I confess I do not know what to think about any of this latest exercise in public humiliation for some otherwise fairly good guys. You can balance that with the opinion of more than one female veteran of the gender wars that they are just pigs. The count of “possibly inappropriate” messages is eye-popping. For […]

There is a tidal wave sweeping over me this morning, and a meeting with the good people of Lockheed-Martin in Springfield in one hour and three minutes. So, perforce, the usual smoothly-crafted story is going to have be traded for the shower and an exciting drive in the chill dank rain. Between the disintegration of […]

Things just take longer down on the farm. I enjoyed the extra day down in Culpeper immensely, and actually got some chores done. (Re-cycling is an important civic duty. Here is the marshaling area for Veteran’s Day dead soldiers.) Well, as you can see, there were some other activities besides “chores,” per se. Re-cycling among […]

It is a huge Veterans Day down at the farm. Thanks for your service, Vets. You, and the long line of citizen soldiers have kept us free: Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard, have kept us free. Not that one Vet didn’t tweak me first thing, but I will get to that in […]

(General Dave Petraeus in happier times testifying before the House Armed Services Committee. Photo AP.) I was going to explore the wonderful, magical world that is about to come with you this morning. It is part of what my pal the economist calls “the business cycle,” and the coming boom in oil and gas. It […]

I was going to tell you about CHAMP this morning, and the implications of one of the more intriguing horrors to pop out of the old National Security apparatus, but there are a couple topics we really need to discuss at the end of this astonishing week. It is morning in America again. Everything is […]

Get with the program, folks. Here we go. Sorry…all that storm- clock change-and election nonsense quite distracted me, and I freely acknowledge I am a bit peevish. I got out the flag to take down to the farm for the maiden flag-raising ceremony this weekend. It is a trophy flag, a 5×8 American national flag […]

(The mystery of the hanging chads from 2000. Photo AP). Michelle is not peering at me from the banner to the right of my email screen. It is over. I had hoped it would go like this, either way: a clear, clean kill. Well, it was neither, in the practical application of democracy, but it […]

(Julia Childs would approve, as would Anthony Bourdain would approve. It ain’t rocket science, just like the election). Cold was the night. First decent cold of the year, the first sneer of the winter wind that cuts deep. There is going to be a lot of crap going down today all across America. I am […]

It is Monday and I feel like I am almost home, don’t you? It has been a very long bus ride with people who really need a shower. What a long, strange trip this has been to arrive right back in the middle of the road, the signposts ahead pointing boldly to the Right and […]