Not all endings arrive with gravity. Or in the Gulf… A busy morning, in the 4th Floor Conference Room at Socotra House in extreme north Fairfax County. It was draped over something weightier. The larger matters were already in motion—distant, consequential, unresolved. They will keep. They always do. The Smart Guys have adjusted their estimates […]

(Art: Socotra, WER and Chat) 51? We ran a story about our exploits on a Pub Crawl to re-awaekn memories of the old rip-roaring Adams-Morgan area of the District. That was going to be the opic this mrning, but it turned out we were all going back aross the brown Potomac to DC, just not […]

Tough afternoon here. Spring is back and literally pounding on the big windows that just got washed for the season. No kidding. It was what some of the afternoon resembled as we attempted to piece together what was happening in the Gulf and down below the window. We let Miguel handle that part after he […]

There is a bunch of stuff overseas with the War and whether the hard line IRGC crowd in Iran will see the light or not. In National partisan politics, it turns out the Southern Poverty Law folks were funding the neo-Nazi and klan horrors they claimed to be fighting, and those revelations may be to […]

This appeared after the 0900 Creative Section Meeting adjourned and Splash considered dumping his orange juice into the fruit cup and adding something else for excitement when something thudded against the big 4th Floor window. That upset Maggie, who was visiting from Financial to examine some of Dierdre’s charges to the Chairman’s Zelle account that […]

This will be interesting. Also, something before the cosmic dust settles on Artemis 2, Fast Eddie hassome historic totals incurred in the Space Race: On Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 10:11:47 AM EDT, Peter O’Brien <peter@obrienconsultinginc.com> wrote: And I’m back from voting “No!” On Apr 21, 2026, at 09:03, JayAre303@aol.com wrote: That is why Legal […]

The American President had another busy weekend. No surprise there, as yesterday he announced that an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that attempted to bypass the U.S. naval blockade in the Persian Gulf. He said, “The U.S. Navy Guided Missile Destroyer USS SPRUANCE intercepted the merchant ship TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman, and gave them fair […]

OK, Miles is concentrated on what is going on in the Straits- there is a 900 foot tanker now without an engine room in the middle of it. He has three watch sections of assorted ages watching things and they have been straggling around the clock now for days. Dierdre is tired of ordering, organizing […]

It’s another one of those mornings to confront change. Far away, there were reports of two small arms attacks against two tankers- French and British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz by what remains of the 63-hull IRGC inventory of Boghammar-style fast patrol boats. Status of those remaining small ships is not clear without target […]

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