Vic was born in another time of generational change. Detroit ranked as the 5th‑largest U.S. city at the 1950 census (population peak ~1.85 million). Before and after 1950 its rank changed (it was 4th in 1920, 3rd–4th earlier, and fell after 1950). And this morning? Now 26th, nestled between Boston and Louisville. It is the […]

Special Socotra House Sports Edition! Behind 45 points from Jalen Brunson, Knicks win in San Antonio to clinch franchise’s first NBA title in 53 years. That was last night and reports this morning are that New York City is still partying in the Dawn’s Early LIght. The action moves down here to DC this evening […]

OK- we got the Primaries out of the way and we can turn out attention to the biggest sporting events in the world. We are NOT talking about the mid-term elections, but rather some lesser but still significant events that are scheduled to occur over the next three days! First, of course is lunch: Once […]

(Keith, Dierdre, Holly, Miles, Eddie Images WER and VS). Now, let’s get things straight. We are not actually speaking Farsi this morning. Or Persian is the way the President summed it up this morning in his abbouncement that he will start smacking the Iranians again today with kinetic strokes on the economic and remaining military […]

For those of us attempting to celebrate (part) of the past in today’s current moment. The consequences of that resumption of major combat operations in the Middle East will not be known until the Battle Damage Assessment starts coming back thi afternoon, so we are going to trot our Boomer Vic out here to parafe […]