(This is a visual representation of $1 trillion bucks, represented by stacking $100 bills on top of each other in neat rectangular stacks. In the single-stack vertical version, the stack would be 631 miles high. Congress passed a bill last night bringing the discretionary component of our budget to nearly a thousand miles in height). […]

This is a big day. We are not going to let go of the tilt, which has dogged us through the winter season. There was an announcement from the Expert teams at the Park and Weather Services (they each have one that periodically make joint announcements). They say the cherry trees at the Basin on […]

(New York State Attorney General Letitia James announces she does not want to take possession of Trump Tower in Manhattan in order to satisfy a preliminary ruling that will be appealed on a variety of Constitutional Issues against a former senior Administration official). Tough morning, and we beg your forgiveness for our lack of preparation. […]

(That is Bobbie Darin, the pop crooner who released the single “Mack the Knife” back in 1958. Mom and Dad had purchased the 45 RPM single and played it on the record player that sate on the table in the corner of the dining room in Birmingham, Michigan). The tune had a remarkable arc in […]

(What is the caption to this strange melange of “reports” and alleged “news?” “This stuff is all going on? The staff spent the afternoon updating the updates. Images provided at low-resolution for identification purposes only). There is political stuff all over this week. Our favorite is not the one going on here, interesting though it […]

A Little Traveling Music By Vic Socotra (Scroll down for triumphant messaging!) Socotra House Publishing LLC, Arlington Blvd, Arlington, VA 22203 Please join us this morning for a modicum of merriment. The guys from Production stopped by early yesterday as things we starting to wake up for the week of work. The Project had been […]

This just in, yawn. We will do a more comedic approach for the broader audience, but this one is straightforward. Preliminary results indicate a huge victory for Vladimir Putin, but “thousands protest at polling stations and Russian embassies worldwide. TOPSHOT-RUSSIA-POLITICS-PUTIN-PRESSER Putin’s victory was never in doubt | Pool photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AFP via Getty Images […]

(Vladimir Putin casts a vote at the Kremlin polling station- presumably his. No other protests at the Kremlin were reported, though there were some elsewhere. Photo Kremlin Press Pool via Associated Press). We made the prediction when the voting began in Russia last Friday. We did not consider it to be a matter that required […]

SCOTUS bumps across the line from the partisan Lawfare campaign intended to interfere with the election this November, the one that piled up nearly a hundred charges on issues sometimes decades older than the statute of limitations normally permits. Last week’s legal tumult included what is generally considered victories for the defendant, who apparently has […]

This was one of our Big Days, back when they still had relative sizes. There would be a general destination specified and an approximate set time to arrive Kitty O’Shea’s (11:00 Opening) or Ireland’s Four Courts (10:30) sometime this morning for a pint or four. We do not have that sort of stamina in the […]