(USS Midway CV-41 Library and Docent staff at their recent 20th Anniversary event in San Diego. In center rear of the image, Phil Eaken is holding LTJG Winky, a hand-puppet that served to keep attention on the flight event briefings for Air Wing FIVE aviators before Midway became a museum). Phil sent the picture above […]

Morning, Gentle Readers! Did you stay up last night to see the slightly confused pundits on the flatscreens marveling at the results of the political pandemonium. Primary Political contests held in a couple dozen states yesterday, including the one in which our Patio Super Tuesday is over with some fairly dramatic developments. Both Biden and […]

There was excitement under gray skies and moisture out of the Patio. Everyone was up and active, since it is a day that may have come from the Marvel Comics people: “It’s Super Tuesday!” We are not sure we can get everyone to the polls this morning, nor are we sure who we would vote […]

(Lenore and George Romney chat up Dad, 1963) They didn’t put the hyphen in the middle of the phrase when we first encountered it in 1960. That was Mom and Dad’s thing, way back in the mists of time. It stood for “Michigan Constitutional Convention,” which was intended to fix some of the impediments to […]

(This is a fellow accused of murder while here in Georgia as an “undocumented” non-citizen. They call them something else these days, but there are so many new terms we can’t keep track. we would run a photo of the Sheriff who holds him, but that would open up another lane in the slippery slope […]

A historic moment occurred today that had nothing to do with conflict overseas, elections or any of the rest of the current turmoil in which we are embroiled. It does touch, by inference, some of sports and gender issues and it is pretty cool. Here it is, in unusually brief format: Iowa b-ball star Caitlin […]

. Well, part of this Daily is now a pristine segment of the Past, as demonstrated in the chart above. We were suitably tense about it, since this is not a thing called ‘TENNIS,’ but one we clll ‘LIFE.’ Our Congress, that body of esteemed solons, managed to come to a budget agreement before midnight […]

This is a short one that welcomes a brand new month in a year that is still sort of new. There is something special here in Your Nation’s Capital: the National Weather Service has announced when we will see the lovely pale pink cherry blossoms bloom down by the Jefferson Memorial on the Tidal Basin […]

(This image from The Telegraph has nothing to do with the Jones Act. It is a recent picture of the Motor Vessel Rubymar (“Red Sea”) sinking in that body of water- a crucial link between oceans. It was hit by a missile fired by Houthi rebels and demonstrates one of the means by which global […]

We normally generate a “Weather Report” each week as a means not of “informing” or “convincing.” It is intended to be a stream of information in which some smaller stories are advancing in emphasis to the media that now surrounds us. We are trying to to keep track of the various post-Colonial conflicts, America’s vulnerabilities, […]