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Swamp Postcard: Waiting for the Storm

It has been a quiet week, or at least it is down on Refuge Farm. The political internals in the Swamp have the people responsible concentrating on each other. They can get back to the citizens when they get a chance. Down in the country, we have blue skies this morning with fresh chill breeze. […]

The Seventy Days

Yesterday was a day all its own. We could talk about the screaming school board up in Fairfax County. That was fun, what with one of them castigating parents for “wanting their babysitters back.” There is other COVID-related stuff going on, of course. And politics. It seems to me that the plague panic will peter […]

Delay in Transmission

Morning! There is a certain delay in things this morning. It is a common thing these days. You know, National History, Public Health, Climate, Cold & Warmth and Continuing Emergencies. That sort of stuff. All of them in strange confluence. Before I could even get to that I had a problem of transportation. Not the […]

The Emergency

(Old Style Medical Emergency). Had a chat this morning with pals in Colorado and down on the Chesapeake. The former reported -15F, with a slow increase to maybe -5 later in the morning. Chesapeake reports rain and much “warmer” in the 30s, which is about where we are in Virginia’s gentle-climed Piedmont. The nice Lady […]

Two-For-Three

So, the Saturday Zoom call got squashed by the ice storm out in Pac NORWEST. We rescheduled for Sunday, eager to talk about what happened on the Hill, but it turned out to be not much. They tried to impeach the former President again, or they actually did impeach him- again- and he was acquitted. […]

Ice Age

(Our modest Virginia snow and ice. More to come today. I could show you a picture of the truck-wreck, but I think this is illustrative enough, you know?) Oh, I know things are not going to amount to much, but the icy rain in Texas contributed to dozens of accidents. The nice lady in Red […]

Shirley Plantation

Editor’s Note: There is some stuff going on all around us that is extremely interesting, and while tinged with some of the appurtenances of the old United States, seems like something altogether new. It will be fun to see it unfold, and naturally the entire editorial slate was summoned for critical theory indoctrination and the […]

Swamp Postcard: Getting On With the Program

Well, we are doubling down on some crazy stuff this week. A look at the number of extra-constitutional decrees from the Oval Office is interesting. One positive note, President Biden seems to be able to perform on camera, which is an improvement from his description by opponents as being in cognitive decline. Of course, the […]

What’s New is Old

It is cool living in these times. There is excitement in the air. I thought we had seen it all- generally good economic times, fending off international threats with fair success. The air was cleaner than it was in our youth. We were free to do just about anything legal. Not a perfect system, since […]

Snow Day

The snow came like they said it would. Prediction was a little off, of course. The nice lady in the red dress said it would be “one o’clock.” I had to do some presumptive work on that one, since she could have meant tomorrow after lunch or that tiny little hour in the darkness while […]