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July 24, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: Moon Man

Editor’s Note: I was on the road again this weekend, and more road confronting me later this week to attend a wedding that affirms my faith in the strength of love, and in a larger sense, the goodness of women and men. So, expect me to be a little erratic on the information stream the […]

July 24, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Musicians on Money and Life

As with almost everyone who is invested in the American stock markets, the past nine months have been a boon. Since everything that goes up must come down, at least a little, I’ve been looking for ways to manage this risk. Listening absent mindlessly to cable TV blues and rock-n-roll channels, I was astonished to […]

July 22, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Scents of Port Calls Past

One of my fellow shipmates wrote of the distinct smell based memories in a piece last week about long ago port call in the Philippines. While I am not an urban smellscape researcher, I was so genuinely struck by his turns of phrase that I started to list the dominant smell memories of the port […]

July 21, 2017 Vic Socotra

Summertime

Whether the living is easy is a matter up for debate. I have to say, in my half century in looking at how our country is doing, I have never been so unsettled. I am one of those who grew up with the certainty of Ike Eisenhower and never thought we could go so far […]

July 21, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Stop Us Before We Innovate Again

Editor’s Note: Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novel was created from a series of eight short stories published in Astounding Magazine between May 1942 and January 1950. It was heady stuff. I found them in a box of science fiction magazines at rummage sale at the Unitarian Church on Woodward Avenue in suburban Detroit where pastor Bob […]

July 19, 2017 Vic Socotra

Postcard From The Swamp #7

Swamp Postcard Yep- it is Wednesday again, and time to update the postcard from The Swamp, where the Deep State appears to have successfully prevented anyone from doing anything to lower the water level. If anything, it seems to be getting deeper…and I don’t mean that as a metaphor. If anyone had set out to […]

July 18, 2017 Vic Socotra

So It Goes

I have been a little slow off the mark the last couple weeks- I know many have noted it and I feel bad. I have been doing this morning blogging thing now for nearly twenty years, and the fodder of of chaos, national and international, in the government and out of it, has been entertaining […]

July 17, 2017 Vic Socotra

Mad Anthony

So, this is what retirement looks like? I looked at myself in the mirror this morning and came away a bit mad at the tousled gray hair. Not mad at myself, or not completely, but at what has become a new reality. Then retreated to the comfort of the comforter and read the morning incoming […]

July 17, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Too Much Time On My Hands

Author’s note: Given the multiple “modern day presidential” tweetapaloozas we have been recently gifted with, today’s piece wrote itself. With deepest apologies to Styx. – Marlow Sittin’ on a White House potty stool Tweetin’ like a damn fool Got the three AM Twitter blues I’ve given up hope for these Republican dopes Senate votes’re only […]