Mallory's Camera

Yesterday was the second-most beautiful day in the history of the universe.

The most beautiful day?

Why today, of course.

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In this country, we are all kinda sitting on the edge of a precipice. Grocery store shelves are still full, but the great China-facing ports like Long Beach & Oakland are empty, the giant gantry cranes (after which George Lucas modeled the Imperial Walkers in Star Wars) sit motionless.

I am guessing we are about 10 days away from panic-inducing shortages.

It'll start with toilet paper.

Because for some reason, it always starts with toilet paper!

Not sure how this is gonna affect moi. I can survive very nicely on beans & rice, except if there isn't any rice (because we import it all from China) & there aren't any beans (those come from China, too. And Africa), I'm not sure what my imaginary Sustenance in Times of Privitation diet should be.

Plus, there's the added absurdity that one must continue on with one's life as though none of this is happening. Business as usual! Because it hasn't happened yet.

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I note one beneficial effect of Trump's total assholery: Carney & the Liberals won in Canada.

I quite like Carney! The whispers on the street is that it was Carney who was behind the great American T-bill sell-off. He did it in closed-door sessions with Japanese & European leaders. Really, really smart move.

Meanwhile, fuckin' Trump is so obviously in the mid-stages of dementia that I wonder how any of his keepers underlings can keep a straight face.

Yesterday, he issued an executive order that henceforth, Columbus Day... is Columbus Day!

Today he decreed that truck drivers may only speak English!

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Meanwhile, I'm gonna hammer out 1,500 words or so of Remunerative prose & then toddle out to weed the other half of the garden.

(I just blew my topsoil budget on a GoFundMe donation for croneitude, who has been diagnosed with a singularly awful-sounding autoimmune disease. But I gotta figure that those Reichstag wheelbarrels filled with paper money are a renewable resource, right?)