Above right is the Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson. He has been in the news about his opposition to an acoustic sensing system known as “ShotSpotter” currently deployed in the Windy City, He recently dismissed the system as “nothing more than walkie-talkies on a stick.” That is a bit simplistic, since the system was designed […]

You can imagine the controversy at the Production Meeting. The collision between the messaging streams is remarkable at all levels of the information campaign. In the war that looks like the old ones with clips on the Flat Screen? There is grinding tension along the brutal line of contact adjoining both sides of the Donets […]

There is glitter all over in the messaging world this morning. We would start with the Supermoon, the much ballyhooed display obscured here by the remains of the tropical storms. They scudded disconsolately northwest across the West Wing of the building. We tried to see it but there was nothing except a gentle mist in […]

The AP tired to pre-empt our local interest story this morning with the more sensational news that “several hundred” Hezbollah members were injured or killed when their hand-held devices spontaneously exploded in Beirut overnight. It is a big deal on the tech issues we have been following, since it represents the product of targeting data […]

We tried to keep it quick this morning and failed. It wasn’t lack of thought, nor of mild disorientation as you can see. The increased volume about the several issues contributed to the compilation, of course, since they are all sort of related in the stream of intentional messaging of varying volume, calibers and ranges […]

OK- Yesterday we fumbled through a brief account of some of the tension in the long grinding conflict caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine across the majestic Donets River. That is the one that drains the East European Plain, originating in central Russia’s Upland north of Belgorod. There has been vigorous periodic fighting there over […]

We had three nice tales lined up for this weekend morning, jockeying for position. One was “green,” being the usual weekly Weather Report with the assortment of unlikely stuff swirling in our world. Ready to go. Another was a biographic adventure of two individuals in our town wrapped up in the swirl we know, a […]

We could leave it at that, you know? The messaging was interesting this morning. The re-hash on the Debate controversy continues, mostly on how the presentation was structured to enable a nice performance by one and a less so by the other. We are pleased to be retired, since we are locked up in obsolete […]

With everything else, ordinary life is having its own moments. The Factory much older than a half century, of course, and when there was active waterfront of interest to the old colonial and new US Governments. The Torpedo Factory is now an art center operated by Alexandria, but it was a production facility for Naval […]

We may be feeling the first part of the title this morning. ‘Callous’ is a great word. At the root, it means ‘ hard,’ like the thick skin that builds up on a working finger. We used to work, so we understand a bit about that aspect. But of course it also can mean insensitive, […]