That thing in the Gulf? The hard-line Shia militarists in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard are under mounting pressure. We have supported the oil storage story for three weeks now. Technically, it holds. The Iranians appear to be running short of places to put the stuff, and they are improvising. They have guns, certainly, but they […]

Making a Simple Healthy Sandwich Our pal and Old Salt Santa rang the chimes on us early this afternoon. You know how these things go. We are proud to be consuers of good beef. Vic worked on a rnach raising Charlolais cattle for beef production, so we have some in-house experience in raising good animilas, […]

This was not in the production plan but it turned up in the transition of MIle’s old MacBook Pro to the new one. The sandwich below is one of a string of outstanding roast beef sandwiches Tracy O’grady would do at her fabulous Willow Restaurant on Fairfax Drive in Arlington. Kate Jansen is responsible for […]

This was a day for re-grouping here in DELMARVA. We could pour deep into it and spout some of the same nonsense spilling out of the flat screen but we will save some of ours. There is a great stream going between Seattle, Colorado Springs and San Diego we want to keep up with. In […]

With all the events in progress in this lovely morning, bright blue skies over a Virginia tossed innminor turmoil, it is appropriate to recall the passing of a good friend and shipmate. His many contributions in life are recalled with fondness. With a small group of boisterous contributors, he marked his passage through America’s Century […]

Not all endings arrive with gravity. Or in the Gulf… A busy morning, in the 4th Floor Conference Room at Socotra House in extreme north Fairfax County. It was draped over something weightier. The larger matters were already in motion—distant, consequential, unresolved. They will keep. They always do. The Smart Guys have adjusted their estimates […]

(Art: Socotra, WER and Chat) 51? We ran a story about our exploits on a Pub Crawl to re-awaekn memories of the old rip-roaring Adams-Morgan area of the District. That was going to be the opic this mrning, but it turned out we were all going back aross the brown Potomac to DC, just not […]

Tough afternoon here. Spring is back and literally pounding on the big windows that just got washed for the season. No kidding. It was what some of the afternoon resembled as we attempted to piece together what was happening in the Gulf and down below the window. We let Miguel handle that part after he […]

There is a bunch of stuff overseas with the War and whether the hard line IRGC crowd in Iran will see the light or not. In National partisan politics, it turns out the Southern Poverty Law folks were funding the neo-Nazi and klan horrors they claimed to be fighting, and those revelations may be to […]

This appeared after the 0900 Creative Section Meeting adjourned and Splash considered dumping his orange juice into the fruit cup and adding something else for excitement when something thudded against the big 4th Floor window. That upset Maggie, who was visiting from Financial to examine some of Dierdre’s charges to the Chairman’s Zelle account that […]