(1) 10 September …. Japan Environment Ministry said the only option available to dispose of treated radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is to release it into the Pacific Ocean …. The government will continue to have careful discussions on the matter …. Tokyo Electric Power Company is considering how to […]

I dunno either. I am glad to be living at Refuge Farm. The big deal down here was the raccoon that got squashed out on the County road, and the convention of turkey buzzards that convened to supervise the disposition of the remains. Actually, (and you know that metaphors come to me with ironic difficulty), […]

Yeah, I will admit that most right-thinking folks are a little bleary today. At least the ones that watched the Astros-Nationals game last night until midnight. I confess I watched every pitch of both games so far, a first for this Major League Season, and I was gratified that no pro-Hong Kong demonstrations erupted. The […]

Today, and forty years ago: 23 January, 1979 Wanchi Cherry Boy It all makes me feel a little sullied this morning, listening to the blather of absurdities we are supposed to believe. I have no idea if we are headed for times as troubling as 1968 was, and while exhilarating at times, mostly it was […]

Gentle Readers, An alert reader noted that Point Loma stood bridge watches on big ships. Most intelligence officers did not stand underway watches, since they are (were?) commissioned as Special Duty- Intelligence officers. That was not true in the Amphib Fleet. The leadership there felt an officer was an officer, and I recall visiting big-deck […]

Editor’s Note: Pt. Loma’s piece on Hong Kong really brought back memories from salty old WESTPAC sailors. The events this week in Hong Kong- ten dead, so far- makes these recollections that much more precious. I personally was skewered for failing to mention famed Jimmy’s Kitchen in Central was snubbed. Not true. Just visited on […]

“In no engagement in its entire history has the United States Navy shown more gallantry, guts and gumption than in the two morning hours between 0730 and 0930 off Samar.” – Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, “History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II.” Earlier this year, I suggested to then-CNO Admiral Richardson that […]

OK, OK, a dollar short and late. I am distracted by the level of discourse back up North, the Turkish invasion of Syria (Kurds, anyway) and all the rest of the hysteria that will dog us the next year. The turkey flock made their third incursion on the property. I think some of them might […]

OK, I am on overload from the antics up north. Just to catch you up, the pot is bubbling and not to get on the Halloween thing too early, it seems full of toil and trouble. Speaker Pelosi, uplifted by her party’s mid-term election results, swept back into power. Her team had a bunch of […]

Last year at this time I was freaking out. My lease was up with State Department Susan, and it was either time to re-up for another year (she was big on the ballet of government moves) or move out. Being a man who prefers the path of least resistance, I decided to make an offer […]