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August 27, 2019 Vic Socotra

Island Times: Strange Days: 2020 Presidential Debates Phase II

One afternoon last week after morning eye surgery, I reclined quietly in a leather chair with my eyes closed in our darkened living room. I snoozed off and on. Drifting about I heard the following monologue. These are strange days indeed. Moderator: Good evening. Tonight is the first installment of the second phase of the […]

August 21, 2019 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: On the Beach

In the olden days, this was the month to raise money back in the home district, take a junket, or just go to the beach. Some things do not change. I wish I was at the beach, though confess that the view of the pastures is pretty cool now that the hydrangea has been cut […]

August 20, 2019 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Windy

Gentle Readers, this is a special missive from one of the Great Americans. – Vic Windy, The Table of Knowledge, and the End of an Era Well, my personal era, at least. The famous “they” say that the two happiest days of a boat owners’ life are the day that he buys the boat, and […]

August 19, 2019 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Conflict with China

There’s a lot of talk about Hong Kong. As I write this the protests continue. And as I write this people are debating what if anything the US (and President Trump) should do about the PRC’s actions. It has generated commentary that US actions could lead to a military confrontation with Beijing. Hmmm… A few […]

August 19, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Great Plains

After last week’s piece on road-earth revelations these words about the Great Plains folks I met along the way surfaced. It was a strong, lonely place of dreamers The plains weren’t kindly to tyrants or schemers There were no fake patriotic wreaths Desperation wasn’t part of the air they breathed At meal tables was equality […]

August 15, 2019 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: The Miasma of August

The heat and humidity linger as September looms, but there was actually a hint of chill in the air when the roosters next door started to get going a little before five. I like it. There is no possible way to roll over and tap the rooster on the head and go back to sleep. […]

August 15, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: ​Road Nickname

NDN (pronounced En Dee En) was a short-lived road nickname that was bestowed upon me during one of my earliest, long distance, two-wheeling trips as I motorcycled the back roads as a light brown buffalo man in black leather in the dustier regions of the great plains. Given to me in Kansas, it stood for […]

August 13, 2019 Vic Socotra

Hoosier AMC Bill Reddig Rally 2019

No one does cars like the Hoosiers, nor celebrates the astonishing contraptions that put us on the road to the elegance of the Cords and Auburns that invested the cornfields of the great heartland with an Art Deco elegance. A lot of folks think of Detroit as the Motor City. Maybe it was the buckle […]

August 10, 2019 Vic Socotra

Do Something

I had a pretty good sleep here at Refuge Farm. It is quiet. No mob out front screaming anything. I am determined not to do anything that will get me doxxed…well, at least nothing I am doing currently. Apparently life is an open book now, no and since being accused is the same as being […]

August 10, 2019 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Consequences and Costs

Everyone is worried, concerned that society is tearing itself apart, split by social and cultural differences that appear impossible to bridge. What’s the real problem? And is there, if not a ready solution, a path ahead that might bring us to some solution? Beginning in the late 1800s political free-thinkers and academicians sought to change […]