Author: Vic Socotra

Fat Tuesday

The big screen in the living room- it is paid for- is barely cool from the late run on Sunday night. Today, it is going to heat up again when I get home from work to tally up the votes from the Super Primaries. Forty-three races in twenty-four states to pick over three thousand delegates […]

The Great Firewall

My head hurts. You know why, since you shared the experience. Eli manning may have got the Most Valuable Player award, but it was someone else who put the game away with seconds to go. Plaxico Burress, the amazing Giants wide receiver, has been a thorn in my side for years. I only realized it […]

The Great Firewall

My head hurts. You know why, since you shared the experience. Eli manning may have got the Most Valuable Player award, but it was someone else who put the game away with seconds to go. Plaxico Burress, the amazing Giants wide receiver, has been a thorn in my side for years. I only realized it […]

The Ashton

Alesha just moved to the neighborhood, and is camped out in Buckingham Village 2, or what the Paragon developers are now calling Buckingham Commons. She occupies the office suite on the first floor of the end unit at the east end of the first line of row houses. She is an attractive woman, and will […]

The Ashton

Alesha just moved to the neighborhood, and is camped out in Buckingham Village 2, or what the Paragon developers are now calling Buckingham Commons. She occupies the office suite on the first floor of the end unit at the east end of the first line of row houses. She is an attractive woman, and will […]

Secular Sabbath

On the holy day, you are not supposed to work. It is devotional, as I understand it. We don’t have them much anymore in the West, but there is a growing movement to turn off the devices. Turn them all off. People are doing it all over. They are putting down the Blackberry, refusing to […]

Secular Sabbath

On the holy day, you are not supposed to work. It is devotional, as I understand it. We don’t have them much anymore in the West, but there is a growing movement to turn off the devices. Turn them all off. People are doing it all over. They are putting down the Blackberry, refusing to […]

Robots

I got the word that the Republicans have a significant gender problem, not the same one the Democrats have, but significant just the same. The women seem to like Mitt, and the men seem to like Big John. It is simplistic and patronizing to put it this way, but I think it has some genetic […]

Robots

I got the word that the Republicans have a significant gender problem, not the same one the Democrats have, but significant just the same. The women seem to like Mitt, and the men seem to like Big John. It is simplistic and patronizing to put it this way, but I think it has some genetic […]

Hellfire

I am shaken this morning by the realization that the Senators apparently now really like one another. I am a little disappointed that the male and female Democratic frontrunners were so chummy at the debate last night, and even more shaken when I realize that the female frontrunner also knocked back a couple whiskeys with […]