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We spent the first twenty minutes of the always abbreviated Sunday Staff Meeting trying to figure out the single most important event of a drizzling Sunday. No, it wasn’t about trying to figure out where the moisture was coming from. It might be the remnants of the big Vortex in the jet stream that deluged […]

We went direct to overload this morning. There was a series of unlikely events that came to full-boil yesterday. There are at least two wars in progress, in “U – – – – – e” and “G – – a,” and we may be in another in the R – d S – a. You […]

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Yeah, the topic of this week’s Weather Report is unsettled. There are troubling aspects to the seven-month prediction- what we use as a substitute framework for the ‘seven day’ cycle used on the flat-screen. We have a sample of an increasing phenomenon here in the Writer’s Circle: some of us are boycotting the news broadcasts […]

We have a clue this morning about who was behind all the controversy. They advertise it. But it had to go to “research” mode this morning since some of us were unconscious during the period described. It was an opportunity to try to link a couple parallel stories, one of which involved the University of […]

The excitement here is palpable! There are stories that the Administration may change their candidate as soon as May. That is unverified, of course, since that is the way journalism seems to work these days. There is some controversy about who might replace the incumbents. May is still at least three months away in this […]

You may have noticed something different in the look-and-feel of The Daily. We know we have. We fell back to this old system a couple years ago when the profundity of newer and more popular systems came along. Our kids told us to look a little more au currant, and we tried for a while. […]

(The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Socotra House Publications. Our inability on this morning to change the font size of the title or add pictures direct into the text may reflect some eccentricity of the ancient America On Line application. We are struggling to repair). Goodness, there is a lot of “stuff” […]