On Trump and NOAA (Sketches)

When political leaders start arguing with the weather, it’s only a matter of time before the purges begin and we are all sent down country to raise yaks in Yunnan.

Mao Zedong started the Great Leap Forward by arguing with his agronomists about the distance between each planted rice sprout. Using the Great Soviet Science of Lysenkoism, Mao argued that the agronomist’s science was Capitalist Pig-Doggery and that the rice seedlings could be planted even closer together, therefore yielding double the rice crop. He was wrong. The crop failed. One thing lead to another and 50 million Chinese died of famine between 1958 and 1960.

Arguing with Earth Science is probably THE sign your political leaders have gone off the deep end.

Now, on the obverse — “It is impossible to raise good crops and good fighting men” — Herodotus’ Histories.

Once America became a mightily wealthy economy driven by domestic consumption, the soul of the country began to ooze away like melting plastic in a house fire. And now, two generations later, we are left with a population that really doesn’t care that Trump and His Republican Party are bent on destroying the rule of law in order to maintain a Pseudo Christian Hydrocarbon Good Ol’ Boy system that needs to tied into a burlap sack and thrown in a river to drown.