Author: Vic Socotra

Life After Wartime

Author’s Note: It is tempting to keep swimming deep in the swamp. This has been a remarkable week in the history of the mire; reeling from the outflow from debates, lurching through a Supreme Court nomination and culminating with the President and First Lady testing positive for the vile epidemic of COVID19. We told you […]

New News, Old Clothes

Lot of zeroes in the news this morning. “O”s and numerical oblong circles. If we did it in crisper style, it would be 10/02/2020. Not a great surprise, I suppose, but I was still mulling the nomination to the High Court, and the raucous argument we accepted as a debate this week. I thought things […]

Point Loma: All American Favorites

Editor’s Note: This is from Point Loma on his sense of today’s world. There are a couple “F-bombs,” contained, so beware. He tells me his goal is to convey the actual language spoken by the people who lived the experience. I enjoy his stories because they feel like I had just walked down a long […]

Happy New Year!

OK, OK, sorry to drop into the old world. Today is the 30th of September, and according to the accounting system used by your Federal Government, the fiscal year ends tonight at midnight, and a wild new year of digital excitement begins. I think that means we will be on what is called a “Continuing […]

After Midnight

The cavalcade of political emotion continues its inexorable march across our perceptions. Yesterday, it was shrieking about the President’s taxes, and the religious extremism of the latest nominee to the Supreme Court. We won’t know the answer to the debate question until after midnight, though the script is being written in advnce to ensure accuracy. […]

Another Car on the Train

This is a great week coming up! Swimming today, Weds and Friday to keep my energy for the thrills to come! I got an extra bag of popcorn out of the pantry in case anything breaking happens. There are a lot of possibilities. The themes for the big election now have a place to reverberate […]

Arrias: Losing Our Souls – For the Moment

Editor’s Note: This is a piece from Arrias on the nature of life, and some of the real and emotional issues that come with it. We are in a transitional place in our society. This is an example of why it is so profound. In it, I discovered I was an Aristotilian. Arrias approaches from […]

Re-Fi on Wi-Fi

Morning, All! If, like me, you are struggling with what is to come from the circus surrounding our election, you may have thought about what to do with your money. I did the logical thing. I gave up. I have no idea what is in the 401K stockpile, or whether I should ask my broker- […]

Point Loma: Snake Farm

Editor’s Note: Yesterday, we did a run of Marlow’s view of the current travails in the Republic we served. Today, the sky is gray. The big aerial parade over Washington has been postponed again due to weather. They hope to launch again tomorrow. We will see. In a curious way, the airshow seems to presage […]

Swamp Postcard: The Notorious RBG

So, the rioting and occupation of the White House were mostly postponed on the politics surrounding the passing of a historic Supreme Court Justice. Except for the two police officers shot in localized “protests” against a grand jury decision not to try three officers for the “no knock” shooting of Breonna Taylor. Except, as everything […]