An evening of naval history and the role of intelligence in battle at the International Spy Museum The International Spy Museum (800 F St NW, Washington, DC 20004) is a national treasure of spookery, tradecraft and strange tales. It is a must-see attraction when visiting Your Nation’s Capital, and well worth the trip downtown. Numerous […]

(The Burger Bash 2015 Grand Champion, two in a row for Tracy’s Willow team). I told you last year it would not be the last time I wrote about Willow. In a way, it is always going to be with us. Heather talked about it at Front Page the other night, that the one-year anniversary […]

Linden, New Jersey, can rest a little easier this afternoon. A fellow named Ahmad Khan Rahami was found sleeping in the doorway to a bar, and when awakened, produced a pistol and engaged in a running gun battle with police after shooting a cop in the abdomen. Thankfully the officer was wearing a ballistic vest […]

I am in terre incognita here. I wake each morning with the dread feeling that something awful is either about to happen, or already has. I am staying away form the television. The left and the alt.right commentators are savaging each other, and the kick-off for the Michigan game is still an hour and a […]

Well, things are getting interesting, aren’t they? I am not quite sure what to think about it all. If that video clip from the 9/11 ceremony had not surfaced, we would not even be having a discussion, much less breathless theories about insidious medical matters, body doubles and conspiracies. It is a bewildering world of […]

We have a broad and inclusive net to capture ideas filled with the diverse nature of Life in These United States. To that end, the staff of the Daily Socotra has introduced you to some fellow digital scribblers in the digital world. We hear from shipmate Point Loma about the way life was like, afloat […]

It was an emotional day yesterday, filled with ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery, the Pentagon and Ground Zero. I did not attempt to get to either the five-sided Adult Care facility, nor to the cemetery as I do most anniversaries of that awful day. Instead, there was a birthday and wine-tasting out at the Bull Run […]

12 September 2001 The Day After Editor’s Note: I kept copies of everything from those days- not physical ones, of course; I have moved too often to keep paper records. But digital lasts forever these days- and I thought that on this day before the 15th anniversary of that awful day in September that changed […]