Latin Lesson: The word ‘solstice’ is derived from the Latin words “sol,” for sun, and “sistere,” meaning “to stand still.” The word ‘equinox’ comes from the collision of two Latin words: “aequus,” meaning equal, and “nox,” for night. Don’t confuse them or Jim Champagne will get irritated. Well, we made it. It happened around 10:58 […]

PRC President Xi and SecState Blinken meet on uneasy terms This is quite a week in terms of Sino-US relations. President Xi of China took the top seat in “candid discussions” with Pacific area players way out west, demonstrating a new assertion of leadership in global affairs. MSM Coverage did not reflect the dramatic demonstration […]

Above is Dad, preparing to go to war with Imperial Japan. Below, a little relaxation on his 80th birthday, most of the wars done. Quite a lot of adventures in between, roaring Navy aircraft and sleek Detroit auto designs. He raised a roaring family as well, and we smile to think of them on this […]

This chapter is over. The image above is from the 8th Floor of the Virginia Hospital Center, looking east toward the Potomac. The silver building at the upper right is another part of the medical complex where the prelude occurred. This one is from almost Reston. We knew what this one was going to be […]

The entire northeastern coast of our continent continues to battle smoke plumes moving south from more than 400 fires burning nup in the hills and woods we used to ski in lovely Quebec Province. The Commenting Class claims there are more than four hundred fires raging, and the reaction across the continent has been severe. […]

Ah, blessed confusion this morning! We harvest this week a multitude of “news” that we have ceased to follow as “breaking items.” Like you, we have been awaiting the start of the spring offensive in the eastern provinces of what used to be eastern Ukraine. Someone decided to blow the dam on the big river […]

This little tale is several yesterday’s ago, when I still traveled in the rivulets of turmoil created by the Agencies at Langley and the Pentagon. As opposed to yesterday, this seems like a day the goons are winning, sad after a day that started with such promise. I had a marvelous time at work, or […]

We got the news yesterday with the old picture of Robert Hansen, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation. He had been sentenced to Life in Prison some twenty-two years ago for deliberate espionage against this nation. Some of the materials he compromised were the basic data we used at the Fleet Ocean Surveillance Center Pacific […]