“Breaking News!”

From Socotra House LLC! This Just In!

Tuesdays are really the first real contribution to the Weather Report sit-down session. That is where we pick the threads unfolding for their continuity across the end of the week. The goals is to collect the stories with the impact to actually affect the course of social and business life and equip those still in the working harness to keep a little tension on the straps and be ready, just in case.

“Ready for what?” might be a good question. Here is pile of them, ready for the week of exaggeration and absurdity. Is it a supermarket delivery appropriate in view of competing appointments for medical and estate planning functions?

“Dunno.”

“Is he really 81 years old?”

“Who? Do we have enough instant ramen and protein to boil with healthy water? for a couple months?”

“How long to those things last? We try to have a month or two tucked away.”

Breaking:

“So, it looks like Big Pharma might have been fibbing to us…”

“Libertarians charter big sailboat for voyage to Algeria…”

“Is this international victory worth consideration?”

“Of what?”
“64 attacks on US Forces in Iraq and Syria…”

We may be leaning on the domestic issues this week since they affect the international ones. Or maybe it is the other way around.

What we find a little weird is the election-related advertising here in America. In fact, all the advertising is a little off, since the characters are supposed to represent the people you relate to. There are none at the moment, but we recognize the motivation and try to concentrate on other shiny or moving part.

General elections every four years are always emotional, since all the power positions (except SCOTUS robes!) are up for grabs naturally attract more attention than others, but this one, with uncertainty about both frontrunners ability to serve is almost hysterical and the first political party debates- of which we may actually see two streams- are still weeks out with a year to go!

In fact, the fact of that bit of news being included in the Breaking section is just a sample of it all. Senator John Kennedy is a hoot, since we remember when the other JFK was a newsmaker. The JFK active today is from Louisiana, not Massachusetts, which keeps us a little off balance, but he is at least as funny.

We had some news, we swear. If we remember what it was, we will produce evidence!

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Written by Vic Socotra