(1966 Album by the Mamas and the Pappas. We have to change the lyrics a bit to adjust to the individual year. AOL, our internet provider, does not want us to be able to insert the image for reasons best known to themselves). So here we are. Sunday! Damn, that was startling. We were humming […]

(New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham). You probably know the theme for this morning just from the title. There had been some indications the Central Government was going to take us back to emergency rule for the next iteration of the COVID pandemic. We got tired of it last time in fairly short order. We […]

We are doing some controversy out on The Patio this morning. We do not claim to have any particular insight into what is happening at your place, but one of the major legacy media markets had one of those bottom-screen creeping headlines crawling across the screen announcing it was a slow news day. Placing the […]

Some of us had careers that started out with avoidance. There were a variety of strategies involved with the strategy of not winding up as an eighteen year old with a rifle. Most of our excuses involved the college deferment, so entry into uniform was only deferred, not eliminated. Graduating meant a four-year deferential between […]

Author’s Note: We are trying to wrap up the travel book. Work on that thing has spanned nearly a half century, and several of the participants have assumed room temperature. The news this week was capped with the sad news of the passing of famed calypso crooner Jimmy Buffett. We all shared him in unequal […]

We railed against the internet provider yesterday and the frustration of being unable to display the theme image for this week’s Weather Report right at the top of the story. That makes it a little easier to slide into the the top of the story heap on the day after a national holiday. You will […]

(Footsteps at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert yesterday). We do not know what they are doing up at AOL dot Com. We called them up and a woman with one of the smaller voices explained they are doing something else at their media hosting enterprise. It is shaking our production schedule to […]

We got a tough one from the Chinese Thread with which we attempt to keep up. Tom Wade is a regular contributor, and it was his headline from last night that set things up. His note went like this: “Shipmates, Tonight, legions of Jimmy Buffett fans, in America and around the world, will be having […]

(Image attached for identification from Baltimore Sun). Author’s Note: The Baltimore Sun published this image to go along with reports indicating the City of Baltimore is demonstrating a few weaknesses in smooth and efficient management. All our footnotes stipulating respectful commentary are posted on our website, and we reiterate our respect for all policy-makers in […]