So, we have brushed past some of the interesting ways our government responds to crisis. Our last exposure commenced in the wild response to 9/11. In part of the immediate response, we found ourselves attached to the person of the Cabinet Secretary designated to be the one who would survive the next attack. The means […]

We worked with Mac Showers to talk about his remarkable career in War and Cold Peace. It was fun, and a lot of issues came up. In wartime, he had been a purely military contributor to the war against Japan. In that struggle there were two major components driven by organizational issues back in Washington. […]

There was one of those Deep State Moments last Friday. You may not have noticed, since you were not supposed to. We all know the drill now. Stories that could be inconvenient to the people running things are kept aside by those who monitor Public Affairs and those sorts of things. They are saved for […]

Morning, Gentle Readers! This short blurb is inserted in the morning traffic to explain some of the discontinuity in our normally well-disciplined production cycle. We had opened an account of meeting the Deep State a couple years ago which will continue in due course. It launched at an unusual time- early in the evening of […]

This is the eve of a great holiday celebrating a special moment in human- not just American- history. 247 years ago some relatively young men argued vigorously in Philadelphia about a new system of government to replace the dictates of a King across the water. They were property owners, but more importantly, they represented the […]

Sorry to intrude on this lengthening but lovely Sunday approaching the holiday week commemorating our independence from the King of England, as he was deemed in those days. This is note is to commemorate the restoration not of the Monarch but the Gnome. We have mentioned him in passing, citing the old black-and-white image from […]

You may have noticed there is some odd stuff going on in our spinning world. There is a major land war in progress on the edge of Europe. That used to be a big deal, since it is being conducted by a nation heavily armed with nuclear weapons among other things, with resistance funded by […]

We are finally done with June, and can move on from being proud about some things and start muttering French phrases to celebrate our Franco-American heritage and the other four things we are supposed to recall until the school-bells start to ring. One of the Salts is just back from a trip to Paris and […]

Morning, Gentle Readers! We did some of the controversy about our holiday proliferation yesterday. There could be more excitement caused by the growing conflict over the Supreme Court. It includes legitimacy, which was one of the topics covered in the more than 100 days our Constitution was under discussion by the members of the Convention […]

We are now ending a month-long national holiday devoted to the celebration of things we did not talk about in polite company in the first half of our Boomer Generation. It is sort of weird, since we don’t mind what other people do in the privacy of their homes whether we approve or not. It […]