Dog Days of Summer.

Traditionally, this is the funny feature story time in the slow news media.  When Washington takes off from the swamplands, the wealthy are enjoying relaxation away from their work worlds, and the news stories slow...

Something funny is happening in the country now though.

The Washington media is hyperventilating, chasing their tails over the Russia-gate stories that they are certain are the downfall of Team Trump.   The incriminating emails!  The meeting!  The inconsistencies that grow daily -- how many people were in the room?  Do translators count as people, or as extensions of the people they are translating for?  Who are the lobbyists, who was here on visas, and who let the Russians in?  (woof -- woof-woof!)

The Washington media would be surprised to learn that the rest of the country does not share their enthusiasm for running around in the heat, and coming up empty.  Not when there are real news stories, abounding out in the real world...

Illinois is going bankrupt.
Who will bail them out?

Obamacare limps along,
sick but not dead, the politicians
unwilling to perform a mercy killing
for the good of the host body...

Meanwhile in Minneapolis,
we might soon see a police officer convicted in this country for unlawfully shooting a civilian. (The blue brotherhood does not seem to be circling ranks around this fellow officer.)

Those are news stories.  Even in teh dog days of summer.
Who met who for 20 minutes in some nefarious spying action which still has not turned up any results of wrongdoing... that's a soap opera.

A soap opera that won't end with Hillary Clinton being asked to serve as president, as perhaps some Dreamers wistfully wish, but with a more conservative angry-old-man Washington replacing Team Trump, if it comes to that...

It's a dog's life, but there's plenty of feral still in many of us beasts.
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