(The sprawling Soviet Military Cemetery in Treptow Park, in the former East Berlin). Now that I have some discretionary time on my hands I find myself busier than ever. Paradox, I know, but I have heard that from folks not much older than I am. There are the little odds and ends that go along […]

As you know, The Daily strives to keep to the high road, and trying to unravel the nature of the games that pretty smart people have invented to keep electorate from taking to the street and rioting over the gross mismanagement of public affairs. It is getting harder and harder. I could talk about the […]

Sorry- I am a little addled this morning. There are three trials nearing the endgame that all have implications for National Security to one degree or another- two of them are mirror images of one another: Major Hassan, who went over to the other side and killed his fellow unarmed soldiers, and Staff Sergeant Bales […]

I am sure you have heard the news. We lost one of the giants of modern American pulp letters, and these days, that is about as good as literature gets. Elmore Leonard, 87, has passed of consequences of a stroke. Big Mama and Elmore had something in common, well beyond just being long-time residents of […]

(California High Speed Rail. Imaginary photo by California High-Speed Rail and Unicorn Authority.) Sorry I am late this morning. I have been trading polemics with the usual suspects and Rhonda at the front desk called to ask if I had a woman in the unit, since there was a car parked with a guest pass […]

Well, Gentle Readers, I had hoped to address you this morning with a tale of triumph, and the announcement that the Disctrict Stones Project was closed out, just as my physical abilities to do so are drifting away. Sorry- just like everything else these days, I failed. I can tell you that I have a […]

(Not my picture of SE 9. I hope to see it in person later this morning.) This is a bit in the way of a place-holder, so bear with me. I will fill you in completely tomorrow, if we live. I hope that is the case. So, ten years after I started this adventure, I […]

(I don’t know where these particular trolls work. Could be one of several Agencies, or they could, of course, be free-lance, given the state of the economy.) OK- twice this week. I generated another story that I cannot do anything with, exactly like yesterday. I won’t trouble you with old news- am going to have […]

  So, I had this story all good to go this morning, and then I looked at it and actually read it, and the whole thing made me ill. It was about Tuffey Geffling, and if you know who he is, you already know more than we ever needed to know, and the predictable has […]

(Presidential Dog Bo, accompanied by his walker, four Secret Services Agents, a Navy Lieutenant, the Presidential basketballs and assorted luggage, arrive at Martha’s Vineyard via the new MV-22 Osprey flown by US Marine Presidential Support Squadron HMX-1). I got all the answers this morning. Well, not ALL the answers, but a couple good ones, but […]