Editor’s Note: Did you watch the convention last night? The magnificent spectacle of the 2020 election continues, an affirmation that the old United States is behind us now. We touched on the information campaign line-up yesterday, and while amusing, it just isn’t quite a funny as the great events unfolding before us deserve. This morning, […]

Editor’s Note: All the people I knew who were confronted by the prospect of being ground up in the invasion of Japan’s home islands are gone. Dad’s class at Pensacola were weeks away from having the Wings of Gold pinned on their Aviation Green uniforms and line up for transportation to the Far East. Our […]

Point Loma’s ruminations on a changing culture brought a marked response from a crowd of those who grew up in the old culture. Marlow was inspired to characterize the perspective of age on us all. First, some of the pithier ones: Joemaz: After reading the call sign adventures of how a lost Naval Aviator had […]

Editor’s Note: Gentle readers, we are blessed to have some great submissions from Arrias, Marlow and Point Loma this week. In hierarchy Arrias dealt with a national numbers crisis. Marlow today explores out institutions and the nature of their generational change. Tomorrow Point Loma will take us to the tactical level of organizations, and the […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow has been mining some of the same recollections that many of the Boomer generation have dredged up in this latest transitional period of the Republic. This one captures the unspoken images of the generation that preceded us. It is worth remembering as we turn the shop over to a generation that doesn’t. […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow continues his account of the Plague Times in this 32nd installment of his Plague Chronicles account of the course of the Wuhan Flu in his part of the American tapestry. It has been an interesting time, and despite his observation that the virus has run its course, a whole series of downstream […]

Author’s Note: Vic, Inspired by your Gonzo Station revisit piece and thanks to tequila and Hunter S Thompson this was written. -Marlow Editor’s Note: I had planned on posting this later in the week, when Marlow’s particular take on public emergency feels right. But times being what they are, it seems appropriate to release today. […]

I just recovered a few more memory fragments from our early plague time days . . . Let’s just say up front that this has been a slow (strange and unpleasant) ride. Well before our city started shutting down in early March, W and I started limiting our contact with the world. That meant us […]

As you may have guessed, I come from a strange, if not an odd lot, stock. The members of my family were mostly asthmatics, meat eaters, blatherers, triads, seafarers, nailbiters and the occasional seaport liquid substance abuser. But we’ve always been happy and long lived. The thing that used to keep me alive was the […]

In my opinion, HG Wells made one mistake in his Time Machine novel. Humanity’s dominant class will never be forced to descend into the earth’s depths and become neo-Neanderthals like the Morlocks. Instead, as we are seeing in this century the elites are pale, urban, and effete, looking more like scrawny, Peleton-riding Eloi than the […]