Jimmy Carter joined the Pony Express, and another at his own indolent place lazing on the tracks in his cap and shirtsleeves; the proverbial contramanding: preventing, then showing anew the light unto its hidden stores of Duke's mayonnaise, le couture.
Singular locusts are in fact nothing, each unto himself, but in combination, the totality of the hungry insects clattering indolent wings, as in the Michael Crichton novel Prey, the being is a nested doll noxious density of cabbage-pantied hairspray cloud.
Was found not the faults in our stars, the cabal, perturbing much ado, dispute, repute taking the guise of dispute, and the like, and where Monticello sightlessly-peered into its own dustcloud, there was yet a George Sale ascribed Quran, instead of Judge Judy and folded dollars. The trivial melds into the trivia of a cabal that was not discouraged businessmen but its antithesis of would be Joan of Arcs atwitter, sparing themselves the stick, and like the curs they are, rusing their captors into the flame. Ascribed upon his character his reading materials, of course, and not the learning of many subjects for learning's own appetites to be fulfilled: not that, but said to be odd things he endorsed or expounded upon in his own life?
Fie on such.
Fret not and take heart for steamed vegetables and cheese dust are where you find them, still.
Our American Success Story, addendum:
Coca Cola circa 1985, stagnant in sales, yet iconic in its branding: an elder statesman of commerce. A known quantity, and familiar to so many Americans, it was. Until it wasn't, in the guise of a changed product, the new Coke. The public outcry in response provoked the corporate overlords to return the beloved branding, and restore the world famous product. It seemingly reinvigorated American interest in the product they knew so well, and had began to take for granted.
Today Coke and Diet Coke outsell all of its competitors. It's chief soft drink space competition teeters on the edge of its own change due to languishing sales--its own possible reinvention.
It was just one more thing Middle America would not have changed, for sake of, if not nostalgia, but a hedge against fogbanks of a unknown future: a moat between the immodest, immoderate foxes that smell their dinner. And to those foxes, things that never mattered to them anyway they would amend in ways in which remove the prior charm of well-known quantities.


