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September 16, 2023 Vic Socotra

Legal Legerdemain

We have some strange stuff going on in the current Legal Circus. It is an entertaining show, since the performers are engaged directly in the struggle for the Oval Office. That will drag on through next November. Not the month around the corner, mind you. The one after that (by year). Part of the excitement […]

September 15, 2023 Vic Socotra

RUE DE L A CHON

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I was writing to a squadron buddy 43 years ago. I was stuck in a Snake Ranch, the term used for officer housing at the Yongsan Garrison in Seoul, Korea. It is an odd letter, transferred in some ancient Word format via Government Xerox machines a couple times and then tucked away someplace […]

September 15, 2023 Vic Socotra

Arrias and His Muse: Fall Is Come

A distant moan, a growl, the treetops shake, A rafter of turkeys wander out of the trees, Pecking through the grass, feathers ruffled in the breeze, Dawn approaches, the Dismal Swamp awakes. The deer disappear, under the still-green leaf, Fat they’ve all grown through summer’s dog days, Soon trees’ will be dressed in a multi-hued […]

September 14, 2023 Vic Socotra

Seasonal Transition

So, here we are in the season of transition. It is still hotter than hell in afternoon when the sun cuts the arc over the parking lot at Big Pink. It bathes the western-facing units on the north-south wings by the Big Road with warmth and light. It also brings up the prognosis for what […]

September 13, 2023 Vic Socotra

H-Day

We both got it right this morning! We guessed and got lucky after the confusion of the recent Short Week caused by Labor Day in which we didn’t. Labor, that is. This morning we are awake at the same time and relatively certain as to what day it is! That is a challenge sometimes, since […]

September 12, 2023 Vic Socotra

The Gee Twenty

We could feel the heat rising in the eternal campaign this morning. There was the fall-out from one of the efforts to secure the most powerful office in the land. There is talk of impeachment abroad and ashore and more entertaining antics as our current President spent some time at the G20 conference. There is […]

September 11, 2023 Vic Socotra

Arrias:  Indiana Jones, ATACMS, and the National Debt

There is a great scene in “the Raiders of the Lost Ark” in which Indiana Jones jumps on a horse to chase the Nazis in their big Mercedes Benz touring car, and he is asked: “What are you going to do?” Jones answers, in his insouciant, devil-may-care style: “I don’t know, I’m making this up […]

September 10, 2023 Vic Socotra

Sunday, Sunday…

(1966 Album by the Mamas and the Pappas. We have to change the lyrics a bit to adjust to the individual year. AOL, our internet provider, does not want us to be able to insert the image for reasons best known to themselves). So here we are. Sunday! Damn, that was startling. We were humming […]

September 9, 2023 Vic Socotra

Emergency Rule

(New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham). You probably know the theme for this morning just from the title. There had been some indications the Central Government was going to take us back to emergency rule for the next iteration of the COVID pandemic. We got tired of it last time in fairly short order. We […]

September 8, 2023 Vic Socotra

Slow News Day

We are doing some controversy out on The Patio this morning. We do not claim to have any particular insight into what is happening at your place, but one of the major legacy media markets had one of those bottom-screen creeping headlines crawling across the screen announcing it was a slow news day. Placing the […]