We passed a considerable milestone this month, and we should all be proud of it. We are nearly five months into Fiscal 2024 and have yet to pass all the appropriations bills for the year that is almost halfway done. The current hodgepodge of consolidated funding runs out on Thursday, 01 March. Midnight, we think. […]

(Poet William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939. Image courtesy Wiki). We have to ask your indulgence this morning. Not that we don’t incur your debt on that count regularly, and all we wanted to do was showcase one of the extraordinary works of Irish-British poet William Butler Yeats. We will keep this appreciation on the ethos surrounding […]

The visit passed swiftly with the usual jumble of laughter, old jokes, and a hint of sadness that the family one of us had was there and the other three already passed to the ages. There was important stuff that was necessary. One long medical adventure seemed to lurch forward from convalescence to something closer […]

Benedict Arnold has a new book out. It is a striking treatment of a man who has been termed “the most hated man in America.” We have never seen a picture of him, since his time predates photography. The etching above was a “first seen” for many of us. Arnold is a complex figure in […]

You don’t have to open up the copy of the ancient history that showed up in the mail yesterday. I assumed it was a medical bill, since the medical/pharmaceutical industry is sending all sorts of pieces of paper with preposterously large numbers on them. They pass almost without comment, and this was fairly modest as […]

(Here, the Navy’s Aviation Cadets- the AvCads- are planning for their final exercise in aerial navigation in 1944 before graduation and award of their Wings of Gold). Morning, Gentle Readers! Splash brought out some ancient pictures this morning and plopped them down under the high cirrus clouds streaking the pale optimistic blue of heaven.. The […]

We could go a couple of directions this morning. The New York Real Estate ruling against a former Chief Executive has a lot of folks consternated, since no one in the jury-less trial would have stipulated a fine near a half-billion dollars and intended only to penalize the presumptive nominee in an election year. That […]

(This image was created as a template for a patch intended to commemorate the large annual military exercise in the Korean Republic. It was known as “Team Spirit,” and is still vigorously conducted, partly as a reasonable preparation and partly as a declaration of earnest will to the Current Kim to the north. The artist […]

(Sheriff Jones of Butler County, OH, as depicted by DCclothesline.com. Opinions expressed in this piece do not necessarily represent those of Socotra House LLC or independent content contributors). Sheriff Richard K. Jones is a Boomer from Butler County, Ohio. Some of us have been attempting to retrieve some of our Ohio heritage, something that has […]

Morning- or afternoon!- from here in Arlington, Virginia. We are entertaining, hosting a luncheon here in Big Pink. Accordingly, we won’t talk about the special election in New York to replace that Soros fellow. We will not mention the big Russian landing ship the Ukrainians put under water off a former piece of their country […]