and we have only a week till our great national nightmare either ends or begins, depending on your outlook. (I’m still rooting for SMOD, but will be casting a vote for El Donaldo as the lesser of two weevils. And yes, you must always choose the lesser of two weevils.)
Yeah, I’ve been reading The Books again. Nothing like them for a bit of escapism during the stupid season.
So to recap, it looks like Mr. Comey finally rooted around long enough and found his balls — either that or he released his news last Friday to forestall the news being leaked by the lower echelons, and/or to prevent a mutiny at the FBI (mutiny being one of those things Lucky Jack Aubrey avoided in the volume I just finished, so it’s timely for me). Anyway, it appears that Hillary didn’t have Comey’s cojones in a lockbox, so maybe it’s all good. Guess maybe she might really get the Weiner stuck to her; but will it be enough to lose her the election? One can only hope.
And as if the Apocalypse isn’t already nigh, the lovable stumblebums of Wrigleyville managed to wriggle(y) out of ignominious defeat in five games the other night, and they’ll take it to the Mistake on the Lake to try to even it up. The question now is whether or not they will gum it up. I give them even odds of tying the Series, and then who knows what will happen in game seven, if played. Personally I expect four horsemen to appear in the outfield in the bottom of the ninth, Cubs up one, two outs, nobody on, and strike two called.
I’m somewhat concerned about what the markets are going to do next week. The lady wife and I just crossed a nice milestone in our retirement savings, and all it will take is a Clinton victory to wipe most of it out, I fear. And since Social Security will be wiped out by 2030, a Clinton win doesn’t give us much in the way of retirement income, particularly since I’m sure one of the first things on her list after destroying what’s left of our medical insurance system is to nationalize everybody’s private 401(k).
But I figure at some point this will all be sorted out. Probably with gunfire, tar, feather, rails, and rope. I hope not, but it wouldn’t be the first time we had a revolution in this country.
And you smug Libertarians out there — why do you keep aiming for the top job when you haven’t even begun to fill the lower offices? I mean seriously — what good would it do to elect Gary Johnson (who is not a good candidate, by the way, which is why even in this ballot-load of clowns, he is only polling around 4%) without having Libertarians in statehouses and Congress to back up his program?
It doesn’t do any good to have a Wookie as president if all he can do is hoot and menacingly shake his bowcaster while Congress blocks everything he tries. The hell of it is, if you’d quietly started filling the lower offices thirty years ago, we might be in a position to let the Wookie win.
And that’s all for now.