Arrias led it off this week with his call for a look at how business is done here in the United States. It is a topic that cries out for a little introspection, but we have been merrily beating that particular equestrian beast for a while, so we thought we would open things up with […]

It was the Autumnal Equinox a few minutes ago but we think we survived. We will see if there are a few seconds less light today, though the low-hanging clouds may provide some of the ambiguity to which we have become accustomed. We have adopted a pink-ish tone to the morning that retains a certain […]

(Vegetable Beef Soup on the Stove)   Well, they took lovely dead summer and put the green shroud on her, lickety-split. She was barely cold when Czar Peter and his pool-surfs showed up late yesterday.   Peter was at his leonine best, rich dark hair flowing like Fabio over his tanned muscular shoulders. He poured […]

The first official day of fall will start with coffee tomorrow on America’s right-hand coast. The last full-moon of summer is waning over the West Wing at our corporate HQ, the one we don’t directly work for, and which is not, therefore, responsible for anything we might be thinking from moment to moment.   We […]

Above right is the Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson. He has been in the news about his opposition to an acoustic sensing system known as “ShotSpotter” currently deployed in the Windy City, He recently dismissed the system as “nothing more than walkie-talkies on a stick.” That is a bit simplistic, since the system was designed […]

You can imagine the controversy at the Production Meeting. The collision between the messaging streams is remarkable at all levels of the information campaign. In the war that looks like the old ones with clips on the Flat Screen? There is grinding tension along the brutal line of contact adjoining both sides of the Donets […]

There is glitter all over in the messaging world this morning. We would start with the Supermoon, the much ballyhooed display obscured here by the remains of the tropical storms. They scudded disconsolately northwest across the West Wing of the building. We tried to see it but there was nothing except a gentle mist in […]

The AP tired to pre-empt our local interest story this morning with the more sensational news that “several hundred” Hezbollah members were injured or killed when their hand-held devices spontaneously exploded in Beirut overnight. It is a big deal on the tech issues we have been following, since it represents the product of targeting data […]