10 January 2017 Editor’s Note: The President is jetting off to Chicago to give what many are hoping is a glorious speech of farewell, accounting for his eight years in the Oval Office. I have come around to the idea that the Brits might have this better than we do. It was in the middle […]

Editor’s Note: Confirmation hearings for the new Administration’s cabinet are supposed to start this week in the Senate. This should be interesting, and the name calling and Twitter Wars have already laid out some of the battle lines. I was clearing out the old year’s stack of magazines, and riffling through the cover art of […]

(Legendary skipper of USS Wahoo, LCDR “Mush” Morton) I don’t think Lizzie or Meghan knew the details about the spy swap- the one in which a Russian sleeper cell of agents had been rounded up by the FBI, and ultimately exchanged with the Kremlin, just like the bad old days on that Bridge in Berlin. […]

Editor’s Note: I did not write this and will not try to take any credit for it. It came in the snail mail as a six-page printed document. As I read it, my eyes widened. I wasn’t quite sure what Ms Miller wanted me to do with the plain unadorned black-and-white pages, so I just […]

Editor’s Note: I am watching the skies and the snow. I want to be at the Farm, and fully intend to be there later. On the other hand, I have learned my lessons about travel in Virginia, and considered a tattoo that would read “If it’s snowin’, I ain’t goin.” In the meantime, I would […]

(The Amen Corner in full swing. Left to right, The Lovely Bea, beautiful Jamie, Old Jim, Short Hait Mike and Jon Without on 12 January 2012. Photo Socotra). So, the Speaker trounced Mr. Romney down in South Carolina, and the circus appears set to continue into the slightly less dark month of February. I don’t […]

Editor’s Note: If you feel that fever-chill-naseau-ache and disorientation thing coming on, be thankful that it appears to run its course in as little as five days. At least that is my experience. I hope yours go swiftly. I had a happy chance to be able to sit upright again and took the opportunity to […]

Editor’s Note: Do not get this brand of the flu that I am enjoying no end. I even got my shot on time back in October, and it didn’t matter. This strain is virulent, disgusting and really cuts into your social life. – Vic The Hatch Way (Then-LT Bill Hatch. Photo Hatch family). It was […]

Editor’s Note: If I failed to personally express my thoughts for the New Year, let me do so now. Please have a safe and prosperous New Year in 2017! I am happy to be done with 2016- it had all sorts of good and bad news, including deaths of friends and the miracle of birth. […]

It had been a long and confusing week, with five separate proposals to the Government in various states of disarray at the office. I was sick of writing creative fiction about capabilities and desparate for a win that would keep Corporate off our backs for a while. I was a thirsty camper when I glanced […]