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The Rift on the Right

There is some stuff going on. The small groups of people who still communicate around the media streams are concerned. Mr. Trump made an effort in the Mid-Term Melt Down, but some of the red press is now advocating we “move on.” I am interested in it for the various reasons. The Blues have a […]

12 November 2003 Bought the Ticket- Let’s Ride! A picture containing textDescription automatically generated (Motto of the US State of Georgia. We all may be needing it shortly). Sorting it out is a challenge, isn’t it? There are challenges all around. Here at home, we still don’t know the composition of the Future. The American […]

An Armistice This Day

We know the new name for the day, but there are the remnants of a hurricane darkening the Piedmont sky above and the rain from the south is a uniform steady soak. There has been talk about early November weather of late amid trouble around the world. The anniversary of the wreck of ore-carrier Edmund […]

Post Election Weather Report

Morning, Folks! There is some excitement this morning as the impact of the ambiguous Mid-Term Election is converted into reaction. The deck appears remarkably divided and consequences are still being determined. There was a report that the government might be looking at Mr. Elon Musk about his business activities, so there is an air of […]

Voting In Balance

Since some of us in the Bunk House have certain personal requirements to rise in the middle of the night, there was some general consensus on the events of yesterday. General agreement was that there were grounds for some elation on both ends of the spectrum. Not so much in the middle. So, we have […]

Election Day

VOTE! If you haven’t, think about going out to the polling station and do the Deed. Vote. They don’t call it a “civic duty” for nothing. We live, at the moment, in Winston, Virginia. The Chairman’s Farm is a small component of two former great plantations in Virginia’s rolling verdant Piedmont country. The junction of […]

The Day Before

Arrias chimed in this morning with some basic civics. We feel is extremely useful, since the talk about “democracy” being threatened in America is really only appropriate if you don’t know how it works. The Founders of our nation- the majority of them- fought a king to ensure matters of public interest were discussed before […]

The Fires of Heck

02 October 2002 (This would have been an image of the “shape” of a weapon of mass destruction. It was a US Air Force picture, declassified in 1960, but unable to load due to local connectivity issues at The Farm). You can see from the date above the title that this outing (Morning? Afternoon?) is […]

Hamiltons

Strange times, aren’t they? We were worried about atomic war in Europe at the beginning of last week. Thursday, the Saudis claimed the Iranians were going to strike targets in the Kingdom, and the North Koreans continued to fire rockets to ocean areas around their cousins to the South. Naturally that sort of news may […]

Weather Report: On the Brink

Interesting start to a new month that ends the summer of campaigning. There is all that stuff flying around in the Wide World and the chaos of the American general election cycle. There was a technical challenge in just attempting to compile it all down on The Farm. We transferred the old “last backup” from […]