space cadets a go go

I remember the big Chavez boycotts, though more for grapes than lettuce.  There was a famous Jules Feiffer cartoon where the hippie chick in the grocery store was saying, "Sorry Caesar, but I gotta have a grape." as she popped one into her mouth.  I think Caesar achieved some success in his time, but it is likely all eroded by now.  Hard to see in today's atmosphere the general public being alarmed because a migrant worker from Mexico didn't have a soft bed to rest his weary bones in,

The ironic thing about  that draining the swamp thing, as far as removing corruption from government, is that Washington is way swampier than it has ever been with the leader taking big slices of the pie.  Actually it's almost not corruption anymore because corruption implies something that is undercover.  Any more it is just business as usual.

Proper swamps anymore are called wetlands, We used to have an EPA to protect them but now we have Pruitt.

The most exciting thing about the space force is, as Old Dog has observed, what kind of uniforms they will wear.  Hopefully not those dopey dowdy pajamas of Star Trek, but something with big shiny  shoulder pads and tights, and for the women, short skirts and boots of course.  Which brings to mind why do we have an army. and a navy and an air force, and marines, and coast guard?  And doesn't the navy have it's own planes, and the army its own ships?  Way back it might have made some kind of sense, but anymore aren't they like all those odd taxing districts in a state which could be easily consolidated, but none of the guys that run them want to lose their jobs?

If Beagles thinks separating kids from their parents is simply an efficient way to deal with the little tykes while the folks plead to the rubber hose types for asylum,. I don't believe he is reading much news past the headlines, particularly the part where Sessions and Trump brag, in that manly way they have, that the purpose is to discourage immigration.  One wag has asked why don't they just burn the kids alive in front of their parents?  Surely that would discourage immigration.  I can imagine Trump and Sessions stroking their chins.

But I am not so sure about my predictions of Trump's demise.  Just last night he showed signs of pivoting something he hasn't done since the days when he had handlers to keep him in line.  But will that take after his late night pillow talks with Hannity?  Only time will tell.

Yesterday CNN was aflame with the separation thing, but when I tuned in Fox was showing congressional hearings where they didn't bother to grill witnesses against Trump, but now are a house on fire about locking her up.  Later that day I saw Donald complaining about  how CNN was making trouble showing crying babies while the real news was how crooked Hillary was.  As far as he is concerned cable news is what governing is all about.

Here's something I came across in the funny papers which reminded me of an issue Old Dog brought up a week or two ago.