​Chris Bott;​Peter Obrien;​kalmnoll@protonmail.com;​Joe Mazzafro;​JAMES MUELLER;​Philip Eakin;​Vincent Fragomene;​Ed McDaniel;​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Inline image We have largely been concerned with Iran’s instruments of military power. There has been only moderate success in moderating the behavior of the Iranian regime, one which some of us have opposed- mentally and physically-for almost. half century. Today marks the change to something different. […]

We shared the afternoon with 82-year-old Mick Jagger presiding over one of the most dramatic sporting events most of us have ever watched. I generally don’t pay much attention to what is happening in the Conference Room except to know when the crowd is becoming restless for nourishment. There was a distinctly generational vibe to […]

There have been some baffled remarks in the Conference Room lately about some things that have been happening in a minor professional sport. It is the Women’s National Basketball League, and recent events there have been pretty amazing. Sophie Cunningham and Kaitlin Clarke are the headliners in the news, as Sophie made her graphic statement […]

Morning! Our learned compadre Vic was an exchange student back in his college days, which was a fancy way of saying he worked as a farm hand on a cattle ranch southeast of Oslo in 1971. Accordingly, he has been doing the Viking Rowing thing ever since it looked like Norway might make a deep […]

I saw a suggestion yesterday that the bison attack on the tourist Grandpa at Yellowstone was actually a trial for a new ad on suspenders. “Always reliable in the challenging circumstances!”  

05/06/1966 Has Hi-Fi Recipe File! By HERMINE MARIAUX, Special to The New York Times Kitchen for the Future Has Hi-Fi Recipe File CHICAGO, Jan. 5, 1966 — William E. Reddig, design director for the Kelvinator Company, has constructed a “Rogue’s Galley” to which even the owner’s girl friends may be summoned by pushbutton. The hexagonal […]