Sitting Here In Limbo -OR- Click,? Nope, Click? Nope

This interlude is brought to us by Parkinson's Law Of Triviality aka Theater of the ABSURD

While I would dearly love to think that in a few hours more than two weeks someone will flip the switch and the focus will be squarely on the formidable challenges multi-front siege of clusterfucks arrayed before us. That there will be a intellectual SURGE that will shred the facade of business as usual, get back to basics and tackle a few of the larger issues affecting our lives. NOT GONNA HAPPEN. Not on day one or even year one. Forget about not setting pre-conditions to meet with foreign leaders. The demands, riders and codicils that are piling up, just for our individual DOMESTIC caucuses to meet, will stall any meaningful change of direction.

Our intrepid media watchdogs will be curled up at their true masters' feet while they present us with the intricacies of tacking against formidable winds. They will dissect the exchanges, discussions and nuanced subtleties between idealogues representing all the varied interests save one. The two-year mantra of fighting for the little guy will give way to calls for trust and patience and understanding that our problems can't be solved in big ways. It will take a million little manuvers over a glacial time-frame to make us forget our problems. shoo us away. tamp discontent back down to an acceptable level. That will be job one.

The gauntlet was tossed down. The challenge issued. Millions believed and millions more bet on the longshot. That oughta do it. eh? The media do love their sidebars and distractions. Teetering on the brink of the financial, societal and all them -als abyss isn't gripping enough to feed the beast. Folks seem to like the non-stop distractions we offer. Not enough scandal, scintillation or back-stabbing? Book more wingnuts to lob incendiary verbiage at each other. Sure they are wrong about absolutely everything but it's never dull like fixing the shit that needs fixing n' stuff.

"All for the best in this best of all possible worlds"