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February 18, 2018 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Life Before The Big War

Editor’s Note: this is a back-to-back for Coastal Empire this week. I am hoping the kitchen upgrade here at Big Pink may be complete soon. Socotra LLC is proud to have talented team of content providers who step up to the vital mission of providing more glib words to the Web. To further that end, […]

February 15, 2018 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Love and War

“Two things greater than all things are,” wrote Rudyard Kipling: “The first is Love and the second War.” Romance and conflict are intimately bound together. Long ago Love started one War when one army chased their king’s Helen in Greek mythology. Love and War are the two extremes of our human experience. Perhaps it’s true […]

February 14, 2018 Vic Socotra

Post Card From the Swamp #33

Well, I don’t know quite what to think. Cupid appears to be in the Witness Protection Program. I send these postcards on Wednesday, just as the mainstream Swampsters are getting their narratives straight for the week. There is that nasty business in the White House that has dragged the Chief of Staff into a conflict […]

February 12, 2018 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: That Time of Year

It’s that time of year back up in my former northern Virginia digs along the Potomac River. No, not tax time nor Valentine’s. No, it is now that groups of raptors will be wintering over out in the treed areas near suburban and urban developments. I first noticed these winter snowbirds when I was living […]

February 12, 2018 Vic Socotra

Arrias: North Korea and the Berlin Olympics

Editor’s Note: As a winter sports enthusiast from way back, I discovered that coverage of the current Winter Games was not as visible as it had been in decades past. Arrias adds content and context to the 2018 Games….BTW, if you haven’t, “The Boys in the Boat” is one of the better books I have […]

February 9, 2018 Vic Socotra

The Ice Age

OK, OK. I am not going to beat the whole thing to death. It has been painful. Not to mention expensive. Oh, there are at least two things going on. The knuckleheads downtown finally passed another Continuing Resolution about the same time my aging body decided to be awake, whether I liked it or not. […]

February 7, 2018 Vic Socotra

Post Card From the Swamp #32

It has been another one of those weeks- this dizzying pace of events sweeps all before it. The House Intelligence Panel issued a memorandum claiming to line out exactly what was provided to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to justify a secret warrant to monitor the communications of Mr. Carter Page, who had left his […]

February 5, 2018 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Doom? Maybe Not

We’re doomed, if you listen to some folks. They may be right. There certainly are things going on that give you pause. But perhaps they’re miss-interpreting a few things. The big stories this week were the President’s State of the Union address, the release of the memo from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, […]

February 2, 2018 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Real Estate Man

After watching the State of the Union speech and the loyal opposition’s response, I was reminded of one of the central truths of salesmanship and how each side chose to follow it. I am talking about the real estate salesman’s motivational ABC dictum — Always Be Closing. There are two types of closes — hard, […]