We are not kidding about that matter. This isn’t the “start” of anything new. We just took a break for a few months of seasonal warmth. The warning about coastal flooding came with the passage of Tropical Storm Ophelia. It would have been more spectacular if her winds had been a little more forthright, like […]

It is the Autumnal Equinox today and it appears that we are sliding into fewer minutes of daylight time, lower temperatures, and the arrival of the festive holiday season. We had thought about non-compliance, since the summer was fairly pleasant with the dazzling late-afternoon light flooding Big Pink’s placid Patio. A fellow named Mike Nevradakis […]

Sorry to do this to you on an otherwise pleasant morning. The internal discussion that follows would have been in the mid-1990s, during the 104th Congress. It got recycled in 2003, only twenty years ago, and some of it cleaned up only this morning from old notes. It had another title when it first appeared: […]

(Attached are pictures of General Charles Brown, nominee for Chairman of the Joint Staff and serving Senator John Fetterman. AOL will still not let us embed the images). The United States Senate is the premier legislative body on this planet. They tell us that all the time, and it is worth remembering. Well-dressed members will […]

This was a challenging morning in terms of data flow. We were up early and made an attempt to screen the incoming overnight message traffic. There are at least a couple news stories in play, all of them connected with the election circus that is supposed to culminate next year some time. There were charges […]

(For reasons best known to AOL we can’t just drop the carefully assembeled picture in this place. Instead, we must attach it with digits from someplace else). Big morning here in DC! Which we are not in, or at least not exactly, the Patio being on the Western side of the Potomac. We are still […]

It did not take long, did it? The packaging was prepared during what used to be the Regular Order period in budget formation for the vast, sprawling, incoherent budget of the United States of America. Who benefits from all this madness? Without the Budget, or at least “a budget,” a lot of stuff has to […]