. I had a great morning with a Pal from up north- did the Clark Brothers stop and navigated […]

  Gentle Readers, I am a little short on time this morning, I am meeting a pal at Clarks this morning, 1000 sharp, on Route 29 south to the farm for an acquisition matter, and need to get my butt in gear. There is so much to talk about this morning that I became quite […]

There is an air of desperation in the Nation’s capital, and it has nothing to do with the thick gray skies and the persistent chill rain and the stubborn refusal of the temperature to climb out of the fifties. The miasma of charge and counter-charge is so thick that it is palpable, and I think […]

(The NATO logo and the flags of its member states.) So, this awful month is finally coming to an end. There were record low temperatures this morning, the major airports in the 20s under partly cloudy skies. They tell us the winds will back around to the south, and the gentle breezes will bring the […]

(ADM Bobby Ray Inman, USN. Naval Intelligence legend, he was the first intelligence specialist to ever make four stars. His national career went from Director of Naval Intelligence, to Director of the National Security Agency, and retired as an Admiral as Deputy DCI on my birthday in 1982. Photo CIA). OK- black ice out there […]