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 […]

Juan Arevalo Mendez (Image Fairfax CO and ChatGPT). We were reminded by Miles to publish a correction at the top of this morning’s edition. Alert readers down in the sunny climes noticed an infrequent—and much regretted—mechanical error in yesterday’s Daily. Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has been beset by a cascade of damaging allegations for […]

The war appears to have returned this morning, with the President delivering some unusually blunt remarks about the craven, lying zealots with whom America has been dealing for nearly forty-seven years. It prompted a discussion at Socotra House about how landscapes—and the people who inhabit them—can change over time. After the cheerful chaos of sports […]

Hi, Gang! Deirdre here with the morning shift. I am doing That looks a little somber up above but with the carnival of amazing activities that have played out since the Olympics I am about entertained out. I am particularly pleased this morning that it looks like that idiot Platner appears to be on the […]

We were settling down for what looked like a quiet Sunday before the FIFA madness began. Instead, another layer of drama appeared, draped over the lavish wedding at Madison Square Garden and the funeral of the Ayatollah we helped execute in Tehran. Then there was that Red Card business hanging over the U.S. Men’s National […]

Well, there should be a practical means of getting on with this year now half done and sigh in relief. The President, like him or not, put on a performance we could not have managed in our youth as jets thundered across several national panoramas. The severe weather alert popped up in the late afternoon […]

The Navy Brass wanted to compare and contrast the survivability of both American and Axis ships, which is why the Nazi Hipper-class heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen was brought all the way from Europe for the test. By the time she arrived at Bikini, she was officially known as USS IX 300, which is the oddest […]

We will keep this short enough to just mark how special this week has been. The image? It is of an insouciant young man fifty years ago, who thought maybe it was time to get a haircut and try to find a decent job. That was around the time of another big celebration. I don’t […]