This is a big one. I was trying to figure out the concept of blogging, those 20 years ago with the dread Y2K event coming that would do all sorts of terrible things. They didn’t, but a whole lot of other things did. Everyone is doing the events of 2019 in list and retrospectives. I […]

Well, ‘Tis the season, right? I have no idea where the time went. Almost Christmas; huge political circus going on, which has been swelling like discolored fruit for nearly three years. Well, you can’t say it has not been fun. Boeing continued it’s horrible, no good, very bad day this morning. America’s heavy space-lift capability […]

Jingle Bells on the Tidal Basin Wild times in the Swamp this week. I would attempt an analysis of it, but why bother. I am shellshocked and think I might hear silver bells… Having a wonderful time- wish you were here!

Editor’s Note: Our Peripatetic Correspondent Mules is back in the Gentle Islands with his bride for Pearl Harbor Day, and went on to The Big Island of Hawaii. For those of us who lived on Oahu, it was a magical time. Even better to see it again through new eyes. There are more stories from […]

The NAS Pensacola Terrorist Attack: At play in the Fields of Taqiyya, Maruna, Kitman & Hudna Here’s to Pt. Loma for referencing this in his latest piece, entitled: “We Called it Paradise”; dated December 7th, 2019. Despite the best intentions of some in the “mainstream media” and our own Government to obfuscate the real intentions […]

h8k2_3-022515 “I have often said that an intelligence officer has one task, one job, one mission. This is to tell his commander, his superior, today, what the [enemies] are going to do tomorrow. This is his job. If he doesn’t do this, then he’s failed.” – Captain Joseph J. Rochefort, USN I was having one […]

Editor’s Note: Mules is a shipmate who has contributed accounts of travels and curiosities around this somewhat threadbare globe. His particular insights in aviation, military and commercial, are remarkable. He happens to live in Carmel, CA, and takes in the Pebble Beach Concours d’elegance and auctions each year. With his bride, Mules provides commentary and […]

I just sent one of the essays that our columnist and classically-trained commentator produces each week. This one conveys the sense that a lot of us have these days- “Can we just do something else for a while here in the Swamp?” Be careful what you wish for. The Next Big Thing turned out to […]

Editor’s Note: It was a toss-up this morning between the cookbook and the story of the decline-and-fall of my folks. I could not make up my mind- but I will keep looking for both to inflict upon you. The dramatis personae include Raven, Big Mama, my sister, Anook of the North, and brother Spike. This […]

I don’t want to bring it up- and will lance the boils on the body politic that seem to proliferate before our very eyes. A boil, just by way of reference, is a painful, vile fluid-filled bump that forms under the dermal layer when bacteria infect and inflame one or more of your hair follicles. […]