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 […]

The Office of Strategic Information: Part Two of the Post 9-11 Saga “Stupid Plastic Shoes” “The Office of Strategic Influence, or OSI, was a department created by DoD in October 30, 2001, to support the Global War on Terror through coordinated Psychological Operations- PSYOPS- at target countries around the world. OSI was prohibited from operations […]

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