Socotra’s Top Stories Today In the run-up to America’s presidential election, we’ve continued the Socotra tradition of producing a daily update to help you keep on top of the political stories that matter. Management insists on production of a Daily, for reasons they attribute to something they call “continuity of operations.” We shrugged, having already […]

(The Socotra House Legal Section made an appearance! Intern Kit is out with her supervisors). We were hoping to launch the new book with a formal announcement this morning and a brief flashy presentation by Meat from the Marketing section. He did not come, and asked Legal to send a small team to make a […]

Casting off Lines on a Book Launch This morning there is a ‘waxing gibbous moon’ with a hint of chill out on The Patio. You know the drill. It was early enough for the collision of those Salts still coming in from overnight activities and those who had collapsed early and were ready to start […]

(Iranian Air Force Bell 412 Helicopter. Image courtesy Airliners.com) This messaging was just in over the last two news cycles. We don’t claim to fully understand it. Old Salt Jake leaned across the picnic table, placing his tablet aside his plate of scrambled eggs. He pointed down at the glowing screen and said: “I’ve been […]

Morning, Gentle Readers! We have an experiment here. This is an outline of the book after the current book, which is in progress while we prepared for printing and release of the newest book- “A Little Traveling Music.” We are excited about that, but of course other stuff flew around while trying to capture some […]

Author’s Note: This commentary accompanies the initial public release of the “WER” Sketchbook, a project that attempts to capture someof the extraordinary work from The Greatest Generation who faced challenges that must have appeared (to them) as large as the ones that confront us today. So, forgive us. We are publishing “A Little Traveling Music” […]

(Jinny Thomas, Martha-Ann Alito and Loren Merchan were in the news recently. Jinny is married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Martha-Ann to Samuel Alito on the Court and Loren is the daughter of the Judge who is trying a former President for an inappropriate book-keeping error that might have been fraudulent if it had […]

The trial of Donald Trump has finished its fifth week up in New York. Expectation from the legal pundits were that District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against the former president rested on one person alone: Michael Cohen. His testimony was a disaster, and the trial may end up sooner than expected. There could still be […]

We were told not to think by Management until things settle down a bit and we are clear of any of the legal entanglements currently in motion. We couldn’t avoid some thoughts in the swirl of messaging about that trial up in New York. We were perplexed about the President’s remarks about “I think you […]

(Going around the LawFare clock, starting at upper left, are three “formers:” they are a President, an attorney, and Porn Star, On the line below, left to right, are a current New Jersey Senator, a President’s son and a Texas Congressman. The courtroom circuses of the past week have been diizzying. The players include Mr. […]