A bombshell arrives like a thunderclap, only with shrapnel and the smell of cordite.   I got one on the phone last night, and the smoke may as well have curled in wisps out of the handset. I didn’t know it was coming, which is in the nature of things. If you did you could […]

Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) at the Democratic Convention. Photo Matthew Staver/Bloomberg News   I haven’t had time to internalize how angry some people are about what happened to Hillary. I did get a taste of it, though.   It had not been a very good Monday, which is another way of saying it was […]

If you are anything like me, you are getting about ready to puke at the prospects of another whining story about how fast the summer has gone, and the fact that the little men are soon enough going to drag the yellow couchettes back down to the Lifeguard room in the basement. =C 2 The […]

24 August 2008 11 July 2008. CAPT Peter Huchthausen, USN-Ret., Amfreville, France. CAPT Huchthausen was a consummate line and intelligence officer who  served with distinction at the focal points of both hot and Cold Wars, and who established a formidable second career as an author and historian.  Commencing his service as a junior Deck Officer […]

Summer is going fast now, almost like the “dump program” option on the Mac. Drag-and-click to the recycle bin. The season is almost toe-tagged.   Or maybe better, it is like taking perfectly good jet fuel and dumping it in mid-air to get down to landing weight. Landing with full tanks can overstress the airframe […]

Cruz the dog slept in this morning. His was stretched with regal ease on the Iranian carpet near the bed. I was able to sneak right around him to get the coffee. He must have been exhausted. He gets so jazzed when he comes down to Camp Pink, what with all the fresh smells and […]

In the Night What was the curious thing that the dog did in the night? I was doing pretty good, I swear. I got to bed on time, all the e-mail was cleared off and I had a reasonable idea of what I had to do this morning.  We were still reeling from the news […]

Constantina Tomescu I watched a marathon in real time last night. The women were grinding it out in Beijing, starting off slow in the humid air, but inexorable in pace. The leader at the half-way point took off, and there was drama in each footfall past the TEmple of Heaven and the Forbidden C ity. […]

I lit a candle last night, not because the power to the main board at Big Pink failed, but because The King died this day in his bathroom at Graceland. It is my version of the “Candlelight Vigil,” and drew very few Elvis fans to Tunnel 8.   In Memphis, of course, they lined up […]

Lt General Mike Maples Describes the New Building Daily Progress Photo/Megan Lovett   The Hubrismobile roared out of the Bat Cave under Big Pink just after seven, en route the 29th Division Highway via I-66 and points south. I glanced at the azure waters of the pool, still cloaked in morning shadow as the high-performance […]