Editor’s Note: The cabinet nominations are starting to drop. This morning it is Mike Flynn, America’s angriest General (press) for national Security Advisor. Sen. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General and a congressman I have never heard of to be Director of the CIA. I wish Mac were around to talk about all this. He might […]

(Demonstration in Tehran, 1953, opposing Operation AJAX. Photo Public Radio International). “I told you the other day that I was sent to London in May of 1950 from DC.” I nodded in agreement, and got out my pen and prepared to take notes. “I rented the flat, picked up our 1949 Mercury four-door sedan at […]

Editor’s Note: I stayed up late watching Monday Night Football, something fewer and fewer of us do these days for a variety of perfectly good reason, some of them akin to the reason we have a President-elect with orange hair. I talked at length about that with Liz-with-an-S at the bar last night. She was […]

14 November 2016 Editor’s Note: It was a quiet enough weekend, though there did not appear to be enough of it. I did not take to the streets in protest, but just enjoyed the marvelous crisp air of autumn. If there were disturbances downtown over the results of the election, they did not spill over […]

Editor’s note: Mac would have been happy this morning, and I am trusting that somewhere he is. The Iowa Hawkeyes knocked off my Michigan Wolverines in a tiresome reprise of some games back in the 1980s. People are still rioting in the Pacific Northwest, though I honestly can’t imagine why. Maybe it is something else […]

12 November 2016 Editor’s Note: Apparently there is still rioting over the refusal of some citizens to accept the results of the election. I vividly recall all the Republican pouring out into the street back in 2008 to protest, smash the windows protecting small businesses and vandalize automobiles….oh, wait. That never happened. Never mind. Whatever […]

Editor’s Note: It is Veterans Day, and one of contemplation. There have been two nights of protest in the streets about the election, some of them violent. I knew this wouldn’t be over, even with the results seemingly final. They were not interrupted by attacks, cyber or terrorist, and there few reports of anything but […]

Editor’s Note: We have to tiptoe around some of the things that Mac did during the more than a dozen years that composed the second part of his intelligence career. There had been some pretty strange things going on, at the behest of Presidents and others, and some whistles were being blown. Mac’s role was […]

Editor’s Note: This is a historic day, for good or ill. The pollsters were wrong. Hillary Clinton is not the President-elect. That is not what I thought when I went to bed, and I woke for the usual reason around 0330 and lay there in dark, wondering what had happened. The House? The Senate? I […]

Editor’s Note: Seemed like it was appropriate on this day to re-live our last election day with Admiral Showers. It was November of 2011, and we gathered, as usual, at Willow for a festive glass and raucous conversation. mac was feisty and full of energy. I recall there was a sense of optimism in the […]