Author: Vic Socotra

From Nine to Eight

We could go a couple of directions this morning. The New York Real Estate ruling against a former Chief Executive has a lot of folks consternated, since no one in the jury-less trial would have stipulated a fine near a half-billion dollars and intended only to penalize the presumptive nominee in an election year. That […]

Fruit of a Crazy Week

(This image was created as a template for a patch intended to commemorate the large annual military exercise in the Korean Republic. It was known as “Team Spirit,” and is still vigorously conducted, partly as a reasonable preparation and partly as a declaration of earnest will to the Current Kim to the north. The artist […]

Sheriff Jones of Butler County

(Sheriff Jones of Butler County, OH, as depicted by DCclothesline.com. Opinions expressed in this piece do not necessarily represent those of Socotra House LLC or independent content contributors). Sheriff Richard K. Jones is a Boomer from Butler County, Ohio. Some of us have been attempting to retrieve some of our Ohio heritage, something that has […]

A Day in February

Morning- or afternoon!- from here in Arlington, Virginia. We are entertaining, hosting a luncheon here in Big Pink. Accordingly, we won’t talk about the special election in New York to replace that Soros fellow. We will not mention the big Russian landing ship the Ukrainians put under water off a former piece of their country […]

(Are You Ready For) Fat Tuesday?!

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Arrias: Shake Up at Two Years

As I’m sure you know, two years into the war President Zelenskyy just dismissed his senior general and is calling for a new strategy. What might that mean? Begin at the beginning: Russia invaded on as poor a net assessment of the enemy as can be imagined. It was as far off as Hannibal’s assessment […]

Bookends at the Bowl

Views expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of Socotra House LLC management or independent contracting staff. It should not be relied upon for legal, medical, political or financial counsel unless you take the same chances as the rest of us. So, was the six-thirty kick-off at the Big Game an acknowledgment that […]

Super Something

We spent the first twenty minutes of the always abbreviated Sunday Staff Meeting trying to figure out the single most important event of a drizzling Sunday. No, it wasn’t about trying to figure out where the moisture was coming from. It might be the remnants of the big Vortex in the jet stream that deluged […]

Iconology

We went direct to overload this morning. There was a series of unlikely events that came to full-boil yesterday. There are at least two wars in progress, in “U – – – – – e” and “G – – a,” and we may be in another in the R – d S – a. You […]

A Well-Meaning Chyron

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