Author: Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: The Great Reawakening

So, I may not be the most alert sailor at the helm of his little ship, but this is a big week. In many of the states, the Governors are reducing civic restrictions to ensure the plague is held at bay. Life during the crisis down at the farm is essentially unchanged since the panic […]

Point Loma: New Normal

Editor’s note: People are chasing the astonishing amount of newly printed money flying about. Some perfectly reasonable people have tried to find a path forward through the current dislocation. This is Point Loma’s take. -Vic Taking Things off the Table – and The New Normal Taking things off the table is another way of stating […]

Arrias: Liberty Valance and Mike Flynn

Shakespeare observed: “the truth will out.” That may or may not always be true, but in the case of LTG Mike Flynn it seems that the truth is finally seeing the light of day. In a free society the mechanism central to that process is a free press (in all its forms – print, TV, […]

Life & Island Times: Plague Chronicle Notes — Part XIV — Firing Squad

​We still don’t know, but yesterday’s reported early testing results of promising therapeutics say we have hope. Sometime after we entered the plague’s third phase, I wondered why I felt so little anger during the second phase? What I’d seen, heard and read was unbearably horrid. Maybe my weariness of it was a kind of […]

Life & Island Times: Commies Tell Lies

Editor’s Note: Here is the latest. I don’t know how you are doing- the farm is lively, since the animals don’t seem to notice anything except quiet roadways. Marlow is doing yeoman’s work in documenting the strange global outbreak that has affected us all. Management claims the installments will be gathered up as a book […]

Arrias: Quo Vadis, Kim?

“Plans are nothing, planning is everything.” – General Eisenhower You may have missed it, but something – or someone – is missing in North Korea. Specifically, Kim Jong Un, North Korean despot, hereditary absolute ruler, and would be god-king hasn’t been seen for quite some time; speculation is that he’s either dead or in a […]

Point Loma: Weight of Command

“Captain, USN, Departing.” Much ballyhoo has been made about the case of Captain Bret Crozier, skipper of the TR, and his stand on taking care of his crew, however painted quixotically it has been. I never, ever thought that there would be a SECNAV dumber than Ray Maybus, but then along came Modly. As Bugs […]