Editor’s Note: There are many balls in the air now, and at a raucous staff meeting the decision was made to look at other times. Some assembly had been done on a project involving Cold War activities on the global front. This is a snapshot of life more than 40 years ago. Every generation has […]

(A routine mostly peaceful parade in the PACNORWEST on Inauguration Day. It is like the weather.) Here, it is a lovely day in Virginia’s Piedmont: bright sun, rich blue sky and just the chill of the persistent winter to envelope us. On clear days like this as darkness washes over, we watch what appear to […]

What a week! Today is 01/21/21, a symmetrical date unlikely to be back any time soon. This Postcard, from a Swamp perspective, is a happy one. Mr. Biden was safely inaugurated yesterday, though it required locking-down the capital with the greatest number of troops on the streets since the Civil War. There is a sense […]

While it is not over quite yet, we just saw Marine-1 leave the White House lawn with the President and First Lady aboard. He has the nuclear release codes with him. That package will go inactive at noon or so, and the ones given to to President Biden will give him the keys to Hell. […]

It is a giddy sort of day here in the Piedmont of Virginia. Great clear sunrise, sparse but attractive clouds. Temperature rising, low humidity. Nice winter day, pleasant for a smoke out on the back deck and watch the vulture circling over the bottom of the east pasture. It is the Day Before, as you […]

Just got off a Zoom call with pals. I have a couple groups that try to do it, in keeping with new social protocols of the Emergency era. I would call it the COVID Emergency, but there has been such enormous success with Emergency rule from the State and Federal governments over the pandemic that […]

Editor’s Note: There is more going on today than I can process. It includes the physical presence of a Direct installation specialist, a strange smooth voice from the Subcontinent and upgraded equipment. So, in the interest of “context,” this is how we arrived in the Great Room at Refuge Farm in the morning. It is […]

Editor’s Note: Strange day at the farm. Satellite connectivity was sporadic and required long conversations with service agents who do not work near here by a few thousand miles. So, news coverage of the remarkable emotions abroad in the land were punctuated by long sessions reduced to old DVR’s, originally purchased to provide coverage when […]

So, all that stuff is going on. It is difficult to keep track of, and we were expecting a bit of a lull between the Congressional Joint Session and Riot on the sixth, and the Zoom version of an inauguration on the 20th. This morning’s show was unexpected, though it followed some familiar forms. This […]

(Wolf Blitzer, then and now). I may have mentioned this before, but I have been startled this week. Having come from a career that involved actual warfare, rather than the virtual version we have seen in the Plague Year it almost passed me by. I had a piece of humorous writing from one of Socotra’s […]