crisis on top of
crisis – crises cheaper
when you buy in bulk
I started this blog and daily haiku as a salute to words, usage and the English language.
That it has turned into my rant platform over the current state of affairs, political and otherwise in this country is not my plan nor my fault.
I just want to say that I start each day looking for that bit of unique wordplay in life that makes me want to say something about the writers writing.
That this often turns into a political rant … well, I guess that is where the best writing is going these days.
Like something close to what Michael Corelone said, “… every time I think I am out, they keep pulling me back.“
And as Will Rogers said, “All I know is what I read in the papers.”
That being said, I read in the paper this morning:
The USA is in a political crisis layered on top of an economic crisis, which itself has needlessly exacerbated an already dire cost-of-living crisis.
The idea that the answer to a single part of this horror show is to bring back a morally degenerate financial incontinent who broke his own laws is something that tells you everything about the terminal sad-sacks who are so much as thinking of it.
The formal investigation into the last truth-aborting period in office is about to begin; if it ends up censuring someone for misleading Congress on January 6, as is perfectly likely, then we’d be in a constitutional crisis too.
Maybe crises are cheaper when you buy in bulk.
So I lied.
I didn’t read this this morning.
What I read was the article, Tories on their knees – and here comes Boris Johnson. Dear reader, look away by Marina Hyde this morning in the Guardian.
What she said was:
The UK is in a political crisis layered on top of an economic crisis, which itself has needlessly exacerbated an already dire cost-of-living crisis. The idea that the answer to a single part of this horror show is to bring back a morally degenerate financial incontinent who broke his own laws is something that tells you everything about the terminal sad-sacks who are so much as thinking of it. The formal parliamentary investigation into Johnson’s last truth-aborting period in office is about to begin; if it ends up censuring him for misleading parliament over the No 10 lockdown parties, as is perfectly likely, then we’d be in a constitutional crisis too. Maybe crises are cheaper when you buy in bulk.
I changed a few nouns to adjust for Greenwich Mean Time and there we are on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
It was Oscar Wilde who wrote, “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
I think of how in my parents time, the two countries shared Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
It’s just not fair.
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