It is New Years! It is a day we used to celebrate with smiles on the little budget staff nestled in the bowels of the big five-sided building a shade less than four miles away from the Picnic Table. We used to do a whimsical sort of party with a glass of wine to celebrate […]

Arrias did the heavy lifting this morning. He took on the issues of mass destruction so we can worry about the missing metaphors. We thought we would use this Monday as a sort of metaphoric leap into a quick encapsulation of this week of transition. The foreign stuff is powerful, and immediate, like a movie […]

When we stumbled down in the general direction of breakfast- or at least the dark steaming liquid substance that begins the headlong fall into the day. This one warmed as the coffee cooled, and was tinged with surprise. We were going to start with a nice and poignant piece by a distinguished scholar. She isn’t […]

OK, how do you deal with a historic week filled with incomprehensible and dramatic stuff? Naturally, we went to the Chairman’s stack of old vinyl 33RPM LPs and grabbled one from the bottom of the stack. It happened to be one of Foreigner’s, a great group that came out of New York City in the […]

We asked Legal to have their intern Melissa stop at the Metaphor Locker on her way to the morning production meeting at the picnic table. Splash had pulled in some of the more striking examples late in the previous day when the storm was changing intensity and pulled his end of the picnic table to […]

Sky News is a Brit source with which we have had experience. They report that the Hezbollah has managed a drone attack on a navy base which lies south of Haifa. That caused a pause in conversation, since most of the targets mentioned in the news torrent are just names. This is a place where […]

Let’s get the small stuff out of the way, shall we? The endless election is finally over. We could reveal the results this morning, but Legal tells us is there is some additional detail work that needs to be filled in by the other 161,4189,999 eligible voters, so we will stand by until they figure […]

Interesting morning out there, you know? The clouds lightened with a hint of seasonal chill obeyed by the species that migrate in North America to get further south. There may have been a million of them in the night sky, we couldn’t tell. The Israelis were awake though, since their morning is done by te […]

Arrias led it off this week with his call for a look at how business is done here in the United States. It is a topic that cries out for a little introspection, but we have been merrily beating that particular equestrian beast for a while, so we thought we would open things up with […]

It was the Autumnal Equinox a few minutes ago but we think we survived. We will see if there are a few seconds less light today, though the low-hanging clouds may provide some of the ambiguity to which we have become accustomed. We have adopted a pink-ish tone to the morning that retains a certain […]