The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Sort of a challenging writing environment right now, given that I'm sitting in a deposition. Well, in fact we're waiting for the witness to show up. What a glorious thing if she doesn't, and I have this hour for something less stultifying. I mentioned this week a desire to avoid the boring, repetitive views out the

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. -Walt Whitman Walt, you were right old friend, but maybe not in the way you might've anticipated then. I say that and then think that he worked in military hospitals during the Civil War. He probably would have understood this moment better than I do. Yesterday, at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, where I lived from age five through ten, my beloved Marietta, there was a rally featuring the Mad King. A

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. -Albert Camus After all those repetitive shots of life goinng past outside the window here at the Schoolhouse, I figured I'd post a different shot, from my windshield as I drove to the post office a few minutes ago. Market Street is a block to the left, in the

"The German army was the best tactical instrument in the world, but it was employed in the service of a strategy of bedazzlement that was essentially lunatic.” -Max Hastings This morning's headlines included the whopper that the Department of Defense/War is about out of money. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/21/pentagon-sinking-billions-into-iran-is-quickly-running-short-cash/ How exactly does one run a trillion-dollar-a-year enterprise out of money w