The solar calendar still reads winter. The South Georgia almanac says: “Spring.” * * * We’re driving on a sandy dirt road somewhere in Atkinson County, Georgia. No map, no GPS, no hurry. The morning sun casts long shadows through the oaks. A sack of sausage and biscuits sits on the seat between us. Cups …
Not since Orson Welles’s radio version of War of the Worlds aired in 1938 has such panic ensued with the sighting of a white Chinese balloon overhead. How do we make sense of it? Read on. There it was, for days, visible with the naked eye, this white balloon, a gigantic surveillance eye in the sky, causing …