The sun is out for the first time since last week. The emotion attached to the Big Holiday is sort of strange. Odd, you might say. Or capitalize it. This morning was jarring. Miles has the flatscreen on Channel 72—the Faux News feed—since their bias is balanced by the fact that we can see it, […]

We arrived at a crisis of unidentified proportions yesterday. The robots have arrived. We stumbled across the news on GeekWire, a new source recommended by some shipmates drifting through the electronic ether. The story touched on something we have been wondering about ever since we had to wheel Vic around in that rolling contraption from […]

(This is Rosie, her parents, the Harringtons, and Deridre and a glimmer of what might be on the grill as we open up the 250th 4th of July!) There is some stuff going on overseas this morning, nominally a US response to Iran drone strikes on a container ship, and we whacked three or four […]

Goodness, what a start to a jumbled day. There were still little digital bits of Tuesday dangling in Thursday’s inbox, all demanding attention. There is a mountain of material to cover—or ignore. We’ll let you decide. The Democratic Party primaries produced three strongly progressive candidates who appear well-positioned in their heavily Democratic districts this November. […]

The first thing to think about with holes is whether you are in one. Second might be to consider stop digging and climb out and see what the situation is out there. We just had a demonstration of a national effort on the flat screen in the conference room with a parade of bureaucrats. They […]

It’s on your computer keyboard and your smartphone screen: QWERTY, the first six letters of the top row of the standard keyboard layout. The lightbulb might be one of those things we can directly attribute to the genius of a single man, Thomas Alva Edison. The thing we use nearly as much is a mystery, […]

We were going to putout a special Edition last night after the polls closed on the primary election in the Twenty-Minute County nexxt door. it is an exciting time here, since these figures have announced some pretty startling plans. Here they are, to start: In general order, Councilman McDuffie promises more of the same, with […]

You can see what was happening at the Production Meeting this morning at Socotra House. The group is a little short with Section Leader MIles off on a working group on resumption of oil traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Splash claims to be doing elsewhere and it is clear Rocket would prefer to be […]