I heard my pal Joanie on the radio this morning, talking about the big Supreme Court decisions yesterday. She has been a point person for same-sex couples since she got out of the Navy, and I am happy for her and her partner. I was in the Panzer when I heard the recap of the […]

It is out, as of 0600 this morning, and the topics to be covered in the Big Climate Speech are no longer embargoed for distribution. This is good, since I have to be elsewhere due to The Big Meeting that will inform us of The Big Changes at the company, held conveniently in distant Chantilly, […]

(Somewhere in a foreign field with the troops of 1914-18). I don’t know if you’ve looked at what is happening in the Asian markets this morning. I have tried to stay away from looking at the balance in the 401K, which is headed south at an alarming rate. Apparently Wall Street began to panic after […]

(Legendary Child Star Jackie Coogan, eking out a living in his last great role as creepie Uncle Fester in The Addams Family.) I have been up at Refuge Farm this morning since way early. I discovered it is raining, to my vast surprise, since I had heard the weekend was going to be nice. Accordingly, […]

  (District Boundary Stone NE7, near the site of the disastrous Battle of Bladensburg, which set the stage for the burning of Washington by the British in 1814). It is funny how things come around. I feel several circles closing this morning. One has a certain claustrophobic aspect, and another a historical one. Both hark […]

(The great Ice Sheets of the last and unlamented Ice Age, from which we are still emerging. Check it out. Image courtesy of Treehugger.com) Well, summer arrived early this morning and I am wearing a sweater in normally torrid Arlington. It was a strange and elongated Spring- I hope it does not mean another Ice […]

There is so much going on that I can barely whack myself into bewilderment with the National and International Issues at hand. I am tempted to join the Syrian Resistance, though since they are Sunni fanatics that might not work out so well. Considering the Shia alternative it might not be a particularly good career […]

I am at the farm and bemused. I was going through office stuff before attempting the drive back to the Emerald City. I toggled over to check my private mail as a diversion, and was stopped in my digital tracks. A pal had sent a picture from long ago and far away and wondered at […]

The Black Forest Fire is now 75% contained, they say, with slightly over 500 homes destroyed. If one of those were mine, the “slightly over” rounding error would piss me off, just as are some of the property owners who have been prohibited from re-entering the area to see what they have lost. There are […]

(Map of the Black Forest conflagration in which nearly 500 homes were destroyed. Photo Modis on earth image by Google). I wish I could say it is good to be home, but it is not home, not precisely. The unit had all the lights on, a profligate waste of energy strongly encouraged by my amiable […]