You don’t have to open up the copy of the ancient history that showed up in the mail yesterday. I assumed it was a medical bill, since the medical/pharmaceutical industry is sending all sorts of pieces of paper with preposterously large numbers on them. They pass almost without comment, and this was fairly modest as […]

(Here, the Navy’s Aviation Cadets- the AvCads- are planning for their final exercise in aerial navigation in 1944 before graduation and award of their Wings of Gold). Morning, Gentle Readers! Splash brought out some ancient pictures this morning and plopped them down under the high cirrus clouds streaking the pale optimistic blue of heaven.. The […]

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 […]

(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, 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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]