Author: Vic Socotra

State of the Onion

Snow Delays & Regime Change Windows Miles stood before the White Board like a man briefing a reluctant empire. STATE OF THE UNION – Tomorrow Night He tapped it with the marker. “With the USS Ford strike group still sliding east across the Mediterranean, and a prime-time address tomorrow, war with Iran probably can’t happen […]

SIC TRANSIT

Inline image Splash set the tablet in the middle of the Conference Table. The screen glowed blue — icy blues — snowflakes, rinks, and the sort of frozen theater that pauses a nation. He raised his hand over it, then pointed at Miles. Our Section Leader was reclined in his ergonomic throne, watching a faster […]

Men’s Hockey Gold!

Men’s Olympic Hockey Gold in OT! We have some Michiganders in the crowd and emotion was high. The American men join the Women’s team as best on Ice in ’26! Elsewhere, shortly after midnight, a young man attempted to penetrate the security perimeter of the home of President Trump at Mar a Lago. He was […]

Recipes, Real Estate and the Next Bomb

“Two shotguns, a pistol, ammunition, flamethrowers containing thermite, and a cell phone,” Miles announced to open the Saturday session. “Is that what we’re supposed to bring if we go to the VABC store before the next Bomb Cyclone?” Rocket asked. “The ice mound in the left turn lane off Leesburg Pike from January is still […]

Napalm, People and a Boat

Splash looked over at the crowd at the north end of the conference table. The fog outside the east window bank swaddled the view in white nearly as thick as white cotton stuffing. “It is supposed to get to the mid-fifties later, so I think we will be done with the snow cover by this […]

A Presidential Day

We forgot it was a holiday today. We should have stayed in bed. This particular national holiday is one many of us tend to forget. Some would prefer to forget a few of the Presidents we honor along with it. Miles looked around at the Boomers gathered at the table. Splash, Rocket, Melissa and Vic […]

Half Time

Miles skipped the Monday meeting. That was a big deal. We don’t know why, since we may hae been dozing when things fell apart with the field goal kicking late in the second quarter, Eastern Standard Time. Splash drove the white company mini-SUV to Urgent Care after the accident, which he insists was nothing. Still, […]

Letter From Korea

1980 Special Edition at Lunch After the Super Bowl Daily Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Editor’s Note: In 1980, United States Forces Korea (USFK) operated amidst intense political turmoil in South Korea, marked by the May 17 Coup d’état and the subsequent Kwangju Uprising. USFK maintained security as the ROK students rioted. We […]

Blink of an Eye

Miles was frustrated this morning. No one could blame him. There was too much news, and it was ironic, since there had been excitement from the Olympics in Italy. He had deliberately not mentioned the Winter Games as they kicked off last week. Today, though, brought a story of triumph and tragedy, as Breezy Johnson […]

Special Afternoon Edition: That Iran Thing

Before the shooting starts, the lifting does. That Iran Thing “While public attention rotated through spectacle — medals, commercials, halftime choreography — a different kind of movement continued largely offscreen: the slow, deliberate stacking of lift, fuel, and steel across the eastern Mediterranean and Gulf. Not the sound of war beginning, but of options being […]