It did not take long, did it? The packaging was prepared during what used to be the Regular Order period in budget formation for the vast, sprawling, incoherent budget of the United States of America. Who benefits from all this madness? Without the Budget, or at least “a budget,” a lot of stuff has to […]

We have some strange stuff going on in the current Legal Circus. It is an entertaining show, since the performers are engaged directly in the struggle for the Oval Office. That will drag on through next November. Not the month around the corner, mind you. The one after that (by year). Part of the excitement […]

So, here we are in the season of transition. It is still hotter than hell in afternoon when the sun cuts the arc over the parking lot at Big Pink. It bathes the western-facing units on the north-south wings by the Big Road with warmth and light. It also brings up the prognosis for what […]

We both got it right this morning! We guessed and got lucky after the confusion of the recent Short Week caused by Labor Day in which we didn’t. Labor, that is. This morning we are awake at the same time and relatively certain as to what day it is! That is a challenge sometimes, since […]

We could feel the heat rising in the eternal campaign this morning. There was the fall-out from one of the efforts to secure the most powerful office in the land. There is talk of impeachment abroad and ashore and more entertaining antics as our current President spent some time at the G20 conference. There is […]

(1966 Album by the Mamas and the Pappas. We have to change the lyrics a bit to adjust to the individual year. AOL, our internet provider, does not want us to be able to insert the image for reasons best known to themselves). So here we are. Sunday! Damn, that was startling. We were humming […]

(New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham). You probably know the theme for this morning just from the title. There had been some indications the Central Government was going to take us back to emergency rule for the next iteration of the COVID pandemic. We got tired of it last time in fairly short order. We […]

We are doing some controversy out on The Patio this morning. We do not claim to have any particular insight into what is happening at your place, but one of the major legacy media markets had one of those bottom-screen creeping headlines crawling across the screen announcing it was a slow news day. Placing the […]

Some of us had careers that started out with avoidance. There were a variety of strategies involved with the strategy of not winding up as an eighteen year old with a rifle. Most of our excuses involved the college deferment, so entry into uniform was only deferred, not eliminated. Graduating meant a four-year deferential between […]

Author’s Note: We are trying to wrap up the travel book. Work on that thing has spanned nearly a half century, and several of the participants have assumed room temperature. The news this week was capped with the sad news of the passing of famed calypso crooner Jimmy Buffett. We all shared him in unequal […]