Author’s Note: I have been wrestling with a treatment of the extraordinary career and legacy of departed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. My sentiment about the Court has always been tempered by the adherence to the founding documents across centuries of change. Though not intended, the composition of the Bench has been a thing […]

Author’s Note: It has been an interesting year for us all. I discovered a button on the iPad that revealed “unread” messages. There were a surprising number of them, mostly covering the period of early February of this strange year. I must have missed a couple weeks as the COVID excitement was just hitting its […]

Morning, fellow citizens! Another day surfing down the roiling cascade of information, leading to something some pundits say is really important. I forget what that is. The outlines of it are there, certainly. One of the headlines blared this morning that the Center for Disease Control, the Government agency responsible for dealing with epidemics, is […]

Sad news, friends. CDR Richard Gragg, USN-Ret., ended his gallant fight against cancer yesterday. His battle was tough and long. His was the second name posted on the Naval Intelligence Professionals Binnacle list in 2016. Rich was a shipmate from USS Midway days. A bit more about that shortly. He had a successful career in […]

Yeah, I know. It is all getting hard to take. I intend to vote next week and get that irritating issue off the table. The rumble of the daily outrage will continue, of course, in a manner someone has orchestrated for timing. It is fun to deconstruct the various narratives. There will be the colossal […]

I got up this morning, a little before sunrise. It was like that, I recalled. A little cloudier this morning, that other morning it was clear as a bell, “ceiling and visibility unlimited.” CAVU was the aviation term, and the stars were bright in the still-dark heavens. I needed something from my locker at the […]

We emerged from the alleged Labor Day holiday weekend with a lot of people not working. Well, it was a holiday, but you know how things go these days. We have touched before on the curious state of play in the information operations campaign. Normally, these things are conducted sub rosa and rarely talked about […]

(Registrar Jim Clements processing my 2018 application for absentee in-person early voting in Culpeper). I am one of those irreconcilable voters. Speaker Pelosi termed us “enemies of the state” in one of her recent public declarations about the state of things. Apparently it was in between trips to the beauty salon prohibited to the rest […]

You probably saw it- the elected bureaucrats in your Nation’s Capital have produced a list of things we should be looking to change. It is a virtuous list. You know, that irritating statue of Mr. Jefferson in his oppressive marble dome down by the water, the ever-unsettling variety of things tabbed with the name or […]

Everyone in our personal movie knew this was not going to be a great day. This was one that happened in the first year of the administration before this one. Times were interesting, what with the economic collapse of the housing market, and challenges confronting me on the fancy car I drove to enhance my […]