Well, sort of. It was a general consensus for the people who cycled through the conference table for some of those great small pastries that showed up and the core group that stuck around to run “merge notes” and mash the button. DeMille doesn’t understand platform distribution, so whatever Zoomer might be left gets stuck […]

Nope. No year in review or any of the stuff that would have required the effort to compile some of the astonishing stuff about what will be a pivotal year in a time that will have a name undetermined as yet. It will rival the power of the “Gilded Age” or the “Roaring Twenties” since […]

Socotra House got the news when you did. The reactions to the message were mixed by the age of the ears and the amount of hair over them. And color, if there is any. We could do the general tenor of the response in terms of the American Century, that mythical period since the mid-20th […]

It is a holy morning here in Virginia, and these are some images of a place where sacred events occurred for each of the Three Faiths. In 1990, Vic wanted to see the walls of the first Temple, the Dome of the Rock, and Stones on which the Savior walked among us. A small stone, […]

It’s Christmas Eve’s Eve, so DeMille is attempting to get things wrapped up before things start going all Green and Red and Star-Sparkled tomorrow. There was a trip to the Arrowine Cheese Store over on North Glebe including most of the Creative Section and talk about going south after we heard the talk about the […]

“US Strikes Yemen!” That was what was up on the screen in the Conference Room, boldface, when Splash walked in to rinse out the last of yesterday’s coffee in the squadron mug he uses. “Is this something new?” He looked groggy, apparently not realizing an Aegis cruiser USS Gettysburg had just shot down one of […]

OK, DeMille said we have to go to the big Festive Luncheon and only the words to go to the pictures will work. That is the Solstice, and not shorter or longer, just more of less light. That is from Jim Champagne, RIP. The guy with the paper is Sen. Ran Paul with the budget […]

DeMille had a list this morning. He told Rocket to see if he could get Vic and Vapor to do something to explain the strategic importance of the Pakistani port of Gwadar. Actually, it was the Omani port of Gwadar until 1958, part of the disintegration of British India that erupted in 1948. So, they […]

DeMille sighed. This was supposed to be a sort of wrap-up week to get the old business out of the in-basket and get set for some holiday routine for next week. And let the Transition sort itself out. Then, apparently Mr. Elon Musk got out of bed around 0400 local and sent a five-word Tweet […]

The thought had been that the drone thing would be the mid-week messaging center of gravity but there were other things. We knew something about the “Government Shut down” was going to come up and it will be fairly big, if fleeting, today. So, there was that issue and then what was passing in the […]