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October 30, 2017 Vic Socotra

Cocktails With The Admiral

It was a great weekend for sports- if you ignored the kneeling thing, and Major League Baseball provided some amazing class in the Dodgers-Astors World Series. I didn’t pay much attention to football it was pelting chill rain here- except the poor bedraggled Deadskins- since I decided to get serious about completing a project I […]

October 29, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Peace Train ’17

Jimmah Carter — 93 years old, tanned, rested, bags packed, new passport in hand and ready to head to Pyongyang. By the way, Rosalin thinks the Russians stole the election from Hillary, while Jimmah does not. (Image courtesy of Dustin Chambers of the NYT) Endless third-rate presidential political campaigning, growing need for better access to […]

October 29, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: Lattes for Peace

Last week, the acting Under Secretary of the Navy suggested the nation’s fleet wouldn’t reach its target of 355 ships until after 2050, more than 30 years from now. Since our ships (except aircraft carriers) are designed to last about 35 years, that means, with the exception of just three aircraft carriers, all those ships […]

October 27, 2017 Vic Socotra

Secrets

(Heather and Liz-S enjoy the Willow reunion at Front Page). I am really agitated at the moment. I had composed a nice story that combined a Front Page reunion of Willow regulars, the DARPA office party going on around the bar, that Agency’s contribution to Amazon’s latest innovative technology that will put cameras in all […]

October 27, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Westsiders

I had not yet found a new job by the next Saturday night, when the A&P’s office phone rang. Gene picked it, listened and asked only one question before hanging up. He called out to me at the registers, “Marlow, clock out and go home. NOW! There’s trouble at your place. Ride your motorcyle out […]

October 26, 2017 Vic Socotra

Postcard from the Swamp #20

Well, you can’t say this hasn’t been an interesting week in the fetid marsh along the Potomac we call the Capital of the Free World. Of course, we have been saying that for nearly a year now. After throwing mud on all things Russia and dark mutterings about alleged collusion, there are some strings that […]

October 26, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Battle Hymn

Author’s Note: Yesterday’s decalarations by two Senators in the halls of Congress and the well of the Senate certainly looked like the opening salvos of a civil war. If so, the country needs a battle hymn. Or a crazy train. – Marlow Trump’s words reveal the crazy of the theories of Freud He rails about […]

October 25, 2017 Vic Socotra

Japan-Gazer Update

平成29年１０月25日 = (25 OCT 2017) Japan-Gazer Update – – – – – = This week’s poem: OJT Folks do things the hard way Their experience is earned Same lessons in their history Books unread and unlearned https://carllafong.blogspot.jp/ – – – – – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday (23 OCT) congratulated Prime Minister Shinzo Abe […]

October 25, 2017 Vic Socotra

Postcard from the Swamp #19

Well, you can’t say this hasn’t been an interesting week in the fetid marsh along the Potomac we call the Capital of the Free World. Of course, we have been saying that for nearly a year now. After throwing mud on all things Russia and dark mutterings about alleged collusion, there are some strings that […]