I was kvetching about not following the latest films and what passes for television these sad days- a thousand High Definition channels and nothing on. I have been stuck in my chair or on the couch for a few days hoping vainly to shake whatever it is that is afflicting me. That and the great […]

I actually have a pal who lives in the Great Dismal Swamp, located down in Tidewater Virginia, and which, as his reporting indicates, is actually kind of pleasant. But we have hit some doldrums here due to the catastrophe in Florida. The national discussion about school security is so horrifying that it quiet literally sucked […]

So, it is Tuesday. I knew that from almost the first minutes of Fox & Friends, and I am no slouch on details. Wiki tells me this is the day occurring after Monday and before Wednesday, which is when I have to do the stupid postcard from the stupid Swamp. There is a lot of […]

I was knocked back a little this morning- Billy Graham of the tent meetings and crusade passed from us last night. I knew him all my life- he spanned all my conscious memory, and is one of the last of those who served the nation when it really meant something all those years ago. He […]

Well, I don’t know quite what to think. Cupid appears to be in the Witness Protection Program. I send these postcards on Wednesday, just as the mainstream Swampsters are getting their narratives straight for the week. There is that nasty business in the White House that has dragged the Chief of Staff into a conflict […]

OK, OK. I am not going to beat the whole thing to death. It has been painful. Not to mention expensive. Oh, there are at least two things going on. The knuckleheads downtown finally passed another Continuing Resolution about the same time my aging body decided to be awake, whether I liked it or not. […]

It has been another one of those weeks- this dizzying pace of events sweeps all before it. The House Intelligence Panel issued a memorandum claiming to line out exactly what was provided to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to justify a secret warrant to monitor the communications of Mr. Carter Page, who had left his […]

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Heck of a week So, the guys who are going to rip out my 1964 vintage kitchen were here this morning and some of it is gone, leaving gaping scars on the wall-board. Maybe it will be OK. I have been all over NOVA trying to figure out how this mass of stuff gets resolved- […]

Japan-gazer Update — January 26, 2018 平成30年1月26日 = (30th Year of HEISEI Era, 1st Month, 26th Day) – – – – – = This week’s poem: Some Wisdom If, for what you strive, Is so distant and far, Across a life’s desert, Like an unreachable star, Then don’t walk, take a car… { From my […]