This is the morning in the week when our dislike for America On-Line’s decision to shed maintenance on their “classic” edition of the electronic communications system is the most irritating. In the old version, we could have dropped a copy of the one-page version of the report right after the title line so you could […]

1. The medical stuff disrupted the production schedule at Socotra House. This is is is first of two notes we were working on for the beginning of the next book: “A Little Traveling Music.” They are necessary to frame the real point of the narrative, which is not “Gee, look at these unique places!” but […]

Yep. We have some troubles this morning. As a group with experience in the maritime world, it comes as a bit of a surprise that it has such a nautical flavor. There are multiple powers here on our planet had have the capability of employing weapons of mass destruction to achieve foreign policy goals. It […]

The Cardio Doctor was firm. He was of the opinion that I ought to be dragging the larger portion of my body each week to a medical specialist who specializes in perfectly ordinary things. In this case, those are known as “feet.” The medical specialist is known by the area in which he operates. The […]

Considering there is nothing going on in these passing gray days in the National Capital Region there is an awful lot going on, you know? It is both personal and national, of course. The Legal Section added to the various impositions on their Intern, who has been muttering things like “Back to school coming soon, […]

This is August, the month in which the rich steamy temperatures are supposed to cloak us in moisture here north of the Tidewater of Virginia. Just last week were informed this is the warmest it has been in a couple hundred thousand years and there is something really troubling coming down the pike. This morning […]

At least it is with four new counts of fraud and obstruction. We don’t recall if it was this emotional when Truman spent years castigating Eisenhower, dragging him in front of a local court and attempted to have the General of the Army cast into the Federal correctional system. In handcuffs. We know, a better […]

There are several old pithy sayings about danger from the elected branch of our government. Right now, the ones that apply would have been Twain’s:”The citizen is only safe when Congress is not in session.” That theoretically happened last Friday, when Members were permitted to return to their Districts and raise money to support their […]