Opening Day! · This is not a War story. Today is opening day; baseball is back. Below, a decent photo (if I say so myself, but then it wasn't the current anticamera) from early spring last year at Yankee stadium. Since I was corresponding earlier today with a reader from Murmansk (!), quite possibly many reading this are not baseball fans, for which my sympathy ...
Carl Hiaasen and Meta-Journalism · This note is to recommend books by Carl Hiaasen, with a brief reflection on the future of journalism provoked by his latest, Basket Case ...
Tribal Meta-Warfare · I have no predictions on the war, but I'm smelling a frightening trend in the cultural forces that are building up around it, back here in the West. I'm getting a strong sniff of the late sixties here, and not a pleasant one ...
