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June 10, 2020 Vic Socotra

Farm Sounds

There is a fair but tolerable level of gunfire here at the farm in all the seasons to augment the sound of tractors and the occasional rumble of livestock truck out on the county road. I am happy to join in the shooting when my mood is right. An exception was last Friday- or very […]

June 8, 2020 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Snake Plissken and the Progressive Vision of America

Socrates argued it was his duty to remain in prison because he had a contract with the city. This idea, more fully flushed out by Hobbes and Rousseau, came to be termed the social contract. Simply stated, there exists a de facto contract between the individual and the government and that contract forms the basis […]

June 7, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Plague Chronicle Notes — Part XXI — Clockworks

Antique German clockwork tin toy This plague has resurfaced age old, hard questions regarding public behaviors like wearing masks: “Should we via our governments impose these behaviors? If so, are we denying them moral choice and free will? Thus denied free will, does he cease being a man? Isn’t life sustained by the grinding opposition […]

June 6, 2020 Vic Socotra

Riot Generation

Washington DC, 1970 The news is babbling abut today being the biggest of the protests against…well, I am not quite sure. I think it was about Mr. Floyd’s death at the hands of the police in Minneapolis. The imagery was horrific, and a dozen or more citizens have died in the rioting that followed peaceful […]

June 5, 2020 Vic Socotra

D-Day and Midway

Hey. With everything else going on in this strange time, the events of the middle distance of history got obscured. Plague and intrigue. Hysterial politics and killer wasps. With all that to occupy our limited attention span, I think it is appropriate to make the effort to remember, even as some are calling for the […]

June 4, 2020 Vic Socotra

Arrias: John Adams, Isaac Newton and the Road Warrior

There are any number of wars going on around the planet. But, in truth, none represents an existential threat to America. Nor does the Wuhan virus. Both China and Russia represent real threats, as both have large arsenals of nuclear weapons. But, the likelihood that one or the other will actually destroy the US with […]

June 3, 2020 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Telework

Kryptos – Just something else for pigeons to shit on in Langley, or is it? In our current age of COVID-19, telework is all the rage. I myself love it, since otherwise I would be driving a minimum of 100 miles round-trip every fucking day to work and back, scare shitless most of the time, […]

June 1, 2020 Vic Socotra

PointLoma: Déjà vu All Over Again

Editor’s Note: Point Loma chimes in with an appreciation of the weekend madness. I have lived 1968 once already. It is a pity we seem to be doing it again. As I recall, it wasn’t that good the first time. – Vic Washington DC, Burning I don’t know about you, but this feels so…1968. Samuel […]

May 31, 2020 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Get Along

So, things have been quiet and wet and chilly and gray these past few months. The color of the sky seemed to fit the strange events on the ground almost perfectly. We transition to something else tomorrow- secret plague code 1A, or 2.0, or whatever our strange Governor is calling it. He is eager to […]