(Navy takes advantage of a Black Knight miscue. Photo AP) I left the lottery ticket in the visor on the Panzer, which was tucked safely in the garage after a partially successful foray to watch the clash between Army and Navy up in Philly. It was for the PowerBall jackpot- not a huge one, since […]

(Overhead Image of Farm Fresh Croftburn Farms Dawn Farm eggs simmering in the skillet with Country Sausage with sage, sautéed Mexican red pepper and onion to start the morning at Refuge Farm. Photo NASA.) I got what I needed to get at the Farm, and am cautiously watching the weather on doppler radar as bands […]

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I am not sorry that I have found a new hobby. No, it is not feeding ancient analogue pictures into the little scanner. It is time traveling. I have been listening to the happy stories about all the people that the new health care system is going to help, right in accordance with the talking […]

(Prisoner at the Yokosuka, Japan, police station. He is eating a cracker, which my pal Tom “Big Smoke” Duvall provided to make the interrogation more effective. Everyone else in the room had a glass of tea and the interrogee eventually discovered how really thirsty he was….Photo Big Smoke.) I am starting to panic. The radio […]

Two to five inches of the white stuff, they say. Not that much, really. Not by any rational standards. I was talking to Tracy O’Grady at the apex of the Amen Corner at her Willow restaurant about how we people of the Great Lakes deal with the eternal nature of the snow. She is from […]

(There are only four ornaments on the tree, so far. Two I found in a plastic tray that must have been in Big Mama’s mud room, and commemorate the Central Building and the Rose Hill Schools where she was educated in the little Ohio River Valley town of Belleaire, and was the first of her […]

  (The Official Refuge Farm tree, 2013, courtesy of the Methodist Church yard sale in Arlington, circa 2009. I had not looked in the box until I started work on cleaning out the office attached to the garage yesterday). I glanced at the watch yesterday afternoon and realized daylight was going to run out on […]

I have been mystified by the numbers game as played by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I mean, we all know the jobs report is bogus and played for politics. Still we are expected to believe it all, and it continues, like so much else in this Progressive media society, without question or critical thinking. […]

(This image of Building 213 at the Washington Navy Yard is an overhead image with one-meter resolution, which is to say that a skilled photo interpreter can distinguish objects measuring about a yard in length or width. Such a capability was pretty cool, back in the day, particularly when you could not fly over head […]