I looked over at the time-hack on the menu bar to the computer and decided it was about time to get organized. I pulled the two tuxedos out of the closet and checked which jacket seemed to fit better, put the other one away, and looked at the single miniature military medal I would wear […]

This just in from an Old Japan Hand…. new special feature of the NIP on-line presence. We think it will be a useful connection to the Kanto Plain and the Tokyo-wan that many of us called home at one time, however briefly. This Old Japan Hand has a made a career of interpreting two amazing […]

Gentle Readers: if you were expecting a blow-by-blow on the Debate, or an account of how many sips and slugs it took to get through the drinking game to go along with it, you will be waiting a while. Possibly until one of the candidates accepts what is going to happen in the polls in […]

Bottoms up, Gentle Readers!

Well, I suppose we could talk about what the Terrible Candidates will try to pull off tonight in the last debate, and Mrs. Clinton gets ready to pack her bags for Disney World or wherever it is that successful candidates go. I was listening to the satellite radio on the way back from Physical Therapy, […]

I am glad I went out to Las Vegas a couple months ago. My pals Old Jim and Chanteuse Mary made the decision to retire to the desert last year, before we knew that our little world was about to end. It was a splendid run at the World’s Greatest Bar Restaurant, and the Champagnes […]

We cast a wide net here at The Daily. We have to. These days it is necessary to duck the sordid reality of what passes for politics in this great land these days. The mysteries will all be revealed soon enough, so there is no point in hashing it out here. What will be, will […]

As usual, peripatetic travelers Jim and Peggy Mueller are on the road again, this time in the wild raw beauty of the American West. Since this intersects with some of my travels back in the day, and a stalled Hemingway manuscript that I have been working on these last few decades, this account electrified me. […]

Gentle Readers, There are some bittersweet memories of that awful day in Washington when American Airlines Flight 77 was highjacked by terrorists and flown into the Pentagon here in Arlington. One of the five ONI people who died that morning was CDR Dan Shanower. His loss, and that of the other 124 who perished, was […]