Miles was wearing a strange costume for a retired Navy Patrol Aviation Captain. Splash was confused, since he was between romances. Rocket and Melissa clearly had plans for a lavish luncheon at 801 Chop House up the road, and the kids—who can’t afford such things—had a plan for chocolate, wine and flowers outside in the […]

Our Section Leader Miles was struggling to get back in the leader’s chair at the North End of the Conference room. Outdoors, the white snow-crete cloak remained, shining bright light into the conference room from the floor-to-ceiling walls on the east side of the building. There is mud where the sledders frolicked in front of […]

Naturally, someone brought up the big cavalry charge when we heard the Vice President was coming to Arlington on the 3rd of March to raise money for the GOP Mid Term elections. We can feel the temperatures rising to start the melt of the snow-crete that has imprisoned us for more than two weeks.. In […]

The south end of the Conference Table rests on stacked cinder blocks. Vic’s recliner failed this morning. It had been his command chair since the move. Getting it out of the apartment and the matching chair repositioned into the office nook became a major operation — one of those logistical campaigns that feels outsized when […]

Rocket was unexpectedly alert this morning, and he raised a hand at Miles to make a statement at the Morning Meeting. “The Buddhist monks are doing a Fifteen Minute County demonstration today. It took a while. They started walking northeast from Fort Worth, Texas, 108 days ago. The national media has been distracted by kidnappings, […]

Miles skipped the Monday meeting. That was a big deal. We don’t know why, since we may hae been dozing when things fell apart with the field goal kicking late in the second quarter, Eastern Standard Time. Splash drove the white company mini-SUV to Urgent Care after the accident, which he insists was nothing. Still, […]

1980 Special Edition at Lunch After the Super Bowl Daily Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Editor’s Note: In 1980, United States Forces Korea (USFK) operated amidst intense political turmoil in South Korea, marked by the May 17 Coup d’état and the subsequent Kwangju Uprising. USFK maintained security as the ROK students rioted. We […]

Miles was frustrated this morning. No one could blame him. There was too much news, and it was ironic, since there had been excitement from the Olympics in Italy. He had deliberately not mentioned the Winter Games as they kicked off last week. Today, though, brought a story of triumph and tragedy, as Breezy Johnson […]

Before the shooting starts, the lifting does. That Iran Thing “While public attention rotated through spectacle — medals, commercials, halftime choreography — a different kind of movement continued largely offscreen: the slow, deliberate stacking of lift, fuel, and steel across the eastern Mediterranean and Gulf. Not the sound of war beginning, but of options being […]

Our Socotra Legal Section said we had to run a disclaimer first thing this morning. Leon got all puffed up about it. So, there it is, first and foremost. What we are disclaiming, specifically, had to wait until Section Leader Miles had something like a quorum in the Conference Room up on the 4th Floor […]