September 8, 2025 Enter Stage Right: The Demolition Crew.

George Washington in a whimsical mood I know, the events in these next few posts took place in the spring but it’s hard to keep up, y’know. The current administration loves living in the middle of chaos. It gives him the feeling he is a puppeteer and everyone around him look to him for direction.…

Playing catch-up: Inaugural review

The gaps in this journal seem to be getting longer and longer. It’s partly a sense of ennui from the shouting and alarms every day in the country formerly advertised as the birthplace of democracy Okay, ennui is not the right word. It implies an indifference and disinterest when it is more accurately a disbelief…

March 18 We’ve only Just Begun…

With the world focused on tariffs and a fine display of playground diplomacy there were a few moments of some folk questioning the chevauchée approach to reforming the civil service. The chain saw approach to personnel management was not obvious until the man leading the charge appeared with an actual chain saw in one hand…

March 3, 2025 Let March Madness begin

Time to put away the compilation of doomscrolling latest hits…anyone remember ‘K-Tel’ records? Hello? Anyone? Okay, gather ‘round boys and girls and hear the tale of of the birth of “But wait, there’s more” and SNL Legend Dan Ackroyd’s iconic Irwin Mainway, Bass O’Matic and 4 records in my closet stash with psychedelic covers proclaiming…

DT Commodus; Season 2: Chaos Restored

A Brief (yeah, okay, not so brief) Review Week 1 was spent walking around in a freshly concussed state of trying to remember the day and location. The question of ‘how many fingers am I holding?” replaced by what’s the current number of executive orders he’s issued today. It was impossible to keep track of…