We peaked too soon for pre-election preparedness since it is now hurtling this way like a black German sedan. Saturday finds us low on fuel in what passes for staff utility transportation, so the fifteen minute city is all around and in scooper range if you can find one charged and not just dumped on […]

Legal kept the note short this morning. They seem relieved the campaign is finally almost over. We were inclined to just run it by itself, since it would be shorter. “Change coming. Be aware.” That seemed to conjoin common sense and social response to the partisan divide. We are part of the end of Journalism. […]

Legal said we could mention two of the holidays in progress today, so long as it was done with respect and without mocking anything. We appreciate that. It makes those first seven cups of fresh java a little easier to deal with. But confusion is abroad in all the messaging, since there are so many […]

Oh, the stuff out there with a week to go? Surprises have to be launched in the next 72 hours to have decent coverage before the Big Event next Tuesday. There will be a special afternoon edition to cover what is unfolding now, not in detail, but just to sample the issues in motion. Rocket […]

We are tired of the Big Surprise watch and Splash has taken to sitting on the Patio until he is confident everyone else has gone to bed before he can press his phone screen to display: “Not Last Night” and burn a last cigarillo in the crisp dark air, Orion’s bright arm rising about the […]

The Chairman shoke Section Leader DeMille’s hand energetically on his way to do some business that might have involved a mimosa and a white tablecloth. He said: “Doesn’t look like the Israeli’s did more than send a real powerful signal, so I am going to see if we can get cozy with the company that […]

So, Arrias stops by with a load of poems dispatched by his Muse. There is some agitation in the circle around the picnic table. The annual meeting of the Old Spooks organization is later, over at the Country Club our grandfather’s generation built on the old farms in Arlington. So, the Production Meeting turned into […]

The Chairman directed extra attention be placed on things while the Election and Surprises are Looming. That means someone is supposed to prep for the morning Production Meeting, which produces some scrawls of unintelligible phrases. This morning’s list started without identification of region. The strike at Boeing just re-ignited and it just had another satellite […]