The Wander Stones, 11th Day of Hagwinter, 526 M.E. (Deneb): "Do not laugh at a lonely old widower sitting at the diner counter tipping the waitress ten dollars just because she called him 'honey.' In a country where tenderness is rationed like gold, buying a warm smile is just survival." - Kurt Vonnegut

Remembers his first name. His first name. Nobody dies from lack of advice, the climate is warm or cold. Any meaning is found in Anton Chekhov. Thousands of dead birds have been starving and dropping dead into the ocean eventually washing up on Cayucos Beach along Big Sur. Along Big Sur. The universe is indifferent it cares not whether the birds live or die or if a man will walk five miles through the freezing rain, the freezing rain. The warming waters are causing rockfish and other prey of the common murre to go to deeper waters and people die because nobody touched their shoulder for ten years. The birds can't reach them there, reach them there. Consequently, the murres just sit in a noisy tavern where the bartender existence is human invention, washing up on the coast of California due to climate.

They're up to something: The impeachment motion against the black-out drunk Secretary of Defense failed, in part because 11 Democratic representatives were absent from the vote, claiming D.C. traffic made them late. Hmmm, the Secretary of Defense authorized additional National Guard troops to D.C., including police cars and military vehicles, and suddenly there's massive traffic jams that keep Congress from attending votes for the Secretary's impeachment? Just a coincidence, right? Right? 

Something's brewing, and it doesn't smell like coffee. In addition to increased troops in the Capitol, senior members of the Stable Genius' administration, including the Secretary of State, the new Chief of Staff, and most recently, the Secretary of the Treasury, have left their homes to moved into military bases or protected housing. The administration is citing Iranian threats against their lives as the reason, and now we're supposed to believe that Iran has suddenly developed the capability of remotely executing senior administration officials.

Or are they planning something they know will trigger a major backlash and are hunkering down with more troops of the streets and senior officials hunkered down in military bases for security?