Author: Vic Socotra

Post Election Weather Report

Morning, Folks! There is some excitement this morning as the impact of the ambiguous Mid-Term Election is converted into reaction. The deck appears remarkably divided and consequences are still being determined. There was a report that the government might be looking at Mr. Elon Musk about his business activities, so there is an air of […]

Life & Island Times: Blue or Red, Just Like Black

Author’s Note: Woke up this morning under windy, grey, Nicole-sodden skies with cable channel talking heads yammering on about “Blue or Red.” My immediate rough response was “Same as Black…” -Marlow Blue or red, just like black Blue or red, just like black Night cold fell hard again, we’re all alone Skin wet and chilled […]

Harvest time is over

Author’s Note: Now that this transformational mid-term hoo-haa election with the impact of a small dry fart is dissipating, I have this short piece to offer. -Marlow Let’s talk a bit about today’s subject after a decidedly ho-hum election where hair-on-fire predictions of coming possible frauds were rampant. Despite some huffing and puffing on various […]

Voting In Balance

Since some of us in the Bunk House have certain personal requirements to rise in the middle of the night, there was some general consensus on the events of yesterday. General agreement was that there were grounds for some elation on both ends of the spectrum. Not so much in the middle. So, we have […]

Life & Island Times: Peanu​t Butter Box Is Here

Editor’s Note: a NSFW image concludes Marlow’s Election Day Essay. You can save yourself from seeing the expletive if you just read the lucid words and quickly hit the exit button as you get further on and see the top of the colorful image. You might go vote. – Vic 08 November “Election Day” 2022 […]

Election Day

VOTE! If you haven’t, think about going out to the polling station and do the Deed. Vote. They don’t call it a “civic duty” for nothing. We live, at the moment, in Winston, Virginia. The Chairman’s Farm is a small component of two former great plantations in Virginia’s rolling verdant Piedmont country. The junction of […]

Arrias: It’s Not A Democracy

Among those elites who would shape our view of things there is a meme that they like to intone, in an often condescending voice: democracy dies in darkness. It has even made it into several movies. The problem, of course, is that we don’t live in a democracy; we live in a republic. And the […]

The Day Before

Arrias chimed in this morning with some basic civics. We feel is extremely useful, since the talk about “democracy” being threatened in America is really only appropriate if you don’t know how it works. The Founders of our nation- the majority of them- fought a king to ensure matters of public interest were discussed before […]