We are dodging the bullet here in Northern Virginia and praying for the Carolinas. Anxiety level was high, and rains are supposed to come here Monday or Tuesday. We will see. So far we have kept power. More to follow. Vic

I wasted the day…or better said, had the time to get a great chance to understand some of our elected fools better. Regrettably, I have to write this earlier than usual, since there are reasons for me to try to be at Joint Base Bolling-Anacotia (JBAB) early tomorrow. Yes, I know. Doesn’t matter where you […]

Gentle Readers (and Polliwogs)- This appeared this morning from Bill Studeman with and a hat-tip to Rich O’Lear and Jake Jacoby for sharing. There are many Shellbacks who have crossed the equator on a proud ship of War or Peace, a much smaller number of Golden Shellbacks have crossed the Equator at the Dateline. I […]

Hurricanes Just a few months ago, my son called from Honolulu to tell me missiles were inbound. Thankfully, that turned out to be a bogus alert, but now there is a Cat 4 Hurricane bearing down on Honolulu, and it is real. We survived Hurricane Ewa back in the ’80s, and it was pretty amazing. […]

The pool closes at Labor Day, and Kuba the Polish Life guard will be free of us again. No word on whether the Big Pink Condo Board will authorize two weekends in September for swimming. Constant vigilance is required. Also necessary in the inexorable approach of the mid-term election. I ha to flee the city […]

Sunday is going to see an influx of left and right wing demonstrators on Sunday. Apparently this is the second iteration of the pro-and-counter demonstrations last year in Charlottesville, Virginia, the home of Mr. Jefferson’s University of Virginia. One demonstrator was killed in the clash. This time the right wingers have secured a permit to […]

It is early August and I am rode hard and put away wet, which is actually part of the paradox of life. I can sim vigorously for an hour and then barely limp back to my condo. Irritating. And worse, the pool will start to shut down Labor Day weekend with no week day swims […]

These are hardly the Dog Days of August. To the contrary, it has been cool and rainy. I swear I have been chilled each time I have been in the pool since Memorial Day. Despite the continued chaos of the Mueller probe, the wars are still in progress and the debt continuing to press upward, […]

(Remains arrive at Osan. the flag is that of the United Nations, under which US forces served. Image from Pacific Stars & Stripes) If you don’t know (or have forgotten) your Korean geography, Osan is the big USAF base about an hour south of Seoul. When I was assigned to US Forces Korea in 1980, […]

(Mary returns to DC. Photo by Jamie). In the old DC, the one before air conditioning, August was traditionally the time everyone went back to there districts, or the shore. I don’t recall a milder Swamp summer in my thirty-something years living here (counting made me use four digits) and I am either getting more […]