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November 6, 2019 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Impeachment & Cartels

Things are so loony up here that I felt a little information shocked. Or maybe it was the time change last weekend. This one wiped me out for some reason, so the news from Mexico really made me sit up when I first heard it.. Last week, the authorities rounded up the son of drug […]

November 4, 2019 Vic Socotra

Arrian: Elevators, Bureaucrats and Great Power Confrontation

Editor’s Note, 04 November 2019: this is timely and goes in front of the roll-out of the Mac Showers biography trilogy which has slipped to tomorrow. – Vic . Author’s Note: Several long talks with a couple of old friends (Navy and Marine) this week – we are much worse than it looks I’m afraid… […]

November 3, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: Ada’s War

Editor’s Note: Having recovered part three of the Mac Showers biography, I will send it along as an attachment tomorrow. There is more I intend to inflict on you, notably the connection between the passing of my folks, and the real compassion and mentorship that marked the last career Mac invented. More after Ada’s war […]

November 2, 2019 Vic Socotra

Japan-gazer Special — Factoids and Happenings, Summer-Fall 2019

(1) 10 September …. Japan Environment Ministry said the only option available to dispose of treated radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is to release it into the Pacific Ocean …. The government will continue to have careful discussions on the matter …. Tokyo Electric Power Company is considering how to […]

November 2, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Halloween

Wassup, witches? The tricksters didn’t start to show at our front door last night until more than a quarter of the city’s official 6-8PM period has passed. Then it was like repeated tsunamis hitting the steps to our front porch. It was glorious with the timid, the downright scared, the bold, the grabby, and the […]

November 1, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Fall, Fallen, Fell

Editor’s Note: Soaking, deep penetrating chill rain in Virginia this morning. The squashed raccoon on the road was eaten by our congress of vultures. A load of crap was moved to the garage yesterday, a triumph, and oh, by the way…you might have heard something about the World Series… – Vic Author’s Note: And now […]

November 1, 2019 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Fantasy Fest

If you have ever lived or worked in Key West, Fantasy Fest is a rite of passage. It is like the six-week period of Spring Break – I called that the ritual trashing of the city, concentrated into a week-long orgy of craziness, culminating in a final evening of absolute madness – the parade. Come […]

October 30, 2019 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: What the Hell Next?

I dunno either. I am glad to be living at Refuge Farm. The big deal down here was the raccoon that got squashed out on the County road, and the convention of turkey buzzards that convened to supervise the disposition of the remains. Actually, (and you know that metaphors come to me with ironic difficulty), […]

October 30, 2019 Vic Socotra

Arrian: Half Pay

During the previous administration a number of retired senior officers received public scorn for making disparaging remarks about President Obama. Many in the press commented that not only were the remarks inappropriate, but that under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) they might be charged. Seeming to confirm that position, last February the Supreme […]

October 26, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Jer-ree

Author’s note: W and I have been on the road as well as dealing with some family issues, hence the Coastal Empire’s brief hiatus. Now let’s go back in time for another short tale from my migratory construction worker days. -Marlow JR, or Jer-ree as a few fellow US Army types called him, was injured […]