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July 21, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Stop Us Before We Innovate Again

Editor’s Note: Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novel was created from a series of eight short stories published in Astounding Magazine between May 1942 and January 1950. It was heady stuff. I found them in a box of science fiction magazines at rummage sale at the Unitarian Church on Woodward Avenue in suburban Detroit where pastor Bob […]

July 19, 2017 Vic Socotra

Postcard From The Swamp #7

Swamp Postcard Yep- it is Wednesday again, and time to update the postcard from The Swamp, where the Deep State appears to have successfully prevented anyone from doing anything to lower the water level. If anything, it seems to be getting deeper…and I don’t mean that as a metaphor. If anyone had set out to […]

July 18, 2017 Vic Socotra

So It Goes

I have been a little slow off the mark the last couple weeks- I know many have noted it and I feel bad. I have been doing this morning blogging thing now for nearly twenty years, and the fodder of of chaos, national and international, in the government and out of it, has been entertaining […]

July 17, 2017 Vic Socotra

Mad Anthony

So, this is what retirement looks like? I looked at myself in the mirror this morning and came away a bit mad at the tousled gray hair. Not mad at myself, or not completely, but at what has become a new reality. Then retreated to the comfort of the comforter and read the morning incoming […]

July 17, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Too Much Time On My Hands

Author’s note: Given the multiple “modern day presidential” tweetapaloozas we have been recently gifted with, today’s piece wrote itself. With deepest apologies to Styx. – Marlow Sittin’ on a White House potty stool Tweetin’ like a damn fool Got the three AM Twitter blues I’ve given up hope for these Republican dopes Senate votes’re only […]

July 16, 2017 Vic Socotra

A ROUND FOR MY FRIENDS

Editor’s note: this is a re-post of a 1979 article based on a special request from a distinguished colleague who remembers when this stuff was actually true. If you can’t see the intrinsic respect in this for the people of the Republic of the Philippines, I failed to convey exactly how close and intimate our […]

July 15, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: To Serve Man

I have been reading several millennial-written alt-newspaper articles that literally gush over the benefits of the impending tsunamis of driver less short term rental and taxi vehicles that will crash over us during the next ten years. They cite things like less pollution, global chilling, a 5% increase ($1 trillion) in freed up annual disposable […]

July 13, 2017 Vic Socotra

No Night to Get Cute

Editor’s Note: Yeah, I know this is basically recycled, but I am only now coming to grips with the idea that the decade of Willow is well and truly past. There was a sense of family there, and I will always miss it. I had an interesting chat on Monday with one of the major […]

July 13, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Hunt Them All Down

Yet another trio of senseless gang related murders occurred just after Savannah’s July 4th celebrations were winding down a bit after midnight on the 5th. Among the dead were two of the three gang member killers and a well liked local service industry worker who was an innocent bystander. The targets of this gangland slaying […]