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September 25, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Left Behind

Editor’s Note: Gentle Readers, the skies above this week have changed from the clear and lovely skies welcoming the change of season to something grayer. Below the clouds there was inspiration, captured by neighbor Matt: Thoughts of what these aircraft and pilots confronted is more in keeping with Marlow’s recent musings on the situation that […]

September 23, 2020 Vic Socotra

The Games Go On

This is a view of the back pastures at Refuge Farm yesterday afternoon. It was a magnificent day, Autumn greeting us with a gentle cool wind, cloudless blue skies, and our buzzards wheeling majestically in the heavens above. Our editorial staff wanted to roll with a piece from Marlow that incorporates some of the deep […]

September 22, 2020 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Forrest Has Left the Building…

Editor’s Note: The passing of an influential and sometimes inspiring Supreme Court Justice has already had a striking impact on our electoral process. It has also revealed some interesting deficiencies in our educational process. For example, the notion that we are a “democracy” seems to be widespread. This logically stems from the failure of our […]

September 21, 2020 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Notorious

Here’s a question: at the next US Olympics Trials will people who were born male, but who identify as female, be allowed to compete as females? There are now people who were born male but who identify as female, who are competing in various female college athletic programs. This is being defended by those who […]

September 19, 2020 Vic Socotra

The Field Marshal’s Daughter, Part 2

Author’s Note: Tough night. I forgot to take the evening dose of medication, which was subsumed by the newest news of the day. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg took leave of this life sometime during the afternoon, word being passed as the day waned in darkness. This will add more complexity to the already […]

September 19, 2020 Vic Socotra

The Field Marshal’s Daughter, A Life of Lies

Author’s Note: I have been wrestling with a treatment of the extraordinary career and legacy of departed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. My sentiment about the Court has always been tempered by the adherence to the founding documents across centuries of change. Though not intended, the composition of the Bench has been a thing […]

September 18, 2020 Vic Socotra

The Field Marshall’s Daughter

Author’s Note: It has been an interesting year for us all. I discovered a button on the iPad that revealed “unread” messages. There were a surprising number of them, mostly covering the period of early February of this strange year. I must have missed a couple weeks as the COVID excitement was just hitting its […]

September 18, 2020 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Mob Rule

Point Loma: Mob Rule Editor’s Note: As many of you unfortunately are aware, I have been doing a weekly account of events in our amazing year of 2020. It has been quite a ride. I hope you can you tune these things out, as I often want to do. I have pals though who are […]

September 18, 2020 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Nobels, Fires and Flames!

Morning, fellow citizens! Another day surfing down the roiling cascade of information, leading to something some pundits say is really important. I forget what that is. The outlines of it are there, certainly. One of the headlines blared this morning that the Center for Disease Control, the Government agency responsible for dealing with epidemics, is […]

September 16, 2020 Vic Socotra

Rest In Peace, Rich Gragg

Sad news, friends. CDR Richard Gragg, USN-Ret., ended his gallant fight against cancer yesterday. His battle was tough and long. His was the second name posted on the Naval Intelligence Professionals Binnacle list in 2016. Rich was a shipmate from USS Midway days. A bit more about that shortly. He had a successful career in […]