Goodness, what a start to a jumbled day. There were still little digital bits of Tuesday dangling in Thursday’s inbox, all demanding attention. There is a mountain of material to cover—or ignore. We’ll let you decide. The Democratic Party primaries produced three strongly progressive candidates who appear well-positioned in their heavily Democratic districts this November. […]

The first thing to think about with holes is whether you are in one. Second might be to consider stop digging and climb out and see what the situation is out there. We just had a demonstration of a national effort on the flat screen in the conference room with a parade of bureaucrats. They […]

It’s on your computer keyboard and your smartphone screen: QWERTY, the first six letters of the top row of the standard keyboard layout. The lightbulb might be one of those things we can directly attribute to the genius of a single man, Thomas Alva Edison. The thing we use nearly as much is a mystery, […]

The Longest Day…started with… This is what we were going to go with this morning now that Miles is back from his temporary duty with the Blockade Task Group over at the Pentagon. As you know, there was a bunch of stuff going on, and if you have dealt with Persians down at the bazaar […]

Two victories for the U.S. in FIFA Group D Men’s Championship! Last game in Group D is coming up in California on Thursday morning, 25 June, 2026!

It is Juneteenth today, the celebration of Emancipation Day, a Federal Day of Thanks for the ending of chattel slavery here in 1865. And whatever is going on in this world when something like it seems to have returned to these shores only a few years ago. It would be easy to lose track of […]

The messaging about memos is swirling this morning. Some of us have been watching this for nearly a half century, so you can understand our feelings veer back and forth from optimism to pessimism. We do not trust the Iranians and do not know if enough of the old regime has been eradicated to change […]

We were going to putout a special Edition last night after the polls closed on the primary election in the Twenty-Minute County nexxt door. it is an exciting time here, since these figures have announced some pretty startling plans. Here they are, to start: In general order, Councilman McDuffie promises more of the same, with […]