Author: Vic Socotra

Arrian on Current Affairs: Our Unraveling Security

Shia radicals launch missiles at a US Navy destroyer, missiles provided by Iran, probably made in China. North Korea continues development of a nuclear weapon and an ICBM. Russia bombs insurgents in Syria; Russian naval forces return to the Mediterranean; Russian intelligence personnel return to Cuba. China pressures Japan on islands in the East China […]

Errata and the Way Ahead

Gentle Readers, As you you, this is a rough and tumble game, this blogosphere stuff, and generally speaking I don’t go back and correct minor mistakes in The Daily. You already know that, too, so I don’t need to elaborate though of course I will. Endless revisions of this ephemeral stuff is the digital equivalent […]

City of Night

Author’s Note: Point Loma is back! He added this note of explanation for his absence: “For all of my fans out there (okay, both of you, and you know who you are you guilty bastards), I must apologize for my extended absence from the Socotra sagas. This is in not entirely sloth on my part, […]

Cavemen’s Legacy

Cavemen’s Legacy There is in us a power, We feel it when we gather Around the fire, sharing meat and stories, rather Than staring at the sky Alone, this power in us Warms, protects, it is why We endure, even thrive, In the unforgiving place Where we must survive. copyright J.P.N. | Poetry, Etc., From […]

Send in the Old Breed

(Globe and Anchor CEO Herley, preparing for mission insertion). OK- I was doing my part in the Ground Game this morning, and drove a pal to the absentee-in-person Early Voting polling station near the Courthouse Metro stop on the Orange Line. That seemed more important than the Daily Story, which had the editorial bullpen in […]

National Lay-Off Appreciation Day

(The Front Page National Lay-Off Appreciation Day crowd applauds the loss of Jon’s income. L-R, JPeter (father was a legendary Christians In Action Chief of Station), Keith the Master Mounter (from the Smithsonian), Liz-with-an-S, Certified Fraud Examiner from the Office of the Inspector General Upstairs From the Bar rand former Mixologist from the fabulous Willow) […]

Sunday, With Buzzards

It was a slow and slightly disassociated weekend. I am still feeling like crap, kind of a low-grade motion sickness, and can’t tell if it is an effect of an over-ambitious social schedule or delayed reaction to the cautiously good news about the state of my general health. I came down to the farm after […]

Arias on Politics: Alienable Rights

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – Preamble to the Declaration of Independence It’s time to choose. Despite all the noise, the choice between the two […]

Dining In

I looked over at the time-hack on the menu bar to the computer and decided it was about time to get organized. I pulled the two tuxedos out of the closet and checked which jacket seemed to fit better, put the other one away, and looked at the single miniature military medal I would wear […]

This Just In- From Japan!

This just in from an Old Japan Hand…. new special feature of the NIP on-line presence. We think it will be a useful connection to the Kanto Plain and the Tokyo-wan that many of us called home at one time, however briefly. This Old Japan Hand has a made a career of interpreting two amazing […]