(A-1 Towing- “Your Choice in Arlington for efficient vehicle removal!”)   It is one minute past the deadline for the residents of Big Pink to move their damned cars, or have them moved by force by the skilled professionals of A-1 Towing. This is day two of the Main Event, the resurfacing by the Hermanos […]

(Boots)   We are still at war, as best I can determine. There were suicide bombings in Iraq this morning, and ambushes in Afghanistan, and the Pakis appear to be folding in the face of the Taliban. The fundamentalists have spilled out of the Swat Valley and have not put down their weapons as promised. […]

(FDIC Chair Sheila C. Bair)   It is all about how we feel when we get up in the morning. The Mexicans have brought a gigantic machine to the grounds at Big Pink. It looks vaguely like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and eats old asphalt.   We are going to re-pave the parking lot, and when […]

Vic 23 March 2009 Columbia Gardens Columbia Gardens Cemetery buttresses the eastern end of Buckingham, where the little houses end and the garden apartments begin. It real Arlington, family-owned and operated since 1917. In those days, the gently-rolling thirty-eight acres were surrounded by small farms.   In the Spring, before the leaves erupt on the […]

(The old Parish Stocks at Meldreth)    The first blooms are out, brilliant pastels on the bushes and bright cheery yellow on the daffodils out in front of Big Pink. The earth is repeating the cycle as it always does. So are we.   I wish we were up to it, but it appears that […]

(Dome of the Capitol)   I was in one of those meetings with the government yesterday in the big aluminum breadbox across the river that put things in focus.   We were talking about in important financial initiative that will ensure the health and comfort of the program I work. I should say that we […]

It is Saint Patrick’s Day today, and naturally my thoughts are elsewhere. I saw that the Free State is offering discount deals on Irish Citizenship. Apparently if you can demonstrate that your Great Grandfather was from the Auld Sod you can qualify for dual nationality.   I have to check that out. Grandfather Mike was […]

The Pakistani Supreme Court judges fired by ex-strongman Mussharif have been reinstated, and the oily bastard Nawaz Sharif has stared down the elected President of Pakistan, “10%” Zardari. I guess that is good, if the nuclear arsenal is secure this morning.   I don’t like the passivity of watching things play out there any more […]

(South Lodge Hotel, near Horsham, West Sussex, Home of the G20 Ministers)   I had the best of intentions this morning. One of them was to lay abed and not think. Another was to do something with the second half of a book I wrote years ago, and found completely by chance late yesterday.   […]

  I ventured fairly far afield yesterday, but it was a worth trip. I was hoping to find in a nice, approachable way to describe what we are in the process of doing to ourselves.   I had the vain hope that I might discover something that   I know my limits, and I am […]