Be Careful What You Wish For

Less than three weeks to go. What do you mean, “until what?” Do we really have to specify? The suspense has us thinking back 82 years, when 156,116 men spent hours crammed into open boats, being knocked about by waves, and thinking—or trying not to think—about what was going to happen next. We’re not saying we’d rather be storming the beaches of Normandy, but waiting for the mid-term elections is challenging our equanimity. Fortunately we are dry and safe—and do we ever have distractions. Here’s one we didn’t see coming: The Man Who Need Not Be Named [TMWNNBN] has finally found someone in his administration …

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Volume 271, No. 3

Once again, thanks in large part to our small team of dedicated volunteers, thousands of copies of our conveniently-sized paper—small enough to pocket and pass on to another reader—are now available, for free, here in Portsmouth and environs. If you click here, our latest issue—the whole thing—in digital form, will appear more or less miraculously on the glassy face of whatever gadget into which you’re now peering.