Brutal Reality The brutalist architecture of government buildings sometimes hints at a brutal reality. The global COVID pandemic can surely…
This is another “stray thoughts” post. Plucked, for the most part, from the headlines. A tacit admission that I’m short…
Folks in some quarters are very excited about reports that classified materials were found at several locations frequented by Pres.…
As we enter this holiday season with too much on our minds, it is once again time for some shared…
I should never have gone there. Should have been content to look forward, not backward. Should have listened more closely…
One of the hazards of my profession obsession are the tantalizing bits that float in our shared consciousness. You know,…
Sheila Toomey is, by any measure, one of the best crime and justice reporters to come out of Alaska. Every…
In 1979, I took an editing job in Washington, D.C. I was assigned one volume in a multipart study on…
During the course of my research, I occasionally come across interesting tidbits. Since my focus inevitably takes me into earlier…
[My] Spam On The Rise The year 2020 suddenly found me semi-famous. There were two television documentaries; I played a…