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August 9, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Bitter Harvest of Bare Branches

The past week in America saw three unprovoked spasms of public mass violence in Gilroy CA, El Paso TX and Dayton OH. The perps were young single males. While violent crime is hardly the preserve of unmarried men, statistical evidence across the world shows a disproportionate amount of crimes are committed by this group. Societies […]

August 7, 2019 Vic Socotra

Swam Postcard: Deranged Shooters and August Vacation

It has cooled off a bit at Refuge Farm, and it is almost enough to make us miss the raisin and sultry heat of the mid-summer. Soon enough September will be on us, and we will miss it. There are some things we will not. That includes two troubled young men who ran amok in […]

August 6, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: DC Crazy

The utter madness of our daily national politics caused me to pause during the month just past to consider the local crazy in which I live and that I enjoy. Late last week I heard a Bob Dylan song on a cable TV music channel that lead me in a different direction. Fifty four summers […]

August 1, 2019 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Debates and De Candidates and DNI

Screen Shot 2019-07-31 at 11.21.55 AM.png I watched the debates last night as a matter of civic duty. The most impressive aspect for me was the restoration of the downtown Fox Theater, a moving picture palace of a different age. As a sometimes Detroit, I used to go by the place in the years after […]

July 30, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Three Words

Author’s Note: Due to my advanced age, I am late in detecting several ripples in the American media space-time fabric. They involve words that I thought I understood but apparently did not. Here are three. – Marlow Squad Being aware of modern young uns approach to language, I first thought it might be the past […]

July 30, 2019 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Middle Ground?

As I drove across East Texas I found myself in need of a change of pace and turned on the radio and listened to a talk “show.” The discussion pinged around on several different subjects but kept circling back to the rift between the major political factions and what must be done to bring them […]

July 25, 2019 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Race for the Beach

I am at the farm, watching the House hearings on the Mueller report. I should have stayed in bed. On the other and more immediate hand, two buzzards were perched on the Panzer roof when I rose. I have to say a single round of 9mm discharged into the ground seemed to get their attention […]

July 22, 2019 Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Apollo 11 – As Time Goes By

If you were alive at the time, where were you when this happened? Lots of stuff going on at the time – the hangover from the race riots following the assassinations of MLK and RFK, Nixon’s election, stagflation, and the Viet Nam War’s nightly body counts made for a confusing and kaleidoscopic backdrop. Here was […]

July 21, 2019 Vic Socotra

Arrias: The US Moon Landing

Some – amazing – friends of mine and I were in the small town of Mesilla, New Mexico last week killing a few hours; in one little store a young woman told us about the pottery they were selling, all of which had been made by Navajo Indians from around the state. As she talked […]

July 20, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Savannah Crazy 1700 Hours Friday Evening

Alice: I don’t want to go among mad people Cat: Oh, you can’t help that. We’re all mad here . . . I’m mad. You’re mad. Alice: How do you know I’m mad? Cat: You must be, or you wouldn’t have come here. ​from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland BEWARE. Savannah is a mad city […]