somewhere beneath the sea

Beagles you are the only one, possibly in the western world, who thought impeachment might not happen so it is no big deal,  The senate will acquit.  There was some talk that Trump wanted a circus, but he has quieted down, though he may change his mind tomorrow.  The real object, the 2020 elections will decide and if the polls continue the way they are going it will not be good news.

I had lost track of what was going on after the committee voted to impeach.  Then they had some kind of hearings, then they had the impeachment vote.  All of these involved long long sequences where everybody in the fucking house got up to speak, and there were only so many things to say so they repeated themselves endlessly.  If I were in charge I would have had each dem just lay out in proven detail what went out with withholding aid to Ukraine, the same simple two paragraphs that drive the point home so clearly.  But maybe they thought that that would be too boring, so they went on, with just stuff.  Perhaps they were influenced  by their far more colorful counterparts the reps.  They had more things to say because they often went off subject into things like how the dems were traitors and how wonderful Donald was, but still there weren't that many different things so they tried to compete with each other for Donald's ear with histrionics, weeping, wailing, gnashing.  Mostly gnashing, anger is the mother's milk of the party of Trump.

And for all this nature is never spent
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things
And though the last light off the black West went
Oh morning at the brown brink eastward springs - 
                                        - G M Hopkins

Down at the end of my cable dial there are a few channels, Science, NatGeo, and Smithsonian, who despite their high toned names usually show the usual crap, you know about space aliens, but sometimes they come through.  The other night one of them had a lovely show about the moons of Saturn, so far from the madness of earth.  Inspiring.  Last night one of them had a show about the evolution of various animals and the one that struck me was the one about whales.

They were just long-snouted doglike animals rooting around the seashore for fish and small animals, and I guess they just became more fond of the surf than the turf and their nose went to the top of their heads their legs became fins, stuff like that and then they were of the sea, but then some of them who went to sea developed baleen, which is where your teeth become like a comb and you just cruise through krill, and when you do that you can go deep, deep beyond the continental shelf, deep beneath the surface, oh and you grow huge, huge. 

One of the things we admire about the animals of the wild is that they never have to go to work, but orcas and their related small whales have to hunt, which is a sort of work, but baleen whales they just cruise following their mysterious paths.  Because their bodies are huge so are their brains, and what do they think when they are one with the sea eating the sea?

 I have to learn more about them.