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October 10, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Foam Moutherz

Editor’s Note: The northernmost strands of hurricane Beta are wafting gently through this part of the Old Dominion. The wonderful weather that preceded the clouds and deceptive gentle rain had people out and about, almost like normal here in the rural hinterland, which naturally disdains excessive declaration from our state’s governor. I mentioned the one […]

October 9, 2020 Vic Socotra

Sky Day

(No, not my picture, though it is some of the same AT-6/SNJ/T-6 antiques that flew over the farm and call the regional airport home. They are magnificent!) We are still emerging from the cocoon of cloud that accompanied the gray uncertainty of the big sickness all the way from Spring to Fall. The moist air […]

October 8, 2020 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Once Upon a Time

Editor’s Note: In keeping with the gentle and respectful media storm surrounding the election cyclone, I will avoid comment on the VP debate last night. or now, anyway. Our pal Point Loma felt the same way, and wrote an account that is both real and surreal. It seems to be about a place- a country- […]

October 7, 2020 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: COVID!!!

The crisis of the week- allegedly a real one- has knocked the crisis-a-day campaign off kilter. The President popped positive for the dread disease, spent a weekend at Walter Reed, and is back at work today. That is inconvenient for the narrative, and there is some scrambling in the background to make the narrative of […]

October 6, 2020 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Bill of Rights

Editor’s Note- As you know, Socotra LLC made a decision on covering the interesting rebellion here in our beloved America. In order to do so, I have taken a light-hearted approach to the coming chaos. There is a shared presumption of what may be coming. Arrias dipped into the well of ancient tales yesterday. He […]

October 5, 2020 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Aesop and Government

Editor’s Note: We are starting the new week with some thoughts onconstitutional issues. Arrias this morning, Point Loma tomorrow. Notice how COVID has knocked everything else off the charts since last Friday? It almost makes one think…oh, never mind. – Vic Aesop and Government Aesop was born a bit more than 600 years before Christ, […]

October 4, 2020 Vic Socotra

Things That Go Without Comment

Yesterday we took a look at something written in 2001 about some things that happened in 1991 or so. It was a hoot to look back and see what we we thought was important then, and the things that go without comment these days. The things included major social issues played out in an afternoon […]

October 3, 2020 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 […]

October 2, 2020 Vic Socotra

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 […]

October 1, 2020 Vic Socotra

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 […]