(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 […]

The memorandum in formal script- Gramond, we thought- was an unusual feature on this lovely morning. The day, and the memo, both got our attention, since they both started out a bit chill. It was a bit like night, nature, and nurturing were bidding farewell to a winter thankfully sliding into the past. And it […]

Afternoon, Gang! This is worth a quick catch up in the battles in progress on The Hill. We have been exposed to the strange gyrations in the Senate lately. Sen. McConnell just stepped down as the longest GOP leader on the Senate side. Seeking to relieve him as the Senate’s #2 official are Texas Sen. […]

Ides of March Edition The term for this morning has assumed, in our derivative language, a simple connotation of impending or immediate anguish. It is the “Ides of March.” In a more rigorous context, this is the 74th day in the ancient Roman calendar. It now has passed from Julian to Gregorian, as our 15th […]

Morning! We are working on the cover for the next publishable project. We write about it every day, and the Chairman thinks a progressive series of the minutia of living through what is going to happen to us will be a fun romp. We will see about that. We agree that this will be a […]