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Every day ... the National- {{Stupid}} manifests like a yellowish fog of Chlorine (or Phosgene) ... the source is usually some new/random place. The stench remains from yesterday's example and reinforces the new inescapable-smell of ... d e t e r i o r a t i o n ... while, all are cautioned to accept that Things Take Time and we must ignore the stenches. Be patient: it might take another Generation. Or two, We've got Lots of time.

This despite the ongoing massive Dis-Interest in planetary matters, amidst the vast listicle of a rotten infrastructure, inhabited by daily increases in the %too-poor ..including [a %Huge of Muricans with $50 or LESS] cash which they might command: for some next emergency.

R. Reich gave a # concerning the increasing-Uncertainty of any "employment" at all, trending to ~40-Percent of working Muricans, within a few years: waiting-for-other-shoe to drop ie. Uncertain that they can count on income at all day-to-day. PTSD: it's not just for the official cannon-fodder of the next dirty little war.

(So who has the time, inclination even to 'register' the emerging factoids re the greenhouse effects of that So-Cal worst US methane leak ever??) amidst the other impending emergencies. And in many locales (like say: Anywhere-in-Texas) any. One. nearby. behaving loony-or-Not: brings The Question: Is S/He Packing Heat? and with the mind of a Cruz, or the attention span and braggadocio of a Trump, to boot?

Be Careful Out There: it's a diseased *shooting gallery just waiting for that elusive 'Safety' to be switched OFF. With the flic of a thumb.


* just today, in Kansas? IIRC at some lawn mower mfg. plant: some dead, some shot up. Randomly. By Y.A.N. employee arriving at shift-change. Becoming now as regular as A Clockwork ..of whatever Color.