That was a week, wasn’t it? We attempted to deal with some current affairs, ones that represent our chaotic present’s collision with the legacy of vivid recollections of our shared past. Just naming some of them swirled memory and emotion. Section 702 is an ongoing issue that combines the complexity of technical collection of information […]

There is more medical stuff on the horizon this morning, the two-week check from the vascular surgeon that has proved a distraction lately. Things appear to be going well and the staff is generally upbeat. The usual coverage of the remarkable events of this Spring continue to spew across the Big River here and make […]

(This image might be one observed in the heavens above San Francisco, California. It is what is called a “contrail,” or the vapor cloud produced by operating jet engines in the rarified atmosphere high above. It was news this exciting week! Image YouTube screen capture). Morning, Fellow Travelers! We appear to have survived another extraordinary […]

(Here’s the nitrogen cycle. Insert the EPA logo somewhere in the circle at random the way they do). Sorry to bother you on an already busy morning, but here is another way things work these days. It is something that would have come up as “news” back when our budget system worked. It might have […]

OK, we gotta start with it, right? It was pretty cool for those who were under the path of the total eclipse yesterday. It did not arrive at noon like the literary version. It got a little dim here around three pm here in the capital. The larger astronomic events served as a tipping point […]

(Cartoon by M.E. Baslin, drawn and published in 1979 onboard the USS Midway (CV-41). The image accompanied a continuing series of stories about a hard-living and equally hard-knuckled detective named Nick Danger and his lovely assistant Matilda. As far as we know, it is the only detective story transmitted by official Navy message at the […]

Well, we have stumbled into what we used to know as the weekend. Welcome! Now, Saturdays represent not a break from daily labor, but a change in routine brought on by changes to programming time changes on the usual channels. The Friday evening shows are re-run on days like this, which adds to the usual […]

There is a bunch of stuff to talk about this morning, but we suspect you are getting as tired of hearing of that phrase as we are of saying it. We are in the weeks of real and dramatic change in our seasonal alignment. The Chairman had directed a general cleanup of the headquarters campus […]

You can see one of the plain legacies of this day in the tumult of our time. In the case of this circle of Salts, the Iranian-related unpleasantness has been going on since 1979 and the misunderstanding about the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. That is 45 years we will not get back, though we have […]