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April 29, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Eat It and Like It

Let me briefly interject into my ongoing, but hopefully soon to end, unMuellering to say that Easter Sunday morning’s musing about my early years were spiced by W’s surprise provision of Asian 5-spice bacon (an unredacted recipe is below). We learned how to make this courtesy of our southernmost friend Rose C, who we suspect […]

April 28, 2019 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Korea, Mueller and National Security

The majority opinion seemed to be, in the wake of the last summit between North Korea and the US, that the summit was a failure. As there was no agreement, I suppose that’s an accurate, if limited, assessment. If the whole point of the summit was to produce an agreement, no matter what that agreement […]

April 26, 2019 Vic Socotra

ANZAC Day

This is a special day, and you may or may not be aware of the significance of the holiday remembering the men of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who were ordered to assault what Winston Churchill called “The soft underbelly” of Europe at Gallipoli. It wasn’t. My son marched on this day in […]

April 24, 2019 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Internal Bubbles

Well, it is actually a quiet week in the swamp. Many of the Creatures are out in the hustings, addressing the great inequalities of a society whose largesse is the greatest in the history of this pesky species. With the issuance of the Mueller Report, one might expect that lane of hysteria would quiet, but […]

April 23, 2019 Vic Socotra

Stupid Plastic Shoes Pt.2

The Office of Strategic Information: Part Two of the Post 9-11 Saga “Stupid Plastic Shoes” “The Office of Strategic Influence, or OSI, was a department created by DoD in October 30, 2001, to support the Global War on Terror through coordinated Psychological Operations- PSYOPS- at target countries around the world. OSI was prohibited from operations […]

April 22, 2019 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Metaphors?

A good friend – a keen observer of the human condition – asked the other day if the Notre Dame fire is a metaphor for the destruction of the Western World? There’s an instant recoil from that suggestion; of course things will be okay! Then you start to think about all the negative news of […]

April 21, 2019 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: UnMuellering

Gentle Readers, given the events of last week, Marlow has struck out in an adventure that includes collusion, of a sort, one generation reflecting change against the one that give them life. Balancing the joy of a crisp morning and full light creeping up the pastures, I gave a prayer of thanks for the things […]

April 19, 2019 Vic Socotra

The Easter Bunny

I was going to tell you about the ill-fated and brief trajectory of the Office of Strategic Influence in 2002, a wild hallucination that came as close to getting my name in the pages of the Washington Post as I pray I will ever be. They say there are a lot of Swamp Dwellers preparing […]

April 18, 2019 Vic Socotra

Stupid Plastic Shoes

(Some Attorney General or another. Apparently he had a press conference this morning). Editor’s Note:As you might have heard, there was a paroxysm of emotion surrounding the issuance of a report authored by that Mueller fellow, which after more than two years of diligent investigation has shown nothing regarding coordination on the 2016 election between […]

April 17, 2019 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Is Paris Burning?

Events overseas galvanized the world this week as the famed Cathedral of Notre Dame burned. It was like the end of the World War Two movie when the Germans wanted to know if the city was in flames as they fell back in the face of Patton’s advance. Thankfully, the conflagration was not as destructive […]