2017 – Page 17 – Vic Socotra

August 9, 2017 Vic Socotra

Swamp Post Card #10

Yeah- I know. How did it get to be Wednesday so quickly? The news cycle, even in the dog-days of August is so fast and furious that it is exhausting just to drink the morning coffee and see what will have changed by happy hour. I have been more sporadic than usual in publication of […]

August 7, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Strangling Conversations

After another failed attempt to find some meaningful discussion on the Sunday morning news-talk shows, this off-the-cuff parody of Paul Simon’s song Danglng Conversations wrote iteself. In a kind of wised-up New York City way, Simon’s song was about lost love. DC’s a lifeless action hero comic book In a early evening hotel room The […]

August 7, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: Equal Justice

If there’s one idea that encapsulates the goals of the Founding Fathers, it’s this: Equal Justice. A responsive government that worked – literally and figuratively – for the citizens, was a means to that real end: a political system wherein everyone – everyone – was treated the same. Last week a Congresswoman opined that Vice […]

August 2, 2017 Vic Socotra

Swamp Post Card #9

Goodness, Gentle Readers, what a strange week! I drove up to Greenfield, Mass, last Thursday afternoon to attend my brother’s wedding. It was a joyful trip, meeting the new family with fabulous weather. My lovely cousins made it up to the event from Florida after perilous adventures in Air Transport, including de-planing a couple times […]

July 31, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: Tell No One

Dean Acheson (President Truman’s Secretary of State) once advised President Kennedy that he – Kennedy – needed to carefully consider when he would use nuclear weapons, and once having established his threshold, he should tell absolutely no one. (Hopefully, every President since then has engaged in that most serious of efforts). There are two key […]

July 29, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: The Country Ain’t Alright (But It Can Fly)

Editor’s Note: Joyful event this afternoon, just west of French King’s Bridge. A wedding for my brother and his soon-to-be-bride. Such a change from the madness back in the District. Marlow nails that one this morning. I hope Kim Chong Un doesn’t mind being below the fold with his latest ICBM. Back to the capital […]

July 28, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Kick Out the Jams

Editor’s Note: I am in a Days Inn motel in western Connecticut- this was as far as I could get on my drive north yesterday due to appalling traffic in New York City. I think this drive marks a tipping point of sorts. For most of my life I never thought a long drive was […]

July 27, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Hollow Men

Editor Note: Traveling. Comms may be spotty. Joyful event in another state. More to follow, I hope. – Vic Hollow Men Author note: I apologize in advance for this piece’s bleakness over the political barrenness in Washington DC. -Marlow Healthcare system — it’s dying, sir. The Hollow Men A trillion more for poor gals and […]

July 26, 2017 Vic Socotra

Postcard From the Swamp #8

Well, you can’t say this is the doldrums here in the soggy bottom of the nation’s Swamp. The President has decided to upgrade us to a “cesspool,” or a “sewer,” whichever is more appealing at the moment. The GOP is at war with itself, and the Dems, bless their hearts, have come up with a […]

July 25, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Skinny Repeal

Author’s note: With mouth agape, I read that the boys and girls in our empire’s capitol city were about to consider approving the discussion of something called skinny repeal. Is that anything akin to “Oui, peal, and oui, place.” Many do not like President Trump But most do not like the DC stuffed shirts We […]

Year: 2017