We asked Legal to have their intern Melissa stop at the Metaphor Locker on her way to the morning production meeting at the picnic table. Splash had pulled in some of the more striking examples late in the previous day when the storm was changing intensity and pulled his end of the picnic table to […]

Sky News is a Brit source with which we have had experience. They report that the Hezbollah has managed a drone attack on a navy base which lies south of Haifa. That caused a pause in conversation, since most of the targets mentioned in the news torrent are just names. This is a place where […]

Let’s get the small stuff out of the way, shall we? The endless election is finally over. We could reveal the results this morning, but Legal tells us is there is some additional detail work that needs to be filled in by the other 161,4189,999 eligible voters, so we will stand by until they figure […]

Interesting morning out there, you know? The clouds lightened with a hint of seasonal chill obeyed by the species that migrate in North America to get further south. There may have been a million of them in the night sky, we couldn’t tell. The Israelis were awake though, since their morning is done by te […]

Arrias led it off this week with his call for a look at how business is done here in the United States. It is a topic that cries out for a little introspection, but we have been merrily beating that particular equestrian beast for a while, so we thought we would open things up with […]

It was the Autumnal Equinox a few minutes ago but we think we survived. We will see if there are a few seconds less light today, though the low-hanging clouds may provide some of the ambiguity to which we have become accustomed. We have adopted a pink-ish tone to the morning that retains a certain […]

(Vegetable Beef Soup on the Stove)   Well, they took lovely dead summer and put the green shroud on her, lickety-split. She was barely cold when Czar Peter and his pool-surfs showed up late yesterday.   Peter was at his leonine best, rich dark hair flowing like Fabio over his tanned muscular shoulders. He poured […]

The first official day of fall will start with coffee tomorrow on America’s right-hand coast. The last full-moon of summer is waning over the West Wing at our corporate HQ, the one we don’t directly work for, and which is not, therefore, responsible for anything we might be thinking from moment to moment.   We […]

Above right is the Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson. He has been in the news about his opposition to an acoustic sensing system known as “ShotSpotter” currently deployed in the Windy City, He recently dismissed the system as “nothing more than walkie-talkies on a stick.” That is a bit simplistic, since the system was designed […]

You can imagine the controversy at the Production Meeting. The collision between the messaging streams is remarkable at all levels of the information campaign. In the war that looks like the old ones with clips on the Flat Screen? There is grinding tension along the brutal line of contact adjoining both sides of the Donets […]