Author’s Note: It is about time to put the manuscript to bed for the search for the District Stones. It was a grand adventure, and included history both known and unknown. It was a minor epic worth living amid urban elegance and squalor, the worlds of the living and the dead. I will have the […]

This shambling monstrosity of two campaigns is being crystalized into the chosen two narratives in time for the final stretch down to the election. Before this morning’s news, I had the COVID alarm coming down in emphasis, with the various interpretations of the President’s hospitalization last week. His narrative is that there is only fear […]

Author’s Note: There is a fair amount of activity going on this morning. It is lovely and clear skies in Culpeper. The national top bill, of course, is the Barrett hearing on the Hill. Quick reaction from listening to parts of it, is that the opponents to her nomination are essentially folding on the matter, […]

(Most of the 1980 USS Midway Intelligence team on the flight deck, in front of two F-4 Phantoms from VF-151 and VF-161). Legendary Key West resident and Intelligence Officer CAPT Dave Carrington, USN-Ret passed this first note on the web more than a decade ago. It struck me, even at this distance. We ran the […]

11 October 2020 Author’s Note: The morning stream of messages got me agitated straight off. Not in an angry way. More a state of bemused confusion. Apparently a participant in a political rally was shot dead by a personal security guard, who naturally was carrying a loaded firearm to a big social gathering which was […]

(No, not my picture, though it is some of the same AT-6/SNJ/T-6 antiques that flew over the farm and call the regional airport home. They are magnificent!) We are still emerging from the cocoon of cloud that accompanied the gray uncertainty of the big sickness all the way from Spring to Fall. The moist air […]

The crisis of the week- allegedly a real one- has knocked the crisis-a-day campaign off kilter. The President popped positive for the dread disease, spent a weekend at Walter Reed, and is back at work today. That is inconvenient for the narrative, and there is some scrambling in the background to make the narrative of […]

Yesterday we took a look at something written in 2001 about some things that happened in 1991 or so. It was a hoot to look back and see what we we thought was important then, and the things that go without comment these days. The things included major social issues played out in an afternoon […]

Author’s Note: It is tempting to keep swimming deep in the swamp. This has been a remarkable week in the history of the mire; reeling from the outflow from debates, lurching through a Supreme Court nomination and culminating with the President and First Lady testing positive for the vile epidemic of COVID19. We told you […]

Lot of zeroes in the news this morning. “O”s and numerical oblong circles. If we did it in crisper style, it would be 10/02/2020. Not a great surprise, I suppose, but I was still mulling the nomination to the High Court, and the raucous argument we accepted as a debate this week. I thought things […]