(Jeff Henderson’s Funky Rock Beverage Dispenser. Photo Socotra.) Sorry- I am disoriented by a lot of the circus that masquerades as our democratic process, and Columbus Day isn’t helping me out. Maybe you are too, unless you are retired and every day is Saturday. I am not, at least not until we do the Thelma-and-Louise […]

(The garage waits. There are several projects lurking there, and the photo albums of a family now on both sides of the Great Divide. Yeah, I know. Those gutters are growing little pine trees. Photo Socotra.)   Strangest year of my life, I thought, sitting out on I-66 with a variety of fellow citizens, including […]

(Genghis Khan, born Temujin, was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his demise. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia).   I have been up long enough this morning to be agitated, but I am not […]

It is the anniversary of Nimitz Day this morning, sixty-eight years since the phalanx of motorcycles escorted Chest Nimitz down Pennsylvania Avenue. The Fleet Admiral is one of the great leaders in American military history, but there are only two things in public service that remain dedicated to his memory. One is the lead ship […]

Great taste? Less filling? hahaha. I may look for the whole debate on the web when I get back to the office this afternoon. I am escorting Mac to the dedication of the intelligence center named for his former Commanding Officer, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and I have no idea what the command is going […]

For our gentle readers in Fly Over Country, I think you can take a certain amount of satisfaction in the fact that our Beltway Cloud Cuckoo Land is about to crash to ground and join the rest of the country. I am not going to whine about it. We have had an excellent decade in […]

(Pat Caddell outlines the shape of a rigged game. Photo AIM.) I already voted. Why wait? I tried to stay away from it, but the weight of the evidence this morning is that something is very, very wrong. It is almost overwhelming. I am NOT a Republican- I am way “left” of them on every […]

This was a weekend for projects on the farm. It was supposed to rain, and it did, like gangbusters on Friday night, complete with wild electrical flashes. But Saturday dawned crisp and clear and new-washed, and it was time to get back down to the farm and see what the Autumn had dragged in. It […]

(Reducing the leaves and field debris of fall. Photo courtesy Farmette Report.)   I woke thinking of the soil before first light. The tomatoes and sweet basil that came from the garden next door were on my mind, and I am resolved to plant my own the next growing season down here in rustic peaceful […]

(Jon-no-H and Bud. Photo Socotra.)   Let’s see: I have vowed not to write about politics, the implications of climate change, the brutality of the meat industry and the internal conflict about its products, the conduct of the rogue national security state in the 1960s and anything that may subject my gentle readers to the […]