Poet’s Note: The puppies were upset – they woke my Muse at 0245 – My Muse woke me… if only she were flesh and blood… The storm soon followed… – Arrias Summer Storm The dogs awake with a start, Agitated, they sense what I cannot, Outside the humidity is complete, Stormy weather, wet and hot. […]

Yeah- we know. It is really 103 days to the next general election, but these images of weather masquerade as something else. They are about forecasting for an event that isn’t a single day anymore, but rather a season of activity. Since you have shared this long to approach the opening of the season, we […]

And Other Senses The Salts out on The Patio were taking a break from watching the Big Flatscreen in the Conference Room. We were busy, since we have work to do in attempting to decrypt the torrent of information aimed at our eyes and ears and other senses. But outside, it was drizzling with occasional […]

We had mentioned things were going to get more complicated and a little more weird than they were last week. Example? There had been reports that an announcement would be coming on Sunday about a change in the campaign line-up that was immediately contradicted by earnest declarations that everything was fine and would continue as […]

We had retired from active discussion after a couple satisfying day-end cocktails yesterday. Our spirits were fairly good, despite the larger chaos. Management had permitted one of our projects to lurch into print, and another appeared to be gyrating through one of the sundry processes required to adapt it to a new edition. These things […]

Management leaned on our Writer’s Section to concentrate on timely, topical, amusing SHORT topics the other day, since everything is so emotional and intense in this hyper-sonic season. Accuracy was the first casualty in the speed, so we are doing what we can. Earlier, we had tried to explore some of the war in the […]

You are living in the same cyclone of activity, so our usual morning blathering will be kept only to an observation of the raw power of the winds swirling and howling around us. We did not attempt to stay awake for the closing remarks at the Red-hued convention last night. The machinations of that process […]

What a darn week! The account has to begin with the attempted assassination and the maelstrom of messaging about it in all directions. Attempted murder on national television, bitter political strife and a variety of legal battles were all reflected in a swirl of highly amplified messages. Our Legal section saw the first draft of […]

The GOP convention is wrapped up in short order. We think they will adjourn today or tomorrow, but all the big news and messaging is already done. Candidate Trump is now the official nominee, and appeared bandaged with his running mate, the first Millennial and first former enlisted Marine to be on a major ticket. […]

Both Legal and Marketing had sent representatives who were waiting while we finished posting the astonishing morning blather that had superseded the plan to make a significant announcement. Then we got snagged on another development further down the list of Big Things (BTs).\ So, that trumped what we were in the middle of as the […]