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February 13, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Black is Back

Gentle readers, I wrote this parody upon reading on February 12th the Chinese Communist Party’s poor imitation of Roseanne Roseanne-a-dana’s “Nevermind” regarding their previously announced, decreasing numbers of Wuhan Flu infections and deaths were no longer operative and that these numbers had in fact exploded upwards, almost geometrically, after the Party’s contrived “All is Well” […]

February 11, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: There are strange things happenin’ in DC

There are strange things happenin’ in DC After a wild, rocking and rolling, opening six weeks to 2020, here’s an old timey look back. – Marlow Oh, we hear cable TV news people say They are on the case in a righteous way There are strange things happenin’ in DC everyday Oh, that last panel’s […]

January 7, 2020 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Special Terror Edition

So, we are back, if we ever left, and the turnkeys who run the asylum here by the Potomac are back, with impeachment to roll out on the Hill at mid-week. Of course, given the lively nature of attempting to overthrow the US Government, there are been a lot of changes. 40 years ago I […]

January 7, 2020 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: The Right Stuff

Gene Kranz, NASA Mission Control Flight Director How would you like to get this ass-chewing? “Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we […]

January 5, 2020 Vic Socotra

Arrian: Iranian Escalation

There’s a strange fascination in warfare with the idea of killing the enemy’s leader. We often hear talk that: “if General X” (Sultan/Pharoah/King – pick you character in history) was killed, the war would end (or never take place). The favorite such figure is Hitler; if only he’d been killed, the war would never have […]

December 31, 2019 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Special 2020 Edition

This is a big one. I was trying to figure out the concept of blogging, those 20 years ago with the dread Y2K event coming that would do all sorts of terrible things. They didn’t, but a whole lot of other things did. Everyone is doing the events of 2019 in list and retrospectives. I […]

December 30, 2019 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: On Writing [1]

Charles Krauthammer Some people transcend time and space – here’s one. It is a little around a year and a half from his passing, which still is a national tragedy. I miss this man and his common sense genius greatly. He was such a fixture on Fox News and in our lives. I always made […]

December 29, 2019 Vic Socotra

Arrian: Xi Jinping and Titus Livy

The philosopher David Hume wrote that: “Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what […]

December 27, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: My Brother in Arms

27 December 2019 Author’s Note:This was penned by a friend, a fellow motorcycle rider and former USMC F4 pilot during the Vietnam era who flew many of the aerial scenes in the movie The Great Santini. Augustus Fitch has appeared under fictional aliases in my former no-shit two wheeled sea stories. – Marlow Wednesday, March […]

December 25, 2019 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Roll On

This is a Christmas Story, I promise… So why am I, a quasi-Naval Aviator and Intel professional writing about trucking? The writer’s muse is a horny bitch without mercy, and she strikes without warning. I am at her bidding, so here goes… Driving big trucks is a lot of fun. I got my start when […]

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