Splash is not at his best on Saturday mornings, which is to say, when he is actually at his best it is better to just let him go where he is going, follow with mild interest, and let him blaze a path into the sort of reality he prefers. Some of us were up early. […]

We do not know if you are keeping track of the days. At Refuge Farm we are, mostly out of a sort of morbid curiosity about the biggest bill in the history of the United States Congress. It is supposed to be voted on this morning. A Friday. Rocket looked a little stunned. “If it […]

We ran a short piece about “Build Back Better” this morning. Chairman Socotra sent a note down from the Big House, saying he was pleased we did not pick up on the still-hanging jury in the Karl Rittenhouse case in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He prefers to let the wheels of justice spin their merry way and […]

Thursday is a big morning at The Farm. The Writer’s Section is responsible for showing up- in person- to defend past production, defer erroneous predictions, and justify ones not yet proven to be false. The meeting is right before lunch, not after, since Management knows what is likely to happen after that. Increasingly, it is […]

Remember the Burma Shave signs? I know, I know. Only oldsters remember them in fact. Most folks do have a passing acquaintance with parodies from modern information campaigns, and naturally we pile on like everyone else. We had a talk about that in the pre-production meetings. It started, naturally enough, with the topic of “shaving,” […]

(Danny Fenster hugs mother Rose as Bill Richardson, right, looks on this morning. Danny was released from a Burmese jail yesterday after conviction by a military court last Friday, and immediately departed on a flight to the U.S. Press accounts indicate Bill escorted him on the flight, which accounts for why it was difficult to […]

(Journalist Danny Fenster, left, and Bill Richardson, right, celebrate liberation. Danny will not spend the next decade in a dank Burmese jail. He is headed home because of Bill’s efforts. Photo AP). Want a hero for a Monday morning? We have one for you. His name is Bill Richardson. He is one of our heroes. […]

Times being what they are, we were thinking about Formosa. That leads to part of the confusion. That large island is now known as “Taiwan,” and reflects some of the who-and-where parts of China’s rise. We are in the process of having another Formosa crisis with some new names. We do that periodically. When many […]

Splash looked particularly good this morning. It is not unusual to see him arrayed in costume- at least on weekends. He adjusted some of the brass buttons on his tunic as he sat on one of the more elevated stone around the Fire Ring. The choice of stone reflected his mood, since it put him […]