Trump-onomics 101

It took Trump less than one year but it looks as if the U.S. economy is already going off the rails after he inherited one of the strongest markets in a while, thanks to Obama rescuing capitalism from the depths of a financial meltdown which Bush ignored until it was too late.

As we come to understand the debt crisis which his tax cut for billionaires is bringing on, a recession is surely in America’s near future. Just about what you would expect when you put a reality TV chimp in the White House.

Death Under the Big Top

The circus is in town which usually means that there is more than one circus in the city competing for an audience. They plaster their posters side-by-side on every construction site wall and on every abandoned building. I’m absolutely certain that somewhere, at some time there was a gang fight between circuses.

This is obviously something that has been going on for ages. One ringleader will howl at his counterpart from the other circus, “This town isn’t big enough for two circuses!” Why would the term “ringleader” become a synonym for crime boss if this weren’t true?

Today, circuses settle their hatred of one another with a single epic battle, with each big-top sending a champion to represent their clan. Earlier this week in Valencia, a fight ended tragically in the death of the bearded lady from the Europe Circus. Her competitor from Alaska Circus, a midget who juggles swords, made short work of it. No pun intended, at least it wasn’t until I drew to the close of that last sentence and I'd already written it, but it's not like a pun could drag this little essay down any lower.