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March 12, 2021 Vic Socotra

Marlow: Members of a Cult

Editor’s Note: It appears we have been victorious in the battle against the dread COVID. The President read a nice speech summarizing the triumph of his last month or so in office, and we may be able to gather in small family groups by the 4th of July, which is a holiday that apparently may […]

March 11, 2021 Vic Socotra

Weather Report First Edition 2021

I know, I am as startled as you about all the amazing things going on around us. I got a suggestion that the continued use of the term “Swamp Postcard” didn’t actually convey what is going on within and emanating from our Nation’s Capital. I had to agree. It has been a year of curious […]

March 10, 2021 Vic Socotra

Marlow: Take Trois re Socotra House Authors

Editor’s Note: There is an Author’s Circle meeting Sunday mornings, quite apart from the irritating Editorial Board, which permits participation by the increasingly irritating Compliance Branch. The Sunday Session is suitably timed for those who have attended holy services, or staggered back from brunch. There is one who claims to be an early riser and […]

March 10, 2021 Vic Socotra

SARS and SARS Jr.

So, in the course of an accidental career, I was briefly attached to the staff of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. It was an odd thing for a career intelligence guy, and quite interesting. Secretary Thompson was interested in what the well-manicured briefer from the three-letter-agency had to tell him […]

March 9, 2021 Vic Socotra

Accidentally Confronting Public Health

(Former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson). We have shared an interesting year, haven’t we? There is more to it than what we are told, of course, and there are several large moving components to the madness. One of the latest new wrinkles is an old one, and brings back memories. You might be interested in a […]

March 8, 2021 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Mob Rule

Editor’s Note: Arrias helps the Socotra House Staff limp from the sadness of the loss of a good friend and back to the surreal world in which we (temporarily) reside. There are large things in motion in the wide world. Royal squabbles on Oprah is one for the morning. The COVID extravaganza, of course, and […]

March 6, 2021 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Flag at Half Staff

At Refuge Farm there was the usual grudging acceptance of the return of the sun to the gently rolling hills of Virginia’s Piedmont. It is still cold, though they say the tenuous clouds will burn off later. Other things won’t. I was filled with unease. ‘Jiffy’ sent the warning yesterday. Hospital care was not up […]

March 5, 2021 Vic Socotra

Who Brings the Donuts on Monday?

The dawn was brilliant, the only way to describe it. Our intense blue sky was populated with puffy white wisps of the alternative. They tell us the brisk chill air is from that renegade jet steam which will be with us for a week, a cousin to the one that paralyzed us last month. But […]

March 4, 2021 Vic Socotra

Editorial Notes & Island TImes: “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life”

Letter to the Editor: So, in your shallow attempt at compliance with Government edicts, you have ignored the growing hard of ‘renewable’ energy problems. You are deliberately ignoring the tyranny of Chinese rare-earth extraction using children and virtual slaves in Uighar minority areas. Then, the destruction of worn-out windmill blades and solar panels that cannot […]

March 3, 2021 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Mostly Peaceful Staff Meeting

The Staff Meeting at Socotra House Publications was mostly peaceful this morning. It was a matter of great relief and a demonstration of solidarity among virtually all the editorial personnel. We recognize and applaud the signs displayed by some members of the formerly indigent members of the newly expanded Compliance Department. Given social fluidity, we […]

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