I’ve begun and stopped a couple blog posts since Trump was re-elected: We’re in that twilight time, that time when the thought of a man like Trump being president sounds reasonable. Before he becomes the news again and everyone is reminded about exactly how fucked up and stupid he is. Seriously, Trump people, what the fuck was so great about his handling of Covid the first time he was president? Is Anthony Fauci still the bad guy? We’ll get all caught up in the insanity real soon, kiddies, and I apologize for the f-bombs but all bets are off now that he’s (gulp) president (again*). The last time Trump was elected, I compared him to Benito Mussolini, so this time around, let’s go with Napoleon, so we begin our voyage in the remotest place on Earth: Saint Helena Island. Not really, but when the English stuck the dictator there after his Waterloo, at least that was the most remote place in the British Empire. Do you know anything else about St. Helena Island? Perhaps you know about the nearly 10,000 remains of enslaved persons unfortunately discovered while constructing the new airport road? BTW, if I can fly to St. Helena now in 4 hours, can it even be called remote anymore? The new airport is a hellacious landing for pilots, the black basalt island jutting up from an old volcano on the floor of the south Atlantic Ocean is a nice place to visit, but very few Australian and Dutch emigres actually want to live there.

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