There is something in the air this morning. It is not rain, for a change. The skies have cleared and there should be an optimistic stride in our steps. The Big Pink pool is open, today and tomorrow; and again for the swan song next weekend. For good or for ill, the Big Proposal goes […]

(NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite took a stunning image of 4 tropical systems in the Atlantic on Sept. 8, 2011. Hurricane Katia in the western Atlantic; Tropical Storm Lee’s remnants are battering Arlington and Big Pink with a specific and credible amount of moisture; Tropical Storm Maria is well organized in the central Atlantic; and newborn Tropical […]

It rained and rained and rained. Five inches in Arlington; the District was saturated and the streets flooded. The storm had no name, and lasted longer than the last one that did- great greats of gray water that kept coming like the Monsoons that washed away Yongsan Garrison when I lived in Seoul. I had […]

Three o’clock, wide-awake. There was a bit of work unfolded next to the computer and it nagged at me in the darkness. I gave up and padded out to the balcony to see if it was still raining. I found myself in the cloud- the rain faint, the night air impenetrable and completely saturated. I […]

Funny how just a few hours can carry you over such a great chasm. I dripped into the unit at Big Pink just about one this morning, the sweetness of the victory tempered by the bone-deep chill from the dank pervasive rain. I shook the parka off the balcony and left it draped over an […]

I am completely behind now, and won’t get to the story at all this morning, not that there is much left of it. I wound up on perusing one of the climate pages and tumbled headlong into a vicious attack on Viscount Christopher Monckton’s views on the science pertaining to what has, sequentially, been known […]

I went down early last night- the combination of the Saturday at the office, the birthday party for the 89-year-old former Clandestine Agent, who looks like butter would not melt in her mouth, and the subsequent hour-long swim in the cool blue waters left me drained. I got up to the raucous Indy rock from […]

I am way behind this morning. Impossibly so; I got up at the usual time this morning, but decided to go back to bed- I had made the mistake of attempting to watch The Dark Knight on DVD and predictable happened there in the brown chair near the door: I came to consciousness around 0200 […]

  “The Libyan people cannot kneel, cannot surrender; we are not women,” – –      –  Madcap Despot Muhammar Qaddafy in an audio recording broadcast on al-Rai, a Syrian national public media outlet. Muhammar Qaddafy is hanging on to his freedom, at the moment, anyway, and his thug buddies in the Assad Administration are continuing to […]

The President is back from vacation, and focused on the urgent need to create jobs and grow our economy. I heard that he welcomes the opportunity to address a Joint Session of Congress next week. They say he is going to “challenge our nation’s leaders to start focusing 100 percent of their attention on doing […]