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October 18, 2016 Vic Socotra

Better Than X-Box

I patrol in the rugged hills And valleys of a dusty, Distant land, which kills The careless — Searching For the enemy hunting me… Brutal blood sport thrills Pursued kinetically, relentlessly, By high-school graduates, Valley-to-valley, door-to-door, What more excitement Could a young dude ask for… copyright J.P.N. | Poetry, Etc., From Kanagawa, South of Tokyo, […]

October 17, 2016 Vic Socotra

Binnacle List: Jim Champagne

I am glad I went out to Las Vegas a couple months ago. My pals Old Jim and Chanteuse Mary made the decision to retire to the desert last year, before we knew that our little world was about to end. It was a splendid run at the World’s Greatest Bar Restaurant, and the Champagnes […]

October 17, 2016 Vic Socotra

Black Friday

Black Friday Background Christmas music insinuating “It’s time to shop”, and thereby messing Up what would otherwise be a cold Clean day, which now is depressing And vitiated, as are we ourselves, Grasping credit cards, and pressing Into crowds of slaves of Santa’s elves. copyright J.P.N. | Poetry, Etc., From Kanagawa, South of Tokyo, Japan […]

October 16, 2016 Vic Socotra

Morning Pause

Those occasional moments when, His mind is like a blank piece of Paper, but forgot to bring a pen… copyright J.P.N. | Poetry, Etc., From Kanagawa, South of Tokyo, Japan

October 15, 2016 Vic Socotra

Arias Speaks: Maxwell Taylor, Sam Malone, and the Establishment

General Maxwell Taylor, a great combat soldier who became a horrible Washington DC general, brought the theory of proportional response to our national security. He convinced the Kennedy and Johnson administrations of its merit and they embraced it – Vietnam was partly the result. The essence of the theory is that when some other country […]

October 15, 2016 Vic Socotra

Majestic

We cast a wide net here at The Daily. We have to. These days it is necessary to duck the sordid reality of what passes for politics in this great land these days. The mysteries will all be revealed soon enough, so there is no point in hashing it out here. What will be, will […]

October 14, 2016 Vic Socotra

Notes From Ketchum

As usual, peripatetic travelers Jim and Peggy Mueller are on the road again, this time in the wild raw beauty of the American West. Since this intersects with some of my travels back in the day, and a stalled Hemingway manuscript that I have been working on these last few decades, this account electrified me. […]

October 14, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tacitus Speaks: What Difference Does it Make?

We are witnessing the extraordinarily messy closing weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign. It’s not really Clinton versus Trump anymore. It’s the leftist media versus the Russians. Mind you, the Trump campaign isn’t colluding with the SVR and FSB. It goes without saying that the Clinton campaign and the likes of the Washington Post and […]

October 13, 2016 Vic Socotra

TAPS Mr. Donald T. Shanower

Gentle Readers, There are some bittersweet memories of that awful day in Washington when American Airlines Flight 77 was highjacked by terrorists and flown into the Pentagon here in Arlington. One of the five ONI people who died that morning was CDR Dan Shanower. His loss, and that of the other 124 who perished, was […]

October 12, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tacitus Speaks: Selectivity

I guess I need to wade, ever so carefully, deeper into radioactive waters. To do so I need to return to yesterday’s essay wherein I opined that the Clintons had launched a morality-neutron warhead at Donald Trump. What did I mean by that? The neutron bomb, as some of you will recall, was a Reagan […]