We bitch a lot about how we have arrived in this precarious position in a nation once considered th emost powerful on our wobbly Globe. Things have been teetering with increasing motion of late, and we thought it might be useful to do a quick iteration of the steps that have brought us to a […]

Yeah, let’s start with the “all the stuff listed above is actually going on. It is all in the process of unfolding. The major story of this installment of our annual life is a curious one, since it evokes old passions of campus life. We are not quite sure wha the pro-Hamas encampments actually means, […]

(Rep. Adam Schiff, House Member from California’s 30th District and a leading candidate for election to California’s vacant Senate seat, left by Senator Diane Feinstein’s passing. He began the campaign with years of solemn accusations about the guilt of a former President on a number of largely imaginative and novel legal cases investigated over seven […]

(Judy Collins is one of two singers who defined her generation. We will not address the other guy who still fronts the Rolling Stones since his story is harder and quite different. Judy’s tale is unique, and has inspired audiences with sublime vocals in boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to […]

(Cartoon image from Carlson in 2009 about another unsustainable moment in our sophisticated national financial system). We have heard those words before. We think it was around the big real estate collapse back in 2008. We had one of those surreal mornings back then when someone mentioned the Zillow prices on the condo we owned […]

Some of us from the Socotra House Writer’s Section have stood at the base of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and walked uphill past Al Aqsa’s stately Dome of the Rock on the way to pay our respects to the Church at Manger square. A correspondent for “AllIsraelNews” named J. Micah Hancock was there as […]

(Ice mass either encroaching or retreating. We forget which year this was. Image courtesy WorldAtlas.com) We thought we had done this year with our recognition of the really big enormous climate crisis with the observation of Earth Day. That began a long time ago, and in 1970 we were assured that great mountains of sheer […]

(Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein appears in a legal proceeding yesterday that overturned his conviction for sexual assault. He will receive a new trial with fewer accusations. Photo NewsFinal.com) We were attempting to wade through some of the legal issues that were paraded through the messaging yesterday. Our Legal folks say we can talk about […]

Slow News Week? All that stuff in the three columns above is actually going on. A sample of of it is included in the note above- we would never have imagined a thousand young Americans being in a place called “Niger.” Apparently we have some sort of agreement with whoever is running that nation at […]

(A local building in Washington then-known as the Executive Mansion. Civic leaders had to paint over the black scars of British arson). We already talked about ANZAC Day, so we can turn to some anniversaries better remembered right here. There are some other interesting ones coming this year that will lend their names to these […]