I was going to tell you about the ill-fated and brief trajectory of the Office of Strategic Influence in 2002, a wild hallucination that came as close to getting my name in the pages of the Washington Post as I pray I will ever be. They say there are a lot of Swamp Dwellers preparing […]

(Some Attorney General or another. Apparently he had a press conference this morning). Editor’s Note:As you might have heard, there was a paroxysm of emotion surrounding the issuance of a report authored by that Mueller fellow, which after more than two years of diligent investigation has shown nothing regarding coordination on the 2016 election between […]

Events overseas galvanized the world this week as the famed Cathedral of Notre Dame burned. It was like the end of the World War Two movie when the Germans wanted to know if the city was in flames as they fell back in the face of Patton’s advance. Thankfully, the conflagration was not as destructive […]

I remember the last time I was in the cathedral of Notre Dame in a city that at this distance in time- like San Francisco once was- is frozen in amber magic. A lot has changed since I last visited either of them. A pal sent a “poop map” of the City by the Bay […]

(A glorious image of the fuscia foliage erupting from the rich red Virginia soil. My stupid satellite internet connection refused to load it.). The Masters Golf Tournament had to start way early this morning- 0930 tee offs- due to the next wave of storms sweeping inexorably out of the heartland. Tiger was something else. Tornados […]

The critters are going wild with the sound of Spring or maybe it is just a reflection of having the windows open. Big rains last night- remnants of what pounded the Midwest the last day or two. Spring Break is coming on, and I recall the folly of my parents in 1969 letting me take […]

Gentle Readers, The critters are excited about Spring, based on observations of the bird calls, the march of Empress Cat across farmyard (the barn feline that actually owns the place), the wild turkeys, geese, gophers, fox and deer. Life in the country growing green. The Owl approves. – Vic

So, the morning mash of fake and unfake news featured the House oversight committees performing the usual antics of the majority- temporary or not- to continue the Russian Collusion Delusion. Candace Owens was pretty impressive, much better than that strange AOC person, in my opinion. But opinions are much like our alimentary systems. Everyone has […]

I have passed on Sam Cox’s account of his participation in the successful search for sunken ships that have rested under the waves since 1942. It was an interesting moment to hear that the last of the Doolittle Raiders, first to strike Japan after Pearl Harbor and launched from the carrier Hornet, had passed. I […]

(The Mount Pony facility in the Cold War. From the real estate flyer advertising its sale). I am still down at the Farm, luxuriating in the return of green growth and a certain warmth in the early Spring air. Windows are wonderful things. It has been a blessed relief to have the kinds of material […]