The words in the title have been used many times in this extraordinary this year. Now what? I attempt to display a certain amount of omniscience here in the Daily, but I will confess our current situation exceeds even my normal hubris with numbers on that score. Up side: we have a President-Elect now. We […]

Well, here we are. This has worked out pretty much as expected. As I mentioned yesterday, it looked like the Senate run-off votes, compiled on the same machines as the ones in the disputed General Election, worked their magic properly. The margins of victory were microscopically above those which would have required a recount. It […]

New world, isn’t it? I went to bed with The Rev and Ossoff in the lead in their Georgia Senate run-off races. This morning, half of them were declared victors. The other will probably be declared the winner later today. Looks very much like a unified government again with all sorts of exciting new stuff […]

The title is derived from the German language, which we tried to avoid having to learn a couple times in a previous century. It once had an association with something else, used in the singular, but since we are talking about ‘big days’ here today and tomorrow that share some of the same themes of […]

In the part of America in which I spent many years, this was a marvelous day to combine ridding ourselves of the last vestiges of holiday merriment and acceptance of the growing horror that the new year was actually starting. This week used to be “next year.” That is part of our tradition, anyway, but […]

I just typed it for the second time. The new number still sends an electric thrill up my gnarled knuckles. Finally, 2020 is behind us and all will be well! I think that was the second use of an exclamation point for this bold new year. It was exciting! (Third time! Is there a limit […]

Sorry- I had intended to leave the New Year to yesterday and on the Eve of 2021, relax with the fire in the background. I fully intended to have some happy thoughts about the end of this year and the start of another. Hopefully a better one. That is a pretty low bar. Instead, there […]

The Royal Family- the descendants of the Kings who threw us out of our old homes- had a saying about bad years. They said it in Latin, to make it more prestigious sounding. “Annus Horribilis” has a grander aura than the mild profanity that has accompanied each month of 2020. It would be more appropriate […]

So, like everyone these days, I was chatting with one of my circles of pals. You have them, I am sure. They come in batches of orientation. You know the ones played out nationally in some much higher visibility. I could go into them with the acronyms we use these days for convenience. I don’t […]

In the days of old recruiting ads, there used to be one that featured the deck of an aircraft carrier, driving into the wind amid white foam. The ballet associated with bringing the ship into the wind and readying the powerful aircraft for flight was accompanied by the bold assertive remark: “Dawn Launch! Sea of […]