There was a story in the “breaking news” this morning about international travel. This one did not include violence, it was more of.an account about whether the folks in Pyongyang would honor the U.S. passport for travel to North Korea. It took The Old Salts back a couple decades to the last time we needed […]

It was quite a day yesterday, wouldn’t you agree? An Icon was created, one that will live longer than we will. After that, the image will become associated with time travel, or the virtual representation of the public circus that is our current national life. There is plenty of other material to go through as […]

We were going to address the Big Debate last night. It was highly touted as the “first gun” of the campaign for what was once the most powerful elected office on Earth. They had been hyping it all through the broadcast day. It was a little weird in presentation, since the morning show was pitching […]

It seems like it has been going on for like…forever. This morning, the billing on the flatscreen is that the GOP candidates are doing something fresh and new at the start of the campaign. It is only the formal start, since the contest has actually been going on now for months. The Governor of Florida […]

Congratulations, Moon-Watchers! We get an extra treat this month with a Blue Moon! It is unusual, but not unprecedented. Those with a predilection for satellites attribute the ‘Blue Tinge’ as being defined by the third full moon in a season that features four of them. We are going for something a little more exotic here […]

Well, it seems like time to pay attention to the weather. Not that Mother Nature is giving us much of a break from the recent and future body-blows. There are reasons for it, but they might be better summed up as we did the winds of Maui that pushed fire through a lovely and historic […]

We got into one of those Malthusian shouting matches on The Patio this morning. That is why we attached a picture of Thomas Malthus to this morning’s outing. He is smiling, an unusual expression for him. We had promised to stay away from all that, the assertions and denials that the human population of the […]

One of the Salts out in the Western United States reported this morning that there were some bright yellow leaves in the trees near his high-prairie home. We exchange the portents of daybreak to set the tone for analysis of the day to come. There is another change in process, the slide from warmth and […]

There was some laughter this morning out on The Patio. The Salts are still amused by the circus happening in some of the courtrooms across the East Coast of the Continental United States. Former President Trump was indicted for another 13 counts of criminal conduct in Georgia, the state, not the independent nation in Eastern […]