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“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

FOP or FOPpish?

By PatD, a Trail Mix Contributor

Trail Mixers, which of these friendship songs will be the Cabinet-to-be’s theme song since some, including the President-elect, consider themselves a friend of Putin aka FOP?

  • “With a Little Help From My Friends” – Beatles – 1967
  • “You’ve Got a Friend” – James Taylor – 1971
  • “Thank You for Being a Friend” – Andrew Gold – 1978
  • “Lean On Me” – Bill Withers – 1972

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Camelot It Ain’t Gonna Be

By PatD, a Trail Mix Contributor

True both rich and led lives
Of well-to-do good looking young men
Both with beautiful wives
Handsome family
And ladies on the side.

Both had a connection to the Mob and to Roy Cohn.  Both whose fathers were, shall we say, more autocrat than aristocrat, no way were they blue bloods. And both succeeded to the presidency with the assistance of an adoring press, or at least a media obsessed with them.

But there the parallel tale of the two ends. Do not look for high minded public service to be invoked in this inauguration speech, nor for young people to flock enthusiastically to go to the ends of the earth and out into space to do good for humanity.

No, we are no longer in, nor even near, that simply “more congenial spot for happily ever after than … Camelot”

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Abogados Beware

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

By PatD, a Trail Mix Contributor

What with the violent behavior such as “Donald Trump Supporters Scream Nazi Salute, ‘Light the Motherf–ker On Fire’ at Black Lives Matter Supporter” (described by the wrap from last December) and the shouts of “lock her up” and “execute her” of a similar mob reported by msn last Friday, it’s not inconceivable that their next chant come post-election day (whether they win or lose) will be to do in those who believe in the rule of law and upholding the constitution.

Although “kill all the lawyers” is usually said in jest, these days you can’t be so sure.

Revolutions, insurrections, coups and such have generally begun this way.  Same-o same-o sentiments ran rampant even back when the Bard penned the line and as the wall street journal noted:
The line comes from Shakespeare’s “Henry VI, Part 2” and is spoken by Dick the Butcher, the dopey henchman of rebel leader Jack Cade.
According to the attorneys’ interpretation—one supported by many but not all English scholars—Shakespeare’s point is to portray lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law who stand in the way of a fanatical mob.

It could be argued that Shakespeare was tapping into fears of insurrection and civil unrest among the noble classes. But, he said, the proliferation of lawyers also generated resentment among commoners who couldn’t afford them and viewed them as aligned with the powerful elite.

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