I was scooping digitally through files from the three or four computers that lurk in various states of confusion in the cubbyholes under the desk in the great room of the farmhouse in the country. I don’t know about you, but this has been one of the more extraordinary public events I have seen in […]

There is supposed to be something happening in the Senate judiciary Committee this morning. We will see about that, although fully ten cardboard placards were seated in their living occupied seats. It was different yesterday. I reserved my arguments to the festivities surrounding oral surgery in a town 40-odd miles down the road. Maybe there […]

I don’t know how your dinner table is doing this week. Mine is filled with mutterings and amazement. The good news is that some sort of resolution to this garish display of national disunity may be coming in less than two weeks. The bad news is that may not be true, and this national litmus […]

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 […]