There was a brief blurb in the news about a Korean Incident. Apparently a NORK patrol boat was chasing a Chinese boat and ventured south of the Northern Limit Line. It collided with a ROK patrol boat. Two sailors died. Some of used to work those incidents, which always had the potential for incidental escalation. […]

Goodness, what a weekend has arrived! Spring gave us a quick embrace of warmth this week. The trees have transitioned from sparse black branches to brilliant green leaves. She also retains a sense of humor and reeled back the temperatures for the weekend to remind us of her power. It was another of those weeks. […]

End of Bloomeroo ’23! Gotcha! This piece isn’t about Cobbler treats, delicious as they were though we do have an article with a recipe we were holding for the Refuge Farm Cookbook. The memo from Legal was the first thing on the agenda this morning. They were apparently planning on a Friday with loose compliance […]

The Justice Department has released the criminal complaint against Massachusetts Air National Guard Airman First Class Jack Teixeira. We are keeping this short, since the FBI special agent on point informed a Federal Court of probable cause that Airman Teixceira had violated two parts of: Title 18 federal code: Section 793, which falls under the […]

The point of these weekly updates is to mark a moment in the later week to highlight the nature of change in our world so we can anticipate what might be coming next. We normally pick one of us to do the verbal narrative, which usually starts out with “And all this stuff is going […]

(Senior US Senator Diane Feinstein, 2004) It’s Wednesday, the Hump day for this cycle. The Lady in Red on the office flatscreen says it is warm again, temps in the mid-80s, but with a cooling trend approaching with rain by this weekend. In the meantime, our clouds will burn off here above the Potomac River […]

(Chiang Kai-shek Tomb Guard, Taipei, Taiwan 1981) It is a sunny Monday to start things after the conclusion of Holy celebrations for three major faiths. Easter was great here, with a joyous family brunch across Route 50 under cloudless skies. By the time we were able to focus again, word was spreading from across the […]

Port Call Al-Iskandariya, 1990 Downsizing is an interesting evolution. We are in the process at the moment. Looking through the different old directories stacked up in the computer was interesting in attempting unscramble the past. Part of it is a numbers thing. Did we make all 50 States? How many nations? And was it six […]

…(( Behind us as the ruling party, all Party members and cadres must really imbibe morality, really need integrity, impartial work, must keep our party clean, must preserve our party in books, must conflict with the party being a healthy person of the people…)) Ho-Chi Minh We would expect nothing else, of course. But the […]

(Easter Baskets aligned. Delightful Carrot Cake prepared. Today’s observance underway!) The Legal guys told us we could go back to casual commentary regarding religion just as soon as things cool down a little on the litigation front. Just a precaution, they say, but they note the tide of stuff rising around us. We respectfully demure […]