The Writer’s Section is taking a certain distance on this war. It is the third one that has had a name in our personal experience. There were a few more that had “operational” names, and places with names. “GONZO Station” was one of those places. We spent 110 days there one time, waiting for something […]

We did not see some of the worst of yesterday until today. The depth of the carried-over horror featured stories about infant casualties- casualties intentionally inflicted on children. This is the fifth day of incalculable cruelty. We talked about the young woman’s face yesterday. Her eyes were distant as she was dragged by her hair […]

This morning brings us a new crop of horror from a War in progress. It is already sliding past mid-afternoon in the Eastern Mediterranean. More rockets were reported in the overnight hours there to bolster the horrific tempo of the day. As a group, we had no vivid memories of Gaza City from our only […]

There was some conversation on The Patio before the Production Meeting to line up what to inflict on you gentle readers over the course of this troubled week. We could do the numbers from the latest war. On this Monday, they are reporting an even “800” casualties in the fighting on the Gaza Strip. The […]

The money part of this is in play. For the first time since 1910 we have an “interim Speaker” in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since the House is supposed to be the cash register for government, there was muttering about how the new war is going to be affected by the vacancy in our […]

It was a respectable night’s sleep here at Big Pink. Nothing happened, which is another way of saying plenty of stuff was going on, just not here. That is a good thing, since rest is critical to the ability to respond. One of the Salts has adopted the abbreviation for that state as the name […]

“The alleged grown-ups get wrapped around the axle preserving the current system and don’t figure out how to support the changes that are beneficial. If there are any.” – Arrias Arrias summed it up nicely with a phrase that fits a lot of this morning’s situation briefing. Another traveler down this path is Mr. Bill […]

Quite the morning, wouldn’t you agree? The Big One is that the Administration was wrong about the Big Bad Border Wall. Apparently, we are going to build it after all. We had been selling it off for scrap, the small part that had actually been purchased by some other Administration and left to sit on […]

The GOP managed to get us going yesterday. We enjoyed the Nancy Pelosi Speaker show while it lasted. She had an imperious twinge to her reign that had an element of imperious rule to it. We enjoy spectacle and it is hard to argue that her tenure did not have it. What was surprising is […]

We had one Writer’s Section participant who was willing to talk about what happened to him, personally. That would be our Patient Zero- “PZ,” if you don’t mind. We are happy there were no other reported reactions to the vaccines, at least on The Patio, so there is the possibility that the events on PZ […]