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, […]

05/06/1966 Has Hi-Fi Recipe File! By HERMINE MARIAUX, Special to The New York Times Kitchen for the Future Has Hi-Fi Recipe File CHICAGO, Jan. 5, 1966 — William E. Reddig, design director for the Kelvinator Company, has constructed a “Rogue’s Galley” to which even the owner’s girl friends may be summoned by pushbutton. The hexagonal […]

I want to thank you for staying with us as we work through conflicts overseas and an increased production load shared by the Boomers who provide the technical expertise and the Zoomers who can still drive. My part is keeping things moving between the Conference Room, the Galley, the Russell Cooktop, and the Weber grill […]

(Rep. Eugene Vindman, Virginia SEVENTH Congressional District). We have not written about events in the Chairman’s old home County of Culpeper. As you are aware, his grand design of retirement in the rolling green fields was almost perfect until he noticed all his medical specialists were still up in Arlington and Fairfax. Which led to […]

En Parie… Unfolds Across Two Extraordinary Days We are should have had enough of random explosions this week here in Washington. But we are still tempted to head to Paris for Monday’s remarkable celebration of a mob that assaulted a prison holding all of seven inmates. It is their version of Lexington and Concord, celebrated […]