Category: Marlow: Life & Island Times

Editor’s Note: I felt like I was going to be one of them recently. Thankfully on the mend. Life is good. Live it while you have it. – Vic Author’s note: Thanks to my readers who submitted many of these additions. Marlow Taxpayer: “I’m spending this year dead for tax purposes.” Voltaire: “To the living […]

Life & Island Times: Nothing’s Crazier Than DC

Editor’s Note: I have had a couple health adventures over the last week but think we have identified the problem and are moving out swiftly to remedy it. I met with a Russian Attorney, so what could possibly go wrong? Hope to resume my usual drivel here shortly- and certainly in time for tomorrow’s Post […]

Life & Island Times: All My Friends Are Dead Or Dying

Editor’s Note: I love the way Marlow thinks. – Vic I saw and quickly read the short satirical children’s book for adults at a Beaufort SC book store this week. All My Friends Are Dead was a dark humor version of the short, sweet children’s books that were popular 20 years ago. Thus amused, the […]

Life & Island Times: I Went to a Party

Author’s note: Since returning yesterday from my third and youngest grandchild’s high school graduation in northern Indiana, I have been thinking and researching a piece on the capitol beltway’s little emperor class and the self serving drama piece they are performing for us. Fortunately, a blast for the past and Noel Coward came to my […]

Life & Island Times: Seen Around Savannah

Editor’s Note: This morning, Marlow touches on some of the things that make this great, chaotic, wonderful nation unique. Enjoy your 4th! The Parade in Culpeper starts at 4:00 PM! Fireworks to follow at the park! – Vic I am no scientist, just an interested observer. I am exploring our new neighborhood in Savannah much […]

Life & Island Times: History 3.0

July 2 2017 With the advent of Amazon and Google enabling fast searches of digitized books and periodicals and early Version 1.0 social media tracking of every errant thought, photo and text back in the early 21st century (I date this back to before Facebook – somewhere in 2002 and 2003), we entered History 2.0. […]

Life & Island Times: War is Over

Author’s note: Breaking news on the back pages of today’s morning newspapers says the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee voted in a bipartisan fashion yesterday to rescind the 2001 authorization for the use of military force that underlays much of the past 16 years of American warring. The ostensible reason for this was reported […]

Life & Island Times: Hellhound Blues

Author’s note: Just when I didn’t think it could get any weirder, voters have started telling their representatives to stop with all the Russian stuff and start legislating and our imperial city’s newspaper details a long story on the Russian’s two year campaign to hack the 2016 American presidential election in which one prior administration […]

Life & Island Times: Failure to Communicate

Editor’s Note: Yep. it is getting this nuts. – Vic Failure to Communicate Author’s note: I was bemused yesterday when I heard the former DHS Director remark in an aside that the FBI Director (and those of National Intelligence, the CIA and the NSA) didn’t share with him or his intelligence folks for months during […]

Life & Island Times: My Give a Damn’s Busted

Editor’s Note: It was an interesting day. I think I will go for a swim. – Vic Author’s Note: During a morning when I couldn’t decide between Comey-tose and Comey-geddon, I penned this. Marlow My Give a Damn’s Busted Well they filled up my head With so many lies Then twisted my heart ‘Til something […]