Author: Vic Socotra

Ranked Choice Voting

Author’s Note: The reality of life is at times complex. At the moment, unloading the condominium at the place that was my home for two decades interferes with normal activity. I was screening a load of notes and bills last examined some thirty years ago to determine if useful information might inadvertently be disclosed in […]

Weather Report

Considering the level of complexity in today’s world, this will be short and to the point.  It isn’t “all the money in the world,” not really. It is just the equivalent of arguing about two or three time the equivalent of the national budget of one of the most successful economies in human history. If you haven’t […]

Simmering Issues

This would be one of those “Winds of Change” features if I had the energy. It was a tough day for old people yesterday, an adventure in the world being born and the one to which we are starting to bid farewell.There is something happening in this wide and wonderful land, and to take note of […]

The Level of Interest

  It is a lovely morning in Virginia’s placid Piedmont. Night had been good, the full moon fading and a rare streak of a falling star brightening a night of changing weather. Rains also came overnight, and the greenery that surrounds us is shaking off moisture with determination. The Lady in Red on the flat-screen […]

The Latest Crisis

It was a grim bunch down by the loading dock. It had been a Monday morning, traditionally a hard day for people who work, and different even for mostly retired professionals like the ones who smoked down in the remaining area it is permitted on Refuge Farm. We sorted through the emergencies confronting us and […]

Arrias: Speak Up for the Microphone

You know, the one in your phone. The phone that is turned off…             The Bill of Rights… We’ve all read it a hundred times, but go back and read it again, particularly the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments. We all pretty much know the key clauses by heart (if you’ve watched cop shows in […]

Life & Island Times: Notes on Ted and His Hood

Editor’s Note: We got a great note of spleen about one of those educational comedies that masquerade as education these days. It turned into a Winds of Change story the Writer’s Section dubbed “Useful Idiots.” Winds stories are part of a blunt work intended to be a sequel to the well-received “The 70 Days,” a short […]

Off the Property

OK- The Writers Section is ready to talk about Infrastructure. We voted dead even on the matter, and then had to call in someone from another sector who knew nothing about the issue to decide it fairly. The whole thing has been a little complicated, since there was disagreement about what it was we were […]