OK—I have the chicken thawed and ready to be assembled by some Interns earning extra credit for weekend shift work while the major air campaign enters its sixth cycle of days. Our thoughts go out to everyone involved, along with the sad news that at least two more Americans have been lost to drones launched […]

​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 […]

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!”  

There was a certain amount of controversy in the Conference Room this morning. Splash said three of the Zoomers actually took the Uber to Dulles and may be fetching up on the soil of France in order to celebrte Bastille Day tomorrow. You know about that significant demonstration of the People’s Liberty by crshing into […]

There was a shocker in the headlines this morning, and it had the Boomers gathered in the Conference Room. The average age of the group is somewhere in the mid-70s, so the news that South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham had passed away suddenly yesterday came as a genuine surprise. His office announced that he died […]

Dad’s WW II Cartoons: “Gremlin Gazette’ Afternoon, Gentle Readers! A curious thing happened after a cheery celebratory digestive id inadvertently sloshed itself over the old Laptop. Although it eventually dried out over the months of June and July, but the office situation was becoming a major irritant, There was a hasty effort to replace it, […]