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“Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.” Many dragons would not be inclined to hold a conversation with a human and then allow that human to depart to tell other humans about it.

Cats and dogs get antagonistic not because one is a cat and another is a dog, but because they are strangers/invaders to one another. Cats and dogs who are raised together in a home get along quite well.

What worries me is that no matter how he dies, even if it was a stroke, the nutjobs will scream that it was somehow an assassination (e.g. if he has a stroke, then the “deep state woke people” somehow gave him a drug to cause it), and a sizable fraction of his base will believe such claims.

Better than being puked up.

Let’s not forget that it’s still only early in March in the story—there are about three months remaining until graduation.

A good comparison would be the “Robber Barons” on the Rhine River in centuries past, who would place barricades across the river to block any traffic until each vessel paid tolls. And there were dozens of such petty nobles doing this, each with their separate barricade. It eventually got so bad that the Rhine stopped being a viable route for shipping. That is what happens when there are too many unregulated fingers in a single pie. In short, we don’t want lots of small road-owners each placing their own fees such that we have to pay a hundred charges in order to cross the country. Instead, we would want nation-spanning “Road Corporations”, akin to rail or air travel, where you could cross the continent on a single company’s system, while having the choice between a few competing systems for reaching most major destinations. Of course, that brings on the same sort of regulatory issues that apply to railroads.

Sadly, a huge chunk of people have made it a part of their ideological identity to be against anything that their opponents are for—if anything is “woke” or “socialist”, then they will oppose it, no matter how much it might otherwise benefit them personally to support it. This is where we get people who are on Social Security and Medicare who vote to reduce their own benefits.

They used to, but then they discovered money.

As catapult fodder, their only purpose was to slow down any invaders in order to buy more time for the Big Boss. The heroes will reach him either in the nick of time, or just barely too late.

That must be why the Russians are pulling their old amphibious APCs out of mothballs.

I was thinking of the other Pygmalion. But who will be Eliza Doolittle?

I have not attended 27 Salty Crackers tournaments, so I cannot say.

I found Spaceballs to be amusing, if slightly juvenile.

Embarrassed by the audience all gazing at her giant hottie of a girlfriend, perhaps?

As Mel Brooks said, “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” It’s only funny when it happens to someone else.