(We asked the Art Department for a snazzy graphic to top the story this morning. She took a picture of the book she had been assigned for her course on student preparation in California. It is from the staff of the Chief Justice of their Supreme Court, not ours. The ‘activities for kids’ has apparently […]

(Cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, now 85, created the Freak Brothers more than 40 years ago. He may appreciate today’s rambling reality as bettering those of his boys). There is the start of a full-blown ‘freakout’ over the endless election campaign. It is striking in this short week after the solemn holiday that celebrated our Fallen. There […]

Author’s Note: We had intended to launch the new book, “A Little Traveling Music” this morning. Despite anguished conversations with Production in Bangalore, India, we did not accomplish publication today. Instead, we offer a segment of the new book that is a newer compilation derived from another project in motion, which is the free-wheeling memoirs […]

“Chechen Shot While Surveilling Special Ops Soldier’s North Carolina Home” Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of vicsocotra.com. US Fleet Forces Commander Admiral Daryl Caudle is the leader down at the World’s Largest Naval Base in Norfolk. He took the Memorial Day break to announce […]

(Rescuers carry a body from the fallen helicopter that carried President Ebrahim Raisi in NW Iran. Photo credit: Azin Haghighi/MOJ News Agency, via Agence France-Presse-Getty Images) It is a solemn holiday of remembrance today. We remind ourselves each year of the sacrifice given by mostly young people over the years our nation has stood as […]

Memorial Day 2024 Memorial Day is the day we stop and think about the 1,355,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen who have died while in service to the nation. But, one of the things about Memorial Day that always bothers me is that, while the Soldiers and Sailors and Airmen and Marines who […]

(File image of Special Council Jack Smith) The Production Meeting of the Writer’s Section was done, copy filed and posted and the skies beckoned with something that looked a bit like the color “blue.” The Marketing and Legal Sections were taking the long weekend to amuse themselves with good ideas about activities of personal interest, […]

So, it is the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend. one of the minor messaging streams in progress this morning was about other messages, some quite old in origin. The Salts had dug up a fascinating string about USS Harder, an American submarine of note that was lost in World War iI. She went down […]

We could keep this a little shorter by simply waving our calloused hands at the screen over there by the backdoor to The patio. “All that stuff on the slide is going on.” Then we could pour another morning cup of java, or whatever that stuff Splash drinks in the morning. He claims Congress just […]

Socotra’s Top Stories Today In the run-up to America’s presidential election, we’ve continued the Socotra tradition of producing a daily update to help you keep on top of the political stories that matter. Management insists on production of a Daily, for reasons they attribute to something they call “continuity of operations.” We shrugged, having already […]