Florence is wreaking her havoc on the Carolinas and Mangkhut is slamming the Phillipines while cable news thrill-seeking anchors demonstrate, in round-the-clock reportage, just how stupid it is to stand outside in the middle of a deadly storm, (or, perhaps they’ve taken the “anchor” title too literally).  Meanwhile, back in the shit storm of Washington, DC, Paul Manafort has become the latest of Trump’s bad boys to plead guilty and cooperate with the Mueller investigation to partially save his corrupt, ostrich-covered ass.  I’ve lost count, and my abacas, (a heavy tariff parts issue, I’m told), is still in the shop, but I’m going to say, that the total of Trump associates who have pled or been found guilty of felonious activity is…all of them.  Do we really need to send a lowly sailor shinnying up the mast to a rickety crow’s nest to look out for the dangerous white whale when he’s obviously blubbering his way through every nook and cranny of our lives?  Haven’t there been enough shouts of, “Thar he blows!”, only to have them settle on the deaf ears of a la-la-la-ing Republican Congress? There’s a criminal in the White House! He’s selling off our democracy for personal gain and self-aggrandizement and he is unchecked and unbalanced.  Man the harpoons!