(Mt. Kilimanjaro, an accommodating item in a vista seen from an old rail car from someone else’s empire on an endless plain. Seen while headed for Nairobi, a city not yet known, from the bounds of a vast and seemingly endless pale blue sea). This year of artificial endings has been fascinating. I think we […]

This account of the decision to home-port a USN aircraft carrier is from Naval Intelligence legend John Niemeyer, a national treasure. He relieved me in VF-151 in mid-1980, and did a memorable job as a Midway officer. He liked the Japan experience of the Overseas Family Residency Program (OFRP) a little better than most. He […]

The wayward jet Stream has wandered north again, after caressing us with chill embrace the last few days. This morning, we can feel a breath of warmth and life and living once more. It is a holy day for some, celebrating something primal and good. I am not going to take the easy way out […]

OK, there is plenty to talk about this afternoon, but the spin on everything these days makes me tired. The monthly Editorial Meeting on the First was unsettled and confused. No one knew quite what to make of the vehicle assault on the Senate entrance to the Capitol. Then the EPA notification came up that […]

Good Friday! This week brought us some of the most astonishing acts of public derangement I have seen in my time on the planet. It is very refreshing, but difficult to know where to start and stop. It seems we no longer have a lingua franca, a language we could use between cultures and multi-lingual […]

This would be the Weather Report for this week. It slides over tomorrow’s celebration of foolishness and the real transition from one sort of weather to another. Lions and lambs will frolic in April, and we will get warmer. That is an immutable change with which we are all familiar. There is a lot going […]

The glib words run out this morning, and I am tempted to run along with them. I heard the Vice President wasn’t precisely in charge of the border “situation,” whatever that is. The President seemed to be adamant about that the other day. But the “situation” on the border is “more complex” and one for […]

Whew. Thunderstorms rolled through the Piedmont this morning, announcing their arrival with brilliant flashes of light, followed in a few seconds by insistent sharp blasts of thunder. There was no point in attempting to stay under the eiderdown, and moderately caffeinated, we began our Sunday. We have talked about the Press Conference last week. Socotra […]

(The Compliance Department submitted a new diagram demonstrating full support to Building Back America Better. They explained that although things were better before the Government shut everything down, we need to get closer to net-zero emissions, putting on coats when the climate alters, changing our behavior to accommodate inexperienced Amazon Prime deliveries, and hoping none […]

First up, I need to stress how impressed Socotra Publishing was with Mr. Biden’s performance yesterday. That is sincere, and not some set-up to a bad joke. The Press Conference was a big deal, and it went well. There were those who were whispering that it would devolve into some sort of mass melt down […]