It is Juneteenth today, the celebration of Emancipation Day, a Federal Day of Thanks for the ending of chattel slavery here in 1865. And whatever is going on in this world when something like it seems to have returned to these shores only a few years ago. It would be easy to lose track of […]

The messaging about memos is swirling this morning. Some of us have been watching this for nearly a half century, so you can understand our feelings veer back and forth from optimism to pessimism. We do not trust the Iranians and do not know if enough of the old regime has been eradicated to change […]

We were going to putout a special Edition last night after the polls closed on the primary election in the Twenty-Minute County nexxt door. it is an exciting time here, since these figures have announced some pretty startling plans. Here they are, to start: In general order, Councilman McDuffie promises more of the same, with […]

You can see what was happening at the Production Meeting this morning at Socotra House. The group is a little short with Section Leader MIles off on a working group on resumption of oil traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Splash claims to be doing elsewhere and it is clear Rocket would prefer to be […]

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 […]