It’s a cool night, and here, that’s an enormous relief after more than two weeks of unrelenting blastfurnace heat and humidity. Just past midnight in the eastern time zone, and I’m sitting back and relaxing after an event-filled weekend. Literally.

Saturday and Sunday (and several days leading up to the weekend) were consumed by the hoopla [...]

A gracious good afternoon from here, although we all know it may be just about any time when you get this document downloaded from some mysterious server somewhere. It’s yet another component of how cruising through the World Wide Web reminds me of the old days of surfing through clear-channel radio stations–those 50,000 watt ‘blowtorches’ [...]