Port Call Al-Iskandariya, 1990 Downsizing is an interesting evolution. We are in the process at the moment. Looking through the different old directories stacked up in the computer was interesting in attempting unscramble the past. Part of it is a numbers thing. Did we make all 50 States? How many nations? And was it six […]

…(( Behind us as the ruling party, all Party members and cadres must really imbibe morality, really need integrity, impartial work, must keep our party clean, must preserve our party in books, must conflict with the party being a healthy person of the people…)) Ho-Chi Minh We would expect nothing else, of course. But the […]

(Easter Baskets aligned. Delightful Carrot Cake prepared. Today’s observance underway!) The Legal guys told us we could go back to casual commentary regarding religion just as soon as things cool down a little on the litigation front. Just a precaution, they say, but they note the tide of stuff rising around us. We respectfully demure […]

This is part of the ‘immersion theme’ we have been musing about in modern social behavior. It parallels another social aspect of what we call “weaponized advertising.” Both terms are still a little experimental. Both include other large impact areas, some completely incidental and others now harnessed in ways not previously exploited. That occurred to […]

There is some junk in the system. Some of it was junk when entered, other parts have achieved that status through age. We are not apologizing about that. Socotra House readers are familiar that characteristic of our production. Our archives recently have become a curious jumble of hidden masses of digits. They have transitioned through […]

It is Good Friday today, and with some minor chaos we will attend to a scheduled medical mystery of our own. It has been scheduled for weeks, so there is no spiritual surprise. Just minor confusion in automotive direction. Holy Week was always a great one for walking in Washington. This season has turned, finally, […]

We could start with reports of the hundred rockets fired at Israel from Lebanon to contribute to the Passover season. But that sort of thing has become a sort of tradition. Here is the jumble of other reporting on a week transitioning to Spring. – Vic It is past the tipping point this week, so […]

  We attempted to stay awake for the address by a former Chief Executive. Sadly, we only made it to the Tucker Carlson fifteen-minute lead-up to the surprisingly contained and focused remarks by the former Chief Official of the United States Government. The new sleeping Gummies that Splash contributed earlier may have contributed to our […]

(Fair Use of the term in Lo-Res for identification of a re-purposed National Holiday named “Bloomeroo 2023!” with the year planned for annual updating). You can imagine the hub-bub around the patio on a Spring day with all sorts of stuff flying around. There is the legal event up north in New York today, and […]

There is a certain vibrancy in the air enhanced by a dramatic Spring transition. We missed the Bloomeroo across the river that features art and pyrotechnic welcome to the fresh green season. Add the religious holiday week and it is an upbeat time, despite the welter of narrative beats. The Bloomeroo is a new event […]