Author: Vic Socotra

What to Expect

The GOP managed to get us going yesterday. We enjoyed the Nancy Pelosi Speaker show while it lasted. She had an imperious twinge to her reign that had an element of imperious rule to it. We enjoy spectacle and it is hard to argue that her tenure did not have it. What was surprising is […]

Patient Zero

We had one Writer’s Section participant who was willing to talk about what happened to him, personally. That would be our Patient Zero- “PZ,” if you don’t mind. We are happy there were no other reported reactions to the vaccines, at least on The Patio, so there is the possibility that the events on PZ […]

In a Crowded Theater

This was a big morning. We lost the story! We vividly recall seeing several paragraphs of expertly crafted opinion about Representative Jamaal Bowman and his adventure with the House of Representatives fire alarm system. We wanted to highlight the the rest of the story, which was that Congressman Bowman allegedly had pulled the fire alarm […]

Patient Zero

We are not giving up on trying to account for the unaccountable events of the day. One of them was the proposal to appoint HRH Meghan Markel to the US Senate. So, things are getting a bit confusing. Senator Feinstein has had no change in circumstance, and we are uncertain what impact her absence might […]

Despite the Shut-Down, Dinner Was Great!

If you were looking for some thrilling medical adventures and a chance to meet our small version of the Covid contagion in Patient Zero. We extend our apologies. We were aware there was a continuing budget problem as we juggled the production schedule. We want to avoid crisis saturation. Let’s just take a quick stroll […]

A Case In Point

We took a break for the weekly Weather Report yesterday, so this is a lurch back to part three on the subject of Medical Adventures. We have tried to frame some of the disparate events as a spectrum of medical process involving all sorts of people, from the White House in two Administrations, Dr. Fauci […]

Breaking News: A Lady Passes

Senator Dianne Feinstein Dead at 90 California governor Gavin Newsom will appoint her … READ MORE We will keep this note short and respectful to the memory of a woman who cut a wide swath through the political chaos of the time in which she lived and served. There is no urgency in recounting her […]

Debates and Distributed Disasters

There was some debate last night. The festivities started at nine last night, ESTand thus was past the bedtime of many of us here on the East Coast. Simi Valley, California, was the local and drove the timing at the splendid Reagan Library with the former President’s jet occupying art of center stage. We will […]

WHO Goes There?

You know how crazy this is. The headlines this morning are filled with news about the Asian Games, the largest ever held with 45 member states sending delegations. These are the ones being conducted with 12,000 athletic competitors at a lotus-shaped mega stadium that can hold 89,000 in Hangzhou. They were opened last Saturday by […]

Medical Adventures

We have tried to keep this quiet, since none of us need the potential repercussions from making wild assertions about things we do not have the educational certification to validate. We are also not going to claim anything about medical topics like widespread infections or unintended consequences. What does occur to us is that we […]