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November 9, 2016 Vic Socotra

No Such Thing

Editor’s Note: This is a historic day, for good or ill. The pollsters were wrong. Hillary Clinton is not the President-elect. That is not what I thought when I went to bed, and I woke for the usual reason around 0330 and lay there in dark, wondering what had happened. The House? The Senate? I […]

November 8, 2016 Vic Socotra

Mac’s Election Day

Editor’s Note: Seemed like it was appropriate on this day to re-live our last election day with Admiral Showers. It was November of 2011, and we gathered, as usual, at Willow for a festive glass and raucous conversation. mac was feisty and full of energy. I recall there was a sense of optimism in the […]

November 7, 2016 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: Killer Clowns

PT Barnum said it long ago Voters, like suckers, born every minute, don-cha- no Primary candidates made us laugh, some made us cry These nominated clowns said the other’s gonna make us die Supporters came arunnin when their clown’s circus came to town They stayed away from the tents of the opponent killer clown TV […]

November 7, 2016 Vic Socotra

Mac likes Ike

07 November 2016 Editor’s Note: Well, tomorrow is election day and with luck, all this unpleasantness will be wrapped up by midnight. Hahaha- just funning with you. The FBI apparently went through the 650,000 emails on the computer that senior aide Huma Abedin’s shared with her disgraced husband. I am relieved, of course, that a […]

November 7, 2016 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: Close Call

Marlow’s Coastal Empire Neither’s a good person or combatant but each managed to get into the 2016 show brutal non-stop, side street fighting Darkened voter minds too far apart to bridge they are picking on each other’s biggest and meanest friends both wing and catch shots to the screams of their red and blue faced […]

November 6, 2016 Vic Socotra

Mac and Liz

Editor’s Note: This was written almost six years ago, to the day. Things were very different then, more so than I can even imagine. Liz-S is now an attorney for the IG of one of the large agencies around town, and regularly is on the civilian side of the bar. Mac is gone, as you […]

November 6, 2016 Vic Socotra

The White Palace

Editor’s Note: It is taking everything I have got to avoid thinking about the election, pitting Tumble Dee against Tumble Doh is a desperate play for all the marbles. I have never seen anything like it, and pray that none of us see anything like this again. We followed Mac and his family across the […]

November 6, 2016 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics

Napoleon Bonaparte, Bette Davis and the New President By the time most read this the election will be over, a new president will have been elected, and everyone, particularly the media pundits, will be in full throat, telling us what happens next. In that light, a little history to provide some context… (Charles Joseph Minard, […]

November 4, 2016 Vic Socotra

Mission Complete

Editor’s Note: I am looking out the window of the Mimslyn Hotel, a grand institution in Luray, Virginia. The Blue Ridge mountains beckon in the distance beyond the pool and the hot tub, dotted with the brilliant color of the and the air is fresh after last night’s rain. This is a lovely part of […]

November 3, 2016 Vic Socotra

Here We Go Again

It was a challenging day, with the conclusion being the finale of the World Series- the Cubbies finally breaking the 108-year-jinx and taking the World Series. It was a classic event, going all seven games and a nail-biter to the very end. My great thanks to both the Cubs and the Indians for making some […]