Status Updates From Lame Fate | Ugly Swans (Red...

As for the children, they were walking in an endless gray column down a gray, muddy road, walking, stumbling, slipping and falling in the pouring rain, walking, huddled, soaked to the skin, clutching pitiful wet bindles in little blue paws....

Countries Mr. President liked were conducting just wars in the name of their respective nations, and also democracy. Countries Mr. President disliked for whatever reason were conducting annexationist wars -- or not wars so much as thuggish, rapacious attacks.

What you just don't get, apparently, is how an unshaven, hysterical, inveterate drunk can still be a great person, a person you can't help loving, a person you worship, whose hand it's an honor to shake, because he made it through a hell it's terrifying even to imagine and managed to stay human nonetheless.

I was also thinking about all the dismal, absurd, and even suspicious things that keep happening to me lately, as if Whoever Is Supposed to Oversee My Fate had gone utterly stupid with boredom and started playing pranks.