Like rats abandoning ship

McTurtle stepping down as house minority, 

Peelousey saying ‘my last term’

Nuland retiring

I think the writing is on the wall, and those that can, are getting clear while the gettings good.

I know its all Kabuki theater, I know it.  NOT watching is not an option these days because to not watch is to get broadsided by something truly nasty later.  

and there are the days where abandoning society and being that wanderer of the world is more and more appealing.

Here Local, we have a couple of ’em.   One, most people call him ‘Johnny Walker’ because the man walks everywhere and at a pace most people would need to jog to keep up with.   His real name is Tim, not sure of his last name.   I’ve met and talked to him a couple of times.  Blew me away the first time as his speaking voice is that of one who spent years in higher ed, not the southern appalachian drawls that need interpretation like most in these hills.   The man is fit as a horse, walks everywhere, has a six-pack stomach.  And everyone thinks he’s crazy as a loon.   I found him to be highly intelligent and coherent.    I think most people do the ‘automatic assumption’ of ‘he’s insane’ because he doesn’t live in THEIR normal.   Sane?    Seems to me we are insane when you watch the ‘news’.

and he doesn’t give a hot damn about the rest of the world or its doings.  Others opinions mean squat.   The man walks so much, the clothes on his back will wear away to rags, and he doesn’t care.  (in that sense, yeah, he’s a little off center since he will wear the same clothes until they are literal rags billowing in the breeze.)

BUT, he’s happy in his little niche at the bottom of the world.  

And I dunno where I was going with this,,,,   more later