Morning- or afternoon!- from here in Arlington, Virginia. We are entertaining, hosting a luncheon here in Big Pink. Accordingly, we won’t talk about the special election in New York to replace that Soros fellow. We will not mention the big Russian landing ship the Ukrainians put under water off a former piece of their country […]

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We spent the first twenty minutes of the always abbreviated Sunday Staff Meeting trying to figure out the single most important event of a drizzling Sunday. No, it wasn’t about trying to figure out where the moisture was coming from. It might be the remnants of the big Vortex in the jet stream that deluged […]

We went direct to overload this morning. There was a series of unlikely events that came to full-boil yesterday. There are at least two wars in progress, in “U – – – – – e” and “G – – a,” and we may be in another in the R – d S – a. You […]

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Yeah, the topic of this week’s Weather Report is unsettled. There are troubling aspects to the seven-month prediction- what we use as a substitute framework for the ‘seven day’ cycle used on the flat-screen. We have a sample of an increasing phenomenon here in the Writer’s Circle: some of us are boycotting the news broadcasts […]

We have a clue this morning about who was behind all the controversy. They advertise it. But it had to go to “research” mode this morning since some of us were unconscious during the period described. It was an opportunity to try to link a couple parallel stories, one of which involved the University of […]

The excitement here is palpable! There are stories that the Administration may change their candidate as soon as May. That is unverified, of course, since that is the way journalism seems to work these days. There is some controversy about who might replace the incumbents. May is still at least three months away in this […]