James Woods is an actor of some repute and well regarded at this end of the building. He did not have a script for one of the most remarkable things shown on the wall of the Conference room at Socotra HQ last night. . He had a nice place in the path of the Ventura […]

It is cold out there. The incident on the Patio brought Security into the picture. Management has a contract with a local man who provides what the contract specifies a “roving patrol” in the hours of darkness, so there is no specific uniformed presence and there may be justification for additional measures, given the other […]

We are going to actually start the new year when the snow melts here on our version of Cape Guardafui on the Potomac. It is cold enough that what fell on top of what started Monday as ice is now powdery on top and likely to be with us a while. The Creative Section was […]

Well, sort of. It was a general consensus for the people who cycled through the conference table for some of those great small pastries that showed up and the core group that stuck around to run “merge notes” and mash the button. DeMille doesn’t understand platform distribution, so whatever Zoomer might be left gets stuck […]

Nope. No year in review or any of the stuff that would have required the effort to compile some of the astonishing stuff about what will be a pivotal year in a time that will have a name undetermined as yet. It will rival the power of the “Gilded Age” or the “Roaring Twenties” since […]

Socotra House got the news when you did. The reactions to the message were mixed by the age of the ears and the amount of hair over them. And color, if there is any. We could do the general tenor of the response in terms of the American Century, that mythical period since the mid-20th […]

It is a holy morning here in Virginia, and these are some images of a place where sacred events occurred for each of the Three Faiths. In 1990, Vic wanted to see the walls of the first Temple, the Dome of the Rock, and Stones on which the Savior walked among us. A small stone, […]

It’s Christmas Eve’s Eve, so DeMille is attempting to get things wrapped up before things start going all Green and Red and Star-Sparkled tomorrow. There was a trip to the Arrowine Cheese Store over on North Glebe including most of the Creative Section and talk about going south after we heard the talk about the […]

“US Strikes Yemen!” That was what was up on the screen in the Conference Room, boldface, when Splash walked in to rinse out the last of yesterday’s coffee in the squadron mug he uses. “Is this something new?” He looked groggy, apparently not realizing an Aegis cruiser USS Gettysburg had just shot down one of […]

OK, DeMille said we have to go to the big Festive Luncheon and only the words to go to the pictures will work. That is the Solstice, and not shorter or longer, just more of less light. That is from Jim Champagne, RIP. The guy with the paper is Sen. Ran Paul with the budget […]