Achieved under a lot of pressure from the Carter administration, one of its relatively few notable achievements — although there was an NPR programme on Friday about how his presidency is more recent… (View Post)

I have the DVD at home; Band of B excelled because it followed the same group of guys (less their casualties) from training in the US through D-Day to the fall of Germany. Pacific jumped about here a… (View Post)

The polled gender gap is huge, and growing. And women tend to vote more. It’s not impossible that Harris could land a decisive win. (View Post)

Here it’s 28C, rising towards 30, sunny and humid. But looks like any Virginia flooding will be minor, thankfully. And, yes, a lot of houses have full Halloween decking out already, and it’s not even… (View Post)

Morning on the James River, with dog. White dot on the far bank is a stork or heron, watching the Carolina drift wood going by. Site of the earliest surviving British settlements in the Americas. And… (View Post)