It's a busy time. I ran into an
undergraduate today, selling me
a half pound of Sulawesi coffee,
and remarked to her that I was
wondering what the tsunami will
mean for obtaining this excellent
varietal. She hadn't heard about
the thousand or more dead and the
humanitarian crisis, so to put it
into perspective, I reminisced on
losing Jamaican Blue Mountain cof-
fee after the hurricane; but she
hadn't heard of that event, and
possibly not of Jamaica. The oc-
casion illuminates the facility
with which the President can an-
nounce his aides' salvaging of
NAFTA, as modified two years ago
in the TPP that he trashed in his
first week, as a personal triumph:
"Who knew?"
This week he proposes to woodshed
the Deputy Attorney-General, and
elevate an exposed liar-zealot to
the Supreme Court - the one, be-
cause he believes in the rule of
law, the other because he believes
it does not extend to a President.
In consolation, we know his baby-
sitters are on the job, mopping
up after his worst debaucheries
against international relations
and the global climate. But will
they leave us without our law?
Franz Kline
1960
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