The recent encounter of a vacationing civil servant and a mugger offering deadly force has caused me to revisit a question that had piqued me obliquely when one of his shiftmates, while on his way to work, rear-ended another car.

And in the same vein, another shift mate of these two, while jogging near his home, was himself the victim of a robbery.

As fortune would have it, the entire shift of these jokers and clowns is poised at the pinnacle of a delicately balanced Rube Goldberg apparatus upon the working of which the survival of what little freedom remains alive in this country depends,.

Part of that delicate balance is caused by the positioning on the central lever of four jokers to the right and four clowns to the left, with one guy named Tony stuck in the middle.

So what I'm trying to say is that it would be at once consequential and inconvenient for any of these  jokers and clowns to have any kind of bad accident, and I think we should give each one a driver and a lookout, ya' feel me?

Particularly 'cause even tho' neither the machete guy or the other guy had a political hard on, that's just good luck, and I really worry about the clowns on the left, if you know what I mean...Before Herman Cain, for instance.