Sherlock Holmes speaks often of the “Baker Street Irregulars”, a bunch of ragamuffin street kids who help him solve cases. I think of myself during my early childhood as a “Holly Street Irregular” because my Mom and I lived downtown in Bellingham, Washington where she ran restaurants for a number of years and I…

I will go out on a limb here and now and predict that Joe Biden will win re-election this coming November. There are three reasons that lead me to this early conclusion, which of course presupposes that he will remain relatively healthy.      My first reason is that it is becoming clear that Trump’s campaign…