Jack in 1948 The days are getting longer, and the world beneath our feet is responding to the added measure of photons, regardless of the dreary chill. There was an early meeting on Saturday over in close-in Maryland to focus some volunteer labor on a worthy cause. I rode with Jake, since Big Pink is […]

OK, I’ll admit it. I am bored. I have no idea how I am going to fill up the endless hours until November. Oh, the Chinese irritation about the successful satellite shoot-down is entertaining, but that is really a matter for the next President to deal with. The cause of my malaise is the fact […]

The ground is cold this morning, waiting. Well below freezing, bone cold, and thus the rain is turning immediately to ice. I am hoping for a snow day today, though that comes with peril. People will be stuck at home, with nothing to do except e-mail one another. One of our earnest entrepreneurs made an […]

SM-3 Leaving its Verticle Launch Tube The Notice to Airmen and Mariners- the NOTAM- is the key to this thing. Of course the decision-making that went into the operation has been going on for months. The issuance of the warning area is the last bit that provided us the operational location, the target and the […]

The back door to our new building looks out on the service drive between the Westin hotel, a fancy high-rise condo and the old office building the government used to rent for the Navy Spooks, and later the Customs and Immigration Service, before it was eaten by the Department of Homeland Security. The boxy 1970s […]

Fidel announced via midnight letter to Granma, the official Cuban newspaper, that he is stepping down, and does not want to “cling to power” after nearly fifty years. It is not an obituary; we will still have to wait for that. It sounded a lot like the old Castro we have known for so long, […]

Fidel announced via midnight letter to Granma, the official Cuban newspaper, that he is stepping down, and does not want to “cling to power” after nearly fifty years. It is not an obituary; we will still have to wait for that. It sounded a lot like the old Castro we have known for so long, […]

Can there be coincidence that this President’s Day, honoring Lincoln and Washington, can simultaneously be the commemoration of the independence of Kosovo and the anniversary of the election of Jefferson Davis as president of the Confederacy? Perhaps it is just that history is bunk, as Henry Ford maintained, and there are only so many days […]

Can there be coincidence that this President’s Day, honoring Lincoln and Washington, can simultaneously be the commemoration of the independence of Kosovo and the anniversary of the election of Jefferson Davis as president of the Confederacy? Perhaps it is just that history is bunk, as Henry Ford maintained, and there are only so many days […]

I get a lot of mail, and this curious thing was in the in-box this morning. It is from another owner of a Hubrismobile, a real one, complete with the AMG speed-and-performance package that I could never afford. She goes by the screen-name “HotOne,” which is predictable enough. She has been encouraging me to attend […]