Author: Vic Socotra

Barbequen With Bobby

Bobby Seale on the cover of his Cookbook www.BobbyQueSeale.com There is alarm abroad in the land, and hope. This morning the balance is tilting toward the latter one, at least in Nebraska, Washington and Kansas. The money is going that way, too I have a sense that the country as a whole is ready for […]

Ancient Errors

Oh, the wires burned last night! Romney quit, which did not surprise me, and I was distracted, trying to dig myself out of an editorial hole. I should have been working on the Spring issue of the publication I produce as volunteer labor. Instead, I was cropping pictures of the first concrete that is going […]

Lies

The commentary is starting to die down a bit, since the prospect of the coming months on the campaign trail is distressing at best. This area has the highest concentration of political commentators in the known universe, and even the local radio is awash with national-level discourse. The Liberals I listen to were all over […]

Sticks and Stones

I stayed up too late last night, trying to figure out California. As if anyone could. Things in the dirt had erupted to alter the course of events in my little world, and I was having trouble coming to grips with it all. The dirt across the street at the George Schultz Foreign Service Training […]

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 […]

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 […]