By The Numbers That is what led to the numbers game in the Socotra Conference Room on the fourth floor of The Trillium in Fairfax. You may have heard us call this our “Fifteen-Minute County.” Fairfax has attracted a substantial immigrant population over the years, and immigration has become part of the argument surrounding some […]

Editor’s Note: The news this morning is trumpeting developments in Women’s Sports and a war over the roles of XX and XY chromosomes in a demonstration of the changing roles in our social structure. As the citation on Monica Lin Brown’s Silver Star denotes, there are other changes. Some of them are profound. Like the […]

But most of these characters were hanging around due to the ominous date approaching on Tuesday: Deirdre is in a tizzy since Miles says her cookbook is going to hit the streets on Tuesday, and she only got the ISBN data for the technical stuff on Friday. So, she made everyone else who has a […]

There was a stirring in the Conference Room on the fourth deck of the Trillium building in Farmer Tysons Corner. There is a screen on the Socotra home page that appears after the “home” page with a global map covered with scrawls and lines. It is fairly comprehensive in the east-west direction, with occasional excursions […]

The above is what was approved last April. It is a big monument, signifying the start of a new century of national power. There has been some other activity in town that is remarkable for its energy. And for the jolts and sparks that will not settle into the usual gray legislative cycle of pale […]

This one caught Splash and Vic by surprise. they had been analyzing the five US Senate races to see what sort of mischief would be coming up. The image above shows the level of discourse that will be coming up in Michigan as they decide who will represent them in the coming struggles here in […]

Hi! Deirdre here, now free that the fritters are done in the Galley. The messaging this morning is all over. Miles told me he was going to look at the mass shootings reported here and up in Michigan and Kentucky. The news here in DC is more settled, like how access to some of the […]

Morning, Gentle Readers! Pastor Frank here to provide a Sunday Word for the Gentle Readership at Socotra House! Miles asked me to try to integrate some of the various messaging streams in the news this week. One of them had The Boys out on the South Patio making all sorts of noise last night. Major […]

This is a tough one, and some of the news caught Vic hard yesterday. The Crowd had gone to the County Fair over in our Fifteen Minute neighbor jurisdiction of Arlington. Miles wanted us to take a deliberate break, look around at the middle of August and appreciate the blessings of nature and our nation’s […]