(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, […]

The Longest Day…started with… This is what we were going to go with this morning now that Miles is back from his temporary duty with the Blockade Task Group over at the Pentagon. As you know, there was a bunch of stuff going on, and if you have dealt with Persians down at the bazaar […]

Two victories for the U.S. in FIFA Group D Men’s Championship! Last game in Group D is coming up in California on Thursday morning, 25 June, 2026!

It is Juneteenth today, the celebration of Emancipation Day, a Federal Day of Thanks for the ending of chattel slavery here in 1865. And whatever is going on in this world when something like it seems to have returned to these shores only a few years ago. It would be easy to lose track of […]