Author’s Note: The winnowing process of 2020 Presidential candidates has halved the field after the initial summer debates. The horse race still looks about the same with the pack leaders still in their same approximate Win-Show-Place positions. Still leading the polls despite frequent stumbles, the leader as the field enters turn one is Biden his […]

Coastal Empire, Dorian Edition Editor’s Note: I am getting this out a little late, but wanted to get the latest on Hurricane Dorian’s landfall- or partial landfall- in the Carolinas. The below accounts from Marlow outline the last preparations at his house in Charleston. The Navy has sortied the Fleet to more welcoming waters, and […]

Author’s note: I had planned to send this out later this month, but then Odessa and Midland Texas happened yesterday. – Marlow Alternate Thoughts on America’s Mass Shootings Guns for sale at Walmart Editor’s note: Now that the media has moved onto the next bright shiny new toy, it’s time to share these random thoughts […]

We’re now officially halfway through Storm Season 2019 in the Coastal Empire lowlands. It’s been a quiet one thus far, so the Weather Channel gnomes have been staying at home and biding their time. Dorian and his grey, wet and windy skies appeared on our 7 day predict horizon very early this week; and, man […]

One afternoon last week after morning eye surgery, I reclined quietly in a leather chair with my eyes closed in our darkened living room. I snoozed off and on. Drifting about I heard the following monologue. These are strange days indeed. Moderator: Good evening. Tonight is the first installment of the second phase of the […]

After last week’s piece on road-earth revelations these words about the Great Plains folks I met along the way surfaced. It was a strong, lonely place of dreamers The plains weren’t kindly to tyrants or schemers There were no fake patriotic wreaths Desperation wasn’t part of the air they breathed At meal tables was equality […]

NDN (pronounced En Dee En) was a short-lived road nickname that was bestowed upon me during one of my earliest, long distance, two-wheeling trips as I motorcycled the back roads as a light brown buffalo man in black leather in the dustier regions of the great plains. Given to me in Kansas, it stood for […]

The past week in America saw three unprovoked spasms of public mass violence in Gilroy CA, El Paso TX and Dayton OH. The perps were young single males. While violent crime is hardly the preserve of unmarried men, statistical evidence across the world shows a disproportionate amount of crimes are committed by this group. Societies […]

The utter madness of our daily national politics caused me to pause during the month just past to consider the local crazy in which I live and that I enjoy. Late last week I heard a Bob Dylan song on a cable TV music channel that lead me in a different direction. Fifty four summers […]

Author’s Note: Due to my advanced age, I am late in detecting several ripples in the American media space-time fabric. They involve words that I thought I understood but apparently did not. Here are three. – Marlow Squad Being aware of modern young uns approach to language, I first thought it might be the past […]