OK. Memorial Day is coming up shortly and the grilling season in Fairfax will be underway. That makes a challenge here for Socotra house, since the Galley off the Conference Room is inadequate ventilation. But come Summer we will be ready with propane power and the Russel range cooktop we keep in the back of […]

SECWAR Hegseth was down in Norfolk yesterday to meet the 5,000 members of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) Strike Group that returned yesterday, completing a record-breaking 326-day deployment. The group conducted successful combat operations in two continents and four crossings of the Atlantic Ocean. That makes it sort of personal, since one of our […]

Morning, Gang! What a dynamite Saturday! Skies are brilliant blue and the sun a blazing bright orb that has slowly inched past the lower right corner of the giant plate glass windows of the 4th Floor Conference Room at the Trillium office/residential/retail complex. We had the company national conference yesterday that started things rolling in […]

This is almost too much for those Boomers at the table to comprehend. With an average age spanning 70 to 85, they bring long memories to the 4th Floor Conference Room at the Socotra House Creative Section. Somewhere deep in their collective recollections was being a teenager when the evil dictator Batista—whose two periods of […]

(DR. Anthony Fauci (L) and that Institute Currently In The News (CITN) (R). Did you follow this one yesterday? A career CIA analyst was trundled up in front of a Congressional panel to see if Doctor Tony Fauci participated in a cover-up of laboratory work he had funded at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in […]

This is an attempt to resurrect a fellow who may or may not be alive today. We are pretty sure the guy who drew the original pencil portrait at Naval Air Station Bunker Hill in Spring of 1944. It was in a sheaf of drawings he did of someof the young men who were preparing […]

Don’t get us wrong. We were comfortable with the President’s brief remarks this morning disparaging the Iranian response to his offerings of peace from late last week. He says the Cease-Fire in the conflict is on life support, and wonders what it will take to bring the lunatics to an agreement. Which according to the […]

“Hi! I don’t know how it got to be the heart of the cooking hour this soon after lunch, but that is the way things go around here.” Deirdre put down her spatula with a thump on the counter. “I am supposed to do something like a good will gesture that the Chairman can take […]

We had the Iranian response to the American 14-point proposal yesterday. That was judged unacceptable by Mr. Trump ,and he said so in no uncertain blunt terms. The pundit analysis that followed contained the messaging streams in play. The one this morning is that the Iranian response had contained a provision for a 30-day period […]

Sunday post on Truth Social. “Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!),” Trump wrote. “For 47 years the Iranians have been ’tapping’ us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 […]