This was written on a day of some minor significance. It was April Fools, first of that month, and we were getting ready for summer. Not quite the same this morning. Back then, the cherry blossoms were coming out around the Tidal Basin, across the placid Potomac from the grand old wreck of a building […]

Editor’s Note: The nature of the world is in change. This item first appeared in the Socotra Daily in the summer of 1979 in a place called “Kenya.” See what you think… – Vic Mombasa, Kenya Nyali Beach We lurch away from the Fleet Landing and the crowds get thicker as the people smell American […]

The sun is out for the first time since last week. The emotion attached to the Big Holiday is sort of strange. Odd, you might say. Or capitalize it. This morning was jarring. Miles has the flatscreen on Channel 72—the Faux News feed—since their bias is balanced by the fact that we can see it, […]

We arrived at a crisis of unidentified proportions yesterday. The robots have arrived. We stumbled across the news on GeekWire, a new source recommended by some shipmates drifting through the electronic ether. The story touched on something we have been wondering about ever since we had to wheel Vic around in that rolling contraption from […]

(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 […]