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November 18, 2016 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: AfterMath(ew)

Note: I wrote today’s piece several days after Hurricane Matthew raked the Georgia coast. It was one of the pieces of recovered data from my failed laptop. Marlow’s Coastal Empire Matthew was the kind of storm whose Savannah area rainfall total suggested his moisture laden sky had binged on diuretics before his arrival. Ten inches […]

November 18, 2016 Vic Socotra

Two Out of Three

Editor’s Note: The cabinet nominations are starting to drop. This morning it is Mike Flynn, America’s angriest General (press) for national Security Advisor. Sen. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General and a congressman I have never heard of to be Director of the CIA. I wish Mac were around to talk about all this. He might […]

November 17, 2016 Vic Socotra

Regime Change

(Demonstration in Tehran, 1953, opposing Operation AJAX. Photo Public Radio International). “I told you the other day that I was sent to London in May of 1950 from DC.” I nodded in agreement, and got out my pen and prepared to take notes. “I rented the flat, picked up our 1949 Mercury four-door sedan at […]

November 15, 2016 Vic Socotra

Binding Commitment

Editor’s Note: I stayed up late watching Monday Night Football, something fewer and fewer of us do these days for a variety of perfectly good reason, some of them akin to the reason we have a President-elect with orange hair. I talked at length about that with Liz-with-an-S at the bar last night. She was […]

November 15, 2016 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: Saturday Night on the Front Porch

Note: I wrote today’s piece way back in the early fall just before my “new” laptop developed a fatal hard drive fault. It took a long time to fix the computer and then chase down the old drive all over the country before recovering the data thereon. It was the opening day of the 2016 […]

November 14, 2016 Vic Socotra

Going Ashore

14 November 2016 Editor’s Note: It was a quiet enough weekend, though there did not appear to be enough of it. I did not take to the streets in protest, but just enjoyed the marvelous crisp air of autumn. If there were disturbances downtown over the results of the election, they did not spill over […]

November 13, 2016 Vic Socotra

Mid-way

Editor’s note: Mac would have been happy this morning, and I am trusting that somewhere he is. The Iowa Hawkeyes knocked off my Michigan Wolverines in a tiresome reprise of some games back in the 1980s. People are still rioting in the Pacific Northwest, though I honestly can’t imagine why. Maybe it is something else […]

November 13, 2016 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: Age of Style

Marlow’s Coastal Empire Election 2016 seems to have boiled down to who could encapsulate his/her message to the general public in vignettes as entertaining, as compelling with clearly dramatic highs and lows, and as briefly as possible. Once again, effective self-storytelling and self-selling were about the characters and not the story, policy substance, truth or […]

November 12, 2016 Vic Socotra

When I’m (92)

12 November 2016 Editor’s Note: Apparently there is still rioting over the refusal of some citizens to accept the results of the election. I vividly recall all the Republican pouring out into the street back in 2008 to protest, smash the windows protecting small businesses and vandalize automobiles….oh, wait. That never happened. Never mind. Whatever […]

November 11, 2016 Vic Socotra

Billie and Mac

Editor’s Note: It is Veterans Day, and one of contemplation. There have been two nights of protest in the streets about the election, some of them violent. I knew this wouldn’t be over, even with the results seemingly final. They were not interrupted by attacks, cyber or terrorist, and there few reports of anything but […]