I can only watch so much of today’s news before I start to go catatonic. Accordingly, there has been a lot of Turner Classic Movie Channel occupying the flat screen. There are some great films- glittering, sprawling productions that featured actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood. We were watching “Around the World in 80 […]

The circus in Swampland continues. The Barr Tab is likely to hunt with investigations into the shenanigans that surrounded the opening of the probe into the Trump campaign by the national security establishment in 2016- or earlier. It is grand fun, and some former senior officials are apparently running for the exits. I am not […]

“Good to see our colleagues. A great event!” – CAPT Chris Bott, USN-Ret. The 2019 Red Tie luncheon was held Friday, 03 May at the elegant new clubhouse at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington. (View to the 18th green from the clubhouse). Here are Capt Bott and Dr Boyd enjoying Vince Fragomen’s ’s “back […]

So what else is new? I sometimes suspect that someone has slipped some sort of hallucinogen into the big river upstream from the Emerald City. The House of Representatives may hold the Attorney General, Mr. Barr, in contempt last today for refusing to be grilled under oath by staff lawyers who work for Judiciary Committee […]

So, I was talking to my son and catching up on the dramatic developments in the life of his family and the grandkids. Really about the most amazing interchange you can have, spanning generations and framing a prospective future. We normally talk on his commute home, so there is plenty of time to talk about […]

There is a dizzying amount of stuff percolating up from the fetid waters of the Tidal Basin here in DC. It was not an unprecedented event- Attorney General Barr decided not to show up up an inquisition by House of Representative staff attorneys, though he did appear before the more user-friendly Senate committee yesterday. Eric […]

It is the first of May, a famous holiday celebrated by the former Soviet Union and its satellites as a victory for the proletariat. It is not as big a deal as it was before Communism collapsed, but Venezuela might disagree. NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers formally retired on May 4, 2018, just a couple […]

(Military intelligence asset and mobster Lucky Luciano). I am sorry to plow old ground again, but this is a flip account of the involvement of Naval Intelligence with a unique troika of New York law enforcement and The Mob. Forgive me. I just binge-watched the Sopranos and am a little nostalgic. I was tipped off […]

This is a special day, and you may or may not be aware of the significance of the holiday remembering the men of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who were ordered to assault what Winston Churchill called “The soft underbelly” of Europe at Gallipoli. It wasn’t. My son marched on this day in […]

Well, it is actually a quiet week in the swamp. Many of the Creatures are out in the hustings, addressing the great inequalities of a society whose largesse is the greatest in the history of this pesky species. With the issuance of the Mueller Report, one might expect that lane of hysteria would quiet, but […]