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 […]

Hurricane Idalia did a quick roar yesterday across Florida, curling north and east as her strength diminished back to Tropical Storm intensity. Our pals in Tidewater said it rained all night after we watched a day filled with images of male and female reporters standing in water below their knees. It was soggy reporting, but […]

(At the attachment is Hurricane Idalia, depicted from NOAA orbital sensors at left, in the Metro map track in the middle, and a view from the Tampa Bay beach down in Florida. This storm is part of a seasonal cavalcade of gray blowing energy. Last night, with the storm intensifying, we “heard the words.” Again. […]

(America On Line- “AOL”- recently stripped some of the functionality of their old operating system. Accordingly, the image of the protest on State Road-447 out in Nevada is attached only for identification purposes). The kids appear to be back in school here “north of Richmond.” Congress is threatening to return to that area as well, […]