I Can't Keep Up

      It's looking like we're deep into the "Grandpa is crazy, humor him" stage of things, with the U. S. Navy supposedly about to resume building battleships (hello, Billy Mitchell! Hello, Isoroku Yamamoto!), increasingly questionable oil tanker seizures, and the Heritage Fundation shedding senior members, most of them decamping to Mike Pence's no less conservative (but far less willing to wink at Nazis and Nazi-adjacent types) think tank.

     In Imperial Rome, when Emperors went whimsical, it was often a prelude to things getting sporty.  The men who wrote and amended the U. S. Constitution did their very best to build in circuit breakers and spillways intended to keep "interesting times" from becoming a pandemic.  Did they succeed?  Better fasten your seat belt and return all tray tables to the upright and locked position.  The ride's liable to get bumpy.