I am going to be scrambling this next week- and you might as well you might be if you are a veteran of a certain age and vintage. I know- I should not read email in the morning when it might upset me. This particular bright and beautiful morning I got one of those Vet […]

Japan-gazer Update — March 08, 2018 平成30年3月8日 = (30th Year of Heisei Era, 3rd Month, 8th Day) – – – – – = This week’s poem: A Version Of Wisdom All good things come to them that wait, Unless you wait too long, In which case, the saying’s wrong… { From my Blog: https://carllafong.blogspot.jp } […]

Another interesting week here in The Swamp. Washington versus California in court and legislative action. Open Lawfare. I don’t know about you, but I have always felt that the 10th Amendment- the one that helpfully reminded the Federals that the powers not specifically allocated to them are reserved to the States and citizens, respectively- was […]

Japan Happenings & Factoids (05 MAR 2018) Editor’s Note: This is a Three-Part extravaganza. No Gomens required! (For non-7th Fleet sailors, that is “sorry!” in Japanese shorthand for the more formal “gomen nasai.” A thousand gomens for – Vic * CORRECTION: Gomen nasai … The 28 FEB Japan-gazer Update listed a wrong date for Emperor […]

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. […]