(Jinny Thomas, Martha-Ann Alito and Loren Merchan were in the news recently. Jinny is married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Martha-Ann to Samuel Alito on the Court and Loren is the daughter of the Judge who is trying a former President for an inappropriate book-keeping error that might have been fraudulent if it had […]

The trial of Donald Trump has finished its fifth week up in New York. Expectation from the legal pundits were that District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against the former president rested on one person alone: Michael Cohen. His testimony was a disaster, and the trial may end up sooner than expected. There could still be […]

We were told not to think by Management until things settle down a bit and we are clear of any of the legal entanglements currently in motion. We couldn’t avoid some thoughts in the swirl of messaging about that trial up in New York. We were perplexed about the President’s remarks about “I think you […]

(Going around the LawFare clock, starting at upper left, are three “formers:” they are a President, an attorney, and Porn Star, On the line below, left to right, are a current New Jersey Senator, a President’s son and a Texas Congressman. The courtroom circuses of the past week have been diizzying. The players include Mr. […]

We got caught up in that fight between the Writer’s Section, Legal and Marketing yesterday. They are in a tussel about a potential second edition of one of the old titles called “Stones of the District.” There are two of the interns from Marketing and Legal now iin the process of shredding one of the […]

It is a week jammed with anniversaries, some of them a little disquieting. Today, for example, is VE Day- “Victory in Europe, 1945” as we also observe something unfolding in Europe again some eight decades later. We will talk about that tomorrow, in the context of Russia’s observation of the Soviet Victory Day that we […]

It is clear and blue out there on The Patio. Still a bit chill, and the first Production Meeting of the new week lurched into immediate conflict. This did not directly involve the Writers Section, though it was the venue for the first company dispute about production priorities. There is plenty swirling here in town, […]

Tough one this morning. News of departures from this world lent a shadow as pervasive as the gray clouds that obscured the Aurora of the big solar storm. Let’s gt the ceremonial and honorific part done first. It is Mother’s Day. We interred the one with whom we were privileged to participate tangentially in the […]

Author’s Note: The memorial service for Jane Reddig is scheduled for 11:00AM this morning at Kirk in the Hills in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Visit the Kirk’s website at the “worship from home” tab to join the Livestream coverage. – Vic TANSTAAFL (This colorful chart is lifted from the Powerline blog. We do not know the […]

(The usual caption to the seven day forecast image is “yeah,” and “all the stuff above is happening.”) We would normally update the overnight developments on existing streams of our chaotic current events with some pithy observations. We are not going to have to do that, since there are reports of a coming storm that […]