(We are driving from the River (one of them) back down to the Sea in 1989 or early 1990). This morning we had one of those little pastiche accounts of visits to odd places at times when there was a lot going on. We have bored you before with the mild tingle when our Air […]

This is a curious morning in your nation’s Capital. We wrote a brief appreciation of that event this morning with the intent to describe it with a humorous approach about how our public servants reward the taxpayers with their private conduct. This one happened in the Hill’s Senate Hart Building. We would have to run […]

(The late great Sandy Denny of the folk-rock band Fairport Convention). There is plenty to yammer on about this morning and we are not going to do it. This is a time of transformation, and we could raise our voices about matters like “Section-702!” or attorney-privilege. You’re lucky to be where you are, safe from […]

Thanks for letting us join you this splendid morning. The mid-Atlantic Coast of America is attempting to get a bit warmer as near the lunch hour. There is the list of Holiday things remaining to be done atop the old cabinet from the family general store that closed a few dozen crises ago. So, Holiday […]

We could probably distill the Weather Report to just a few words. You know them. All the stuff jumbled up in the graphic above are happening, against all reason. Overnight, with all that there is more to put late sparkle into the day. Congress senses the national and Constitutional crises in progress and will adjourn […]

It was refreshing to rise at home rather than the slightly softened authoritarian confines of the hospital! The image above contains the view from the bed in vertical wing of Virginia Hospital’s new SIX BEE where the future meets the past in the complexity and of our current adventures. The imposing towers mark the general […]

It is one of those days. Better said, yesterday was one, and today another one. They are predicting one tomorrow as well! The Doctor’s appointment did not go according to the routine. We normally arrive at his office over on South Carlin Springs about a half hour before the scheduled time and have the office […]

What with the budget cuts and all, it is not easy to deal with the State government, and a weekday seemed like the best bet, still with three weeks to Christmas. I found the DMV on a service drive in back of some auto-body places in an industrial park. I parked the car that is […]

The restoration of order was what was at stake in the Mekong Delta long ago, and the answer was a major change in the naval strategy supporting the land war in Indochina. A new and aggressive posture was adopted which called for naval personnel and operational units to be placed in critical lines of interior […]

A key provision of the law governing foreign-intelligence collection is up for reauthorization, and the stakes are high. In fact, there are people serving in our Government today for whom there could be real legal consequences for the next General Election. Here is the gist: “Section 702 extensively protects the privacy of Americans who are […]