2017 – Page 19 – Vic Socotra

July 16, 2017 Vic Socotra

A ROUND FOR MY FRIENDS

Editor’s note: this is a re-post of a 1979 article based on a special request from a distinguished colleague who remembers when this stuff was actually true. If you can’t see the intrinsic respect in this for the people of the Republic of the Philippines, I failed to convey exactly how close and intimate our […]

July 15, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: To Serve Man

I have been reading several millennial-written alt-newspaper articles that literally gush over the benefits of the impending tsunamis of driver less short term rental and taxi vehicles that will crash over us during the next ten years. They cite things like less pollution, global chilling, a 5% increase ($1 trillion) in freed up annual disposable […]

July 13, 2017 Vic Socotra

No Night to Get Cute

Editor’s Note: Yeah, I know this is basically recycled, but I am only now coming to grips with the idea that the decade of Willow is well and truly past. There was a sense of family there, and I will always miss it. I had an interesting chat on Monday with one of the major […]

July 13, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Hunt Them All Down

Yet another trio of senseless gang related murders occurred just after Savannah’s July 4th celebrations were winding down a bit after midnight on the 5th. Among the dead were two of the three gang member killers and a well liked local service industry worker who was an innocent bystander. The targets of this gangland slaying […]

July 12, 2017 Vic Socotra

Postcard From The Swamp #6

The heat index for The Swamp is going to be over 100 degrees today. Sounds like it might be time for everyone to cool off and do something about health care- 20% of the gigantic US economy- and for other people to cease “resisting” whatever it is that so infuriates them. Just an opinion here, […]

July 12, 2017 Vic Socotra

Editor’s Note: I felt like I was going to be one of them recently. Thankfully on the mend. Life is good. Live it while you have it. – Vic Author’s note: Thanks to my readers who submitted many of these additions. Marlow Taxpayer: “I’m spending this year dead for tax purposes.” Voltaire: “To the living […]

July 12, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: North Korea is a real problem; maybe China can help?

On July 4th Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s autocrat, watched his engineers launch a missile into the Sea of Japan. Shot in a ‘high loft trajectory,” the rocket flew about 600 down range but rose more than 1700 miles. This trajectory, if flattened out (like a baseball player hitting a “pop-up” versus hitting a shallower […]

July 11, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Nothing’s Crazier Than DC

Editor’s Note: I have had a couple health adventures over the last week but think we have identified the problem and are moving out swiftly to remedy it. I met with a Russian Attorney, so what could possibly go wrong? Hope to resume my usual drivel here shortly- and certainly in time for tomorrow’s Post […]

July 7, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: All My Friends Are Dead Or Dying

Editor’s Note: I love the way Marlow thinks. – Vic I saw and quickly read the short satirical children’s book for adults at a Beaufort SC book store this week. All My Friends Are Dead was a dark humor version of the short, sweet children’s books that were popular 20 years ago. Thus amused, the […]

July 6, 2017 Vic Socotra

From the Goat Locker

Editor’s Note: The Goat Locker is where the Navy and Coast Guard Chiefs hang out on naval ships or revenue cutters underway. It is an honor (or horror) to be invited there, depending on your rank. But we all know who runs this complex business. And they always have. This is from my retired Master […]

Year: 2017