Editor’s Note: Mules is a shipmate who has contributed accounts of travels and curiosities around this somewhat threadbare globe. His particular insights in aviation, military and commercial, are remarkable. He happens to live in Carmel, CA, and takes in the Pebble Beach Concours d’elegance and auctions each year. With his bride, Mules provides commentary and […]

I just sent one of the essays that our columnist and classically-trained commentator produces each week. This one conveys the sense that a lot of us have these days- “Can we just do something else for a while here in the Swamp?” Be careful what you wish for. The Next Big Thing turned out to […]

Editor’s Note: It was a toss-up this morning between the cookbook and the story of the decline-and-fall of my folks. I could not make up my mind- but I will keep looking for both to inflict upon you. The dramatis personae include Raven, Big Mama, my sister, Anook of the North, and brother Spike. This […]

I don’t want to bring it up- and will lance the boils on the body politic that seem to proliferate before our very eyes. A boil, just by way of reference, is a painful, vile fluid-filled bump that forms under the dermal layer when bacteria infect and inflame one or more of your hair follicles. […]

Editor’s Note: Now that the Mac Showers book is out, I have been turning my attention to my Attache cookbook, a compilation of never-fail recipes that have served military/diplomatic remerging culinary needs when the spouse announces the Poles or the Ukrainians are stopping by for cocktails. Point Loma hits on something important here about an […]

I am feeling my inadequacies this month. I am not only not running for President, but everyone else in town is flacking a book- something so ubiquitous that it is quite amazing. I assume there is another angle to it- there is with everything here in The Swamp, after all. But darn it, I have […]

I handed off the remote to the flatscreen shortly after 0900 to enable more stimulating programming. Not that this isn’t. I mean, this is like far out. The witnesses who are testifying at the big hearing were still showing up, and the seats of the Members were still unoccupied. Since the guys coming up to […]

My pal Bronco’s lovely wife attended a Wounded Warrior fundraiser the other night. Centerpiece of the decoration was a tattered American flag that has seen the best and the worst of times. Here is the descriptive account of what this tattered but proud fabric has seen: The words made me think of the people that […]

There is a new movie out about the most significant naval engagement of the last century. Perhaps all the centuries. Reviews say the cinematographic treatment is extraordinary, and retired Admiral Sam Cox, Director of the Navy’s History and Heritage Center, was on-scene to nudge the script back to events that actually happened. We had it […]

Things are so loony up here that I felt a little information shocked. Or maybe it was the time change last weekend. This one wiped me out for some reason, so the news from Mexico really made me sit up when I first heard it.. Last week, the authorities rounded up the son of drug […]