Hey! Get your head straight! I did not spend fourteen seasons in contact football, eight of them in full pads, to not pay special attention to the reports of cognitive issues discovered in former football players. I do not claim I was particularly good at the sport, although enthusiastic, but I certainly did get hit […]

This was the word on the Iranian Republican Guard High Command mobilizing missiles, rockets and drones to impose it’s will on the Strait of Hormuz and any entity that threatens it. The Americans would be the ones in those cross hairs, with this guy the way he looks at work. This is General Mohsen Rezaei, […]

There are certain phrases that make perfect sense once somebody explains them, although you may wish they hadn’t. “Week Zero” is apparently one of them. The 2026 college football season officially gets underway today at noon Eastern, which seems perfectly normal until you discover that the opening game is being played five time zones away […]

An Emotional Chili Dance Off! Miles had a bunch of cool topics lined up for the graphics and production guys, who were already about halfway out the door to head across the River and see if they could get a seat at Eebee’s Corner Bar over in Shaw. There was one that showed how Deirdre […]

We don’t know if this one is, but it stopped Deirdre in her tracks when she went looking for Rocket to open our weekend spread on the way he manages chili recipes across spice, color and the main protein in the pot. You knew starting with something this emotional was going to get us agitated […]

There was a reddish moon hanging over the conversation in the Conference Room this morning. It is the August Sturgeon Moon, one of those old seasonal names that survives from a time when people paid considerably more attention to what was happening in the water and sky than to what was happening on their phones. […]

The Conference Table has been getting crowded, lately. It was making the Dance-Off crowded and a little confused. This afternoon we have drifted into a severe thunderstorm alert that will last nearly through the eclipse tonight, so we may miss that part of tonight’s show, though we may have other things to watch out the […]

There will be plenty more swirling about Dolly and her legacy today. There should be. Yesterday afternoon, her passing stopped what we were doing here at Socotra House. The sausage soup show went back into the Galley, the Dance-Off changed direction, and for a little while we joined millions of other Americans remembering a woman […]

Miles thought we should run the Dance Off today with a rolling joke about Vic’s big appointment this morning down at Fair Oaks. He had cataract surgery six months ago, and this was the follow-up. The Creative Section sent a small delegation along, since they were interested in a stop at Shake Shack while Vic […]