Once again, it’s August, and the weather here in the Outer Cape is warm and sultry. Suddenly, swimming my daily mile in Wellfleet’s clear glacial kettle-ponds, gathering and consuming our renowned oysters, gazing at the blue horizon, and slowly working my way through a swelling backlog of books (including Thomas West’s book about the Founding) all seem more urgent than paying any attention at all to events in the wider world, or scribbling dyspeptic commentary in these pages.
So I hope you will forgive me, dear readers, for a sharp reduction in output until early September. I’ll probably post something now and then; if so, new content will appear beneath this item, which I am going to pin to the top of the page.
Thanks to all, and enjoy the rest of the summer!
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I hope you can get in a spot of fishing as it is good for the ‘inner man’. Enjoy!
Thank you Robert! My friend Alec Stansell, a master angler (I will plug his website, here), has been teaching me fly-fishing, so I do intend to do some of that as well. (My mother having grown up in Scotland, I should have taken up the sport long ago.)
Well if I wasn’t jealous before, I am now!
Which is not to say I am sorry you wrote about this. Us beknighted souls depend on tidbits like these to remind us of better worlds.
A refreshing counterpoint to the usual suspect (*John Schindler) who, very unlike the usual actually has Agency experience.
Y’all will notice neither of the two regular liberal panelists even attempt to take Colonel Shaffer on:
https://www.mclaughlin.com/
But to be sure … as the finer point of what seems to’ve gotten lost from the CNN & et al’s current narrative – “the 17 agencies of the IC all concluded” – which is bullshit and ever was – here for review:
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
*Mr Schindler was NSA and, on close inspection of the pdf we can see that even the NSA’s joining the last administration’s product was neither of sufficient quality, or corroborated, as to warrant the high level of confidence the current media narrative would presently have it.
Too, far as
Mr WeinerMr Schindler being so smart:https://www.stripes.com/news/us/navy-professor-resigns-after-racy-photo-inquiry-1.297789
Do forgive me, spd. I’m old enough to be “semi-retired”, and to enjoy these modest rewards after decades of sedulous toil.