Miles looked at the unusually large crowd in the Conference Room. Watch sections Alpha and Bravo overlapped—one coming, one going—while Charlie lingered out by the Jacuzzi. Something had hit the STOP sign. The last transmission confirmed it: blockade imposed at the Strait of Hormuz. Negotiations had broken after nearly a full day at the table. […]

Sorry to take up bandwidth with an update that is a dramatic step for which US negotiators were prepared. Permitting the Iranians to regulate shipping at will in the Strait, like nuclear weapons in the hands of a Terrorist State. What’s next involves others. And quickly.   Vic and Splash

This slide summarizes our extensive research into the session of talks in Islamabad which had lasted nearly a full day with the bearded U.S. Vice President looking across the table at bearded Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff was freshly shaven, bringing a touch of the old formal world of diplomacy to […]

Artemis II Lunar Mission Profile (NASA Dates are for Future Planning). We are starting to shut things down now here at Socotra House. History is happening at unimaginable speed. There is history flying above us at around 35,000 miles an hour. You can see the reason for our post-Easter confusion with the animated close-by lunar […]

We had been working on a little human-interest style features for The Daily listings to see if we could snag some additional clicks on the view-meter. We had some general direction from the Chairman to take a page out of the DEI playbook and open what had been a rambling Cruise Book-style account of old […]

Dierdre had a late meeting with Miles in the conference room on Monday. The Boomers were long gone, headed for the 40th anniversary celebration over at Mr. Days Sports Bar in Clarenden. She was concerned about product placement in the Dailies and her role as bringing the old Vibrant Cuisine messaging stream that Jinny Martin […]

Dierdre burst into the Conference Room with a declarative announcement that seemed to bounce inward from the swirling gray outside the wide glass windows. “Y0!“ she said, pointing to Holly, who was leaning in from the Galley door with three brown grocery bags. Each was heaped tall with colorful boxes and containers. “I have a […]

Pastor fRank had done his Holy Week kick-off over at the Fairfax Ecumenical Chapel using young Reilly as an example from his group of theological students at the Temple of the Mystic Notion. It was a typical elliptical sermonette about examples, good and bad, that leaven the various philosophic pillars of thought. And how wisdom […]

Apologies for digging into the Socotra Archives, Gentle Readers, but the Chairman sent a note to Section Leader Miles with a copy of a battered old green notebook attached. He suggested we could use it as the conflict overseas enters a second week of steady-state explosive activity. It began a long time ago. The notebook […]