“I understand there has been a lot of anxiety. People aren’t sure what to make of it. They’re worried about a new agency and how it will exercise its authority. But we’ve been reasonable, open-minded, accessible and genuinely focused on trying to get this right.” – Richard Cordray, five time winner of the television game […]

I got a note from Japan this morning. The JG has landed, and his time in the Fleet has commenced. I am relieved that his travel by air on 9/11 and landing on Friday the Thirteenth passed uneventfully. I am now able to go back to worrying about other things. The radio is briefing me […]

Busy morning. I am texting back and forth with the JG who is at the Air Mobility counter at SEATAC, checked in, but still more than three hours from boarding the flight to Yokota, surrounded by enlisted Marines. He was briefly alarmed that there might be no beverage service on the charter flight. I told […]

(The way things used to be. Photo Wikipedia) The usual suspects are pretty wound up this morning. We have been back and forth about the President’s Speech last night, the media coverage of it, the Million Muslim March that is supposed to happen later this afternoon on Pennsylvania Avenue, and the successful recall of the […]

It has been a wild week here in Washington as our elected fools return to determine the Fate of the West, or at least the fate of the Administration. It has been high drama throughout the legislative break as we have lurched from coalition to unilateral action by the Commander-in-Chief, to a sudden reversal to […]

It is almost the anniversary of the day that changed American life, and not for the better. I will be busy that day, so I took the opportunity to visit my shipmates who were murdered by the Saudi jihadis at the Pentagon. The groundskeepers were watering the 9/11 memorial and the graves adjacent to them, […]

(The defaced Great Seal of the United States at the gate to the former US Embassy in Tehran. Photo Wikipedia). I have been all over the map this morning with the usual suspects. There’s all kinds of interesting stuff going on. The number one thing was the result of the Big Game in The Big […]

Nope. Not going to do job numbers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics can put the rosiest smile on things, but the fact remains that more people left the work force than got new jobs, and those that did get work got it part-time. I am not going to deal with the G20 conference in St. […]

Mr. C.J. Box can write a hell of a western yarn. When I was stuck in bed for a couple months last year, I read the whole series of his mysteries featuring Wyoming Game Warden, Joe Pickett. Pickett is an awesome character. He is human and frail, and he gets mad and sad by turns, […]

(Secretary of State Kerry explains to the Senate how a pencil works yesterday. Photo AP) It is not that I don’t have enough weighing on my mind- I mean, did you see how Secretary Kerry looked yesterday? This has not been a great week for anyone. I could not dwell overlong on the prospect of […]