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May 27, 2021 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Isle Seat Revisited

There is so much going on that it is past amusing, beyond funny and frankly into the amazing. Still, the production schedule at Socotra LLC demands attention. There is a growing neat stack of funny- poignant funny- tales of Marlow’s return to the mystic isle at the end of the Florida Keys. It has been […]

May 27, 2021 Vic Socotra

John Warner Leaves the Quarterdeck

John William Warner, 18 February 1927-25 May 2021 Senator, Secretary of the Navy, Gentleman (Above: John Warner being presented an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth in 2009. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock) As you are aware, Socotra House attempts to keep a respectful account of the departure of people who have shared- or shaped- the events of this […]

May 26, 2021 Vic Socotra

Weather Report: Going to the Dogs

Goodness, there is a lot to cover this week! Some of it is sort of fun. Other parts are weird. Some of that seem to be part of madness. There is word the new Department of Defense Budget will be proposed on Friday, and it contains lots of fun items. That is in parallel to […]

May 25, 2021 Vic Socotra

Laughter at the Long Green Table

(This is the Long Green Table used for staff meetings. It is normally more vibrant, but Legal gave the opinion that having the people who sit at the LGT in the picture could be used by others to identify potential non-linear thinkers, militia members or other threats to good order and discipline. A training unit […]

May 24, 2021 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Rational Leadership

Editor’s Note: Arrias leads us off this week with some observations on what is rational in our world and what is not. It struck the Editorial Board as a sensible start to a week that is filled with irrationality, if not outright madness. One of my touchstones in the ongoing climate debate is the mutability […]

May 23, 2021 Vic Socotra

Brood X in the Car

We have been talking about them for a couple decades. They came the last time a little short of two decades ago. They were a trip- big bugs long as most of finger. Cool looking, efficient wings and a loud voice. Up North in Arlington and the DC sprawl west they were staggering in number. […]

May 22, 2021 Vic Socotra

MARAD

(SS Savanah underway on Steam Power, 1819). If you were expecting some news about the Brood X Cicada outbreak you will have to wait. It is May 22 today, and one to honor one of those things on our National Calendar. You may still be celebrating National NASCAR and Pizza Party Day, which of course […]

May 21, 2021 Vic Socotra

A Magnificent Morning

What a morning! Up just past 0600 as the ambivalence of the pre-dawn Piedmont faded into a warm and golden dawn. A massive high pressure airmass embraces the land below, the greenery is nearly full and the fresh-cut pastures are welcoming in their lighter green abundance. It promises to be an excellent country day. I […]

May 20, 2021 Vic Socotra

We’ve Seen Better Days…

Editor’s Note: There was a question in the morning meeting about where to go in the weekly content production directive. The guy down by the Loading Dock chose not to engage in the end game discussion. He had been muttering about the vulnerability of the U.S. power grid, demonstrated by the Colonial pipeline shutdown. Unfortunately, […]

May 19, 2021 Vic Socotra

Letters of Marque

We could have used a Letter of Marque to deal with the Colonial pipeline hack attack. Of course, I am not a nation state, though I do have a certain undocumented leaning in that direction. What is such a letter? Essentially, it is authorization to hire a pirate to punish people who screw with you. […]