Wait! Don’t for a moment think that we are talking about the tidal wave of human beings who were moved by bus with Mexican police escorts to our southern border near Ciudad Benito Juarez. Ten of those buses a day, improbably funded by unknown sources, who are then discharged to walk to the US border, […]

(This is one of the rail cars WER Designed. That is clearly his image behind the wheel, and we have a pretty good idea who the kid might be!) We could launch on a Twitter-rama tale this morning, but the idea that in America, land of the free, we now have a government that….oh hell. […]

Editor’s Note: The controversies in the morning stream of news are mildly interesting on this day, nearly four decades after living in, around or under the direction of the Emerald City on the other side of the Potomac River. There was a mild argument in the Writer’s Section about exactly when things started to come […]

Author’s Note: It is sort of weird moving back into a place you have lived before. Old and new stuff gets all jumbled up. It can be fun. In the case of Big Pink, it now amounts tour having lived in five units there over twenty years. We recalled some of them due to a […]

There is some unusual stuff in the Weather Report this morning. A Senator from Arizona- Kristen Sinema- announced she is leaving the Democrat Party. She is not joining the dread Republicans, though. She is describing herself now as an “Independent,” and will continue to caucus with whoever she pleases. That means that despite the run-off […]

A couple shots from old news clips showed up in another flurry of ancient paper. The original captions express the emotions of the times. In this case, it was July of 1944. I can’t tell if it was saved because Dad is one of the young men facing the bulletin board to look for news […]

So the odd stuff continues to surface up at the new residence at Big Pink after the move from The Farm. I was starting to sort that big stack of papers that had accumulated since last year’s taxes and the assorted papers from my folks estate that never had been examined. I was looking for […]

(The cover of Walter Lord’s landmark book). December 7th, 1941, America was at peace. Onboard the grey ships in the harbor, Chaplains wakened early to get ready for holy services. Mess cooks rose to begin to cook masses of eggs, rashers of bacon, and vats of potatoes for the crews. It was Sunday, the day […]

(Senior Chief Bobbie K. Hubbard, USN-Ret. Photo Socotra) We are having a cold spell on the East Coast. No snow yet, but some places in the Midwest already have feet of the white stuff. Low clouds, intermittent rain. We are only permitted to smoke outdoors by management, so our attention to the wet chill breeze […]

(Image courtesy of CNBC. Dr. Fauci noted in his remarks that “I don’t care if you’re a far-right Republican or a far-left Democrat, everybody deserves to have the safety of good public health and that’s not happening.”) This was a tough morning at the Writer’s Section. We normally enjoy Mondays. As mostly retired people- retired […]