Editor’s Note: Marlow contributes this to a wild week, and I found it resonating. I gave a presentation at a business meeting this morning about likely impacts of all this not to the Republic, but to employees planning on committing to work with the prospect of potential street violence. This morning, I said it was […]

Editor’s Note: It is the Fall Back Morning, and a certain jet-lag or all of us is common. Marlow has provided us a perspective on larger issues, which is welcome, like the Oregon health official who gave the weekly COVID briefing in clown-face. The other news is predictable, doubts swirling about the latest hysterical or […]

Editor’s Note: This is Marlow’s take on the last part of the frantic cavalcade that is happening around us. There are 16 days to go in this part of the most amazing election we have had a chance to witness. It is a humorous version on the view conveyed from ancient times and distant places. […]

Editor’s Note: Each day, inching toward one of the several election milestones, I glory in the association of some unrepentant Authors In The Yard. Marlow has a shot at it today. Go, Doctor. – Vic Author’s Note: To lighten our moods and prove that we mechanical pencil pushing Socotra House journalers are not always ill […]

13 October 2020 Editor’s Note: Marlow brings his sense of place and time to these curious dreamscapes approaching the election. It may be an important one, from what I have heard. Certainly there will be more cheerful chaos to come. – Vic Author’s Note: This draft appeared to me in my dreamscapes. I may be […]

Editor’s Note: The northernmost strands of hurricane Beta are wafting gently through this part of the Old Dominion. The wonderful weather that preceded the clouds and deceptive gentle rain had people out and about, almost like normal here in the rural hinterland, which naturally disdains excessive declaration from our state’s governor. I mentioned the one […]

Editor’s Note: Gentle Readers, the skies above this week have changed from the clear and lovely skies welcoming the change of season to something grayer. Below the clouds there was inspiration, captured by neighbor Matt: Thoughts of what these aircraft and pilots confronted is more in keeping with Marlow’s recent musings on the situation that […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow shipped this one to me a couple days ago, admonishing me to use it when the times were right, or something crazy happened. It happened to me last night. I try to stay awake for the Tucker Carlson Show. His commentary is interesting, and I remember enjoying his career from the days […]

Editor’s Note: I was working on “What’s Next,” a jolly attempt to look at what is coming up the tracks to meet us as summer lurches to Fall in this strange year. Instead, Marlow cascaded into my world with this marvelous account of what he terms “Batshittery.” His part o the Coastal Empire seems a […]

Editor’s Note: I was going to muse about the notion of “trust” and some peripheral issues related to public lies this morning. I don’t know about you, but I find myself in a position where I no longer trust anything I hear from anyone. We are apparently supposed to believe in “light” as guidance for […]