Juror 4 was the one yesterday. He/they became momentarily famous on his departure from the “accepted” status on the New York Trump legal proceeding. We now know all sorts of things about his circumstance. We don’t recall ever knowing this much about participants selected for individual juries. We are sure there have been some, but […]

We looked around out on The Patio this morning and there were no lumps of steaming, unexplainable phenomena strewn about. The matter of the impeachment of DHS Secretary Mayorkas seems to have passed without event late yesterday. Senator Schumer, forthright Majority Leader, did not permit the matter to get to a “trial.” This seems a […]

Ugh. We have to start with the disclaimer this morning. We have been waiting for the Israeli response to Iran’s startling weekend rocket assault. Part of the discussion echoed the mumbling on the other side of the River here in Your Nation’s Capital. Like many others, we are a little unclear as to who is […]

We were bitching generally about the fact that last Monday was a day of note, and it wasn’t because it was Tax Day. There was some distraction on that matter, since there appeared to be an imminent spike of activity in the Israeli response to the Iranian rocket strike over the weekend. It is deeper […]

(NewYork City District Attorney Alvin Bragg makes a point about his Drag. Image AP) In all the other excitement, this important bit of the chaos was sidelined as the new week opened. It was not hard to peel the layers back in urgency, since it began with the threat of regional war in the Middle […]

(We are pretty sure the 87,000 new IRS employees will be concerned with the 1% on this Tax Day, right? Image Getty) There is some success to report this Tax Day. We submitted a hefty check to the people at the IRS a week or two ago, and we hope it flies. One thing we […]

This is new and interesting. The long flight time of the weapons over a significant distance makes information about them a component of the operation. A direct kinetic strike from a sovereign state is a different sort of beast than those that have roamed the neighborhood for decades. Just past dinner time here- in the […]

We were immersed in a last review of the new book yesterday. It drew us back to some old wanderings in some of the areas in conflict today. We smiled when we recalled that stroll across the Temple Mount and the scowls of armed young men around the Dome of the Rock. The hiss of […]

This Spring day dawned with a reminder of seasonal malice. The breeze is brisk out on The Patio, the skies close and gray, denying the welcome warmth that appeared- briefly- in a week filled with chaos, foreign and domestic. The picture above is from a pal in a square state as a reminder of past […]