(Guo Wenjun takes aim at Gold in London. Image courtesy ESPN.) I have yet to see anything from the Olympics on the tube. It is not that I am not aware of it, nor about all the crazy story lines: limbless sprinters, aging swimmers on the brink of immortality, strange sports with marvelous athletes of […]

(The hemline index. I am suspicious, since Schick Quattro Razors have a vested interest in more skin. Image courtesy Schick Corporation.)   I know it is stupid to waste any time at all about the train-wreck that is coming in January. I mean, if no one else in town is taking the double-whammy of tax […]

(Admiral James D. Watkins as Chief of Naval Operations. Photo USN.)   My pal Joe shipped a note to me this morning, which he does regularly about issues in the Community, either government or contractor. This was different. It was an obit, and it was one of a famous guy. I looked at it with […]

I thought the story was so cool when I saw it that I had to clip it electronically and review in detail. It was a candidate for yesterday’s story until I got off on other technologies that don’t deliver on what they promise. I suppose I should reserve judgment until the new washers and dryers […]

(The Coinmach empire began with a single row of front-lading machines in Long Island in 1947. Now it is coming after me. Photo Coinmach.) I am starting to panic. The issues cascading over us- the nonsensical tax bills wending their ways to nowhere in the Senate and House, the controversy over whether there is an […]

(Russian fast attack submarine in the Barents Sea. Photo Provda online.) I know I have at least two people that read this drivel, since they wrote to ask whether I had got tired of assaulting the sensitivities of my friends and fellow travelers. In my defense, yesterday was the day from hell. I had to […]

It was a gray steel-wool colored weekend. Saturday was surreal. Not because of the weather, since the persistent drizzle was a bit of a novelty. We have been sharing a touch of the drought that has ravaged this year’s crops in the Midwest. Up in Michigan, the early Spring killed off the cherry crop. Bad […]

(Arlington’s vibrant Wilson Boulevard Corridor, looking east to Rosslyn and The Disctict.) I live in a Blue County and drive a Blue car. That is as political as I am going to go this morning. The issue of civic virtue has been percolating in the back of my brain for a long time, rising each […]

21 July 2012     I do not want to talk about politics, and it seems that all there is to do is talk about politics, or the politics of tragedy, or the other way around. I am going to stay away from it.   There was a tantalizing story out of troubled Syria. I […]

It was a dark night in Colorado. There has been another one of those periodic American events. This one has some vaguely interesting nuances. The location was not far from Littleton, to a town in which I once lived. It happened in Aurora, at the Century 16 multiplex theater. A “lone gunman dressed in black” […]