Last night, we had dinner at Bistro Aracosia on MacArthur Boulevard, an upscale Afghan restaurant with my old (yes) college roommate Doug, and his S.O., Susan.

A few digressions. (1) name – no one calls MacArthur either MacArt or MacArtie, and maybe someone calls Doug Douglas (maybe not), but never, I am sure, Dougie , and (2) geography lesson – Aracosia is the old Persian name for the southwestern part of Afghanistan whose largest city is now called Kandahar.

Back to our story.

Susan lives in Nova Scotia, where Doug spends about half of his time, and gets to DC once or twice a year. We usually have dinner when she is here, and it is always a delight..

Yesterday was particularly interesting because it gave us a chance to talk to a future resident of the 51st state. Of course, she doesn’t expect to be a subject of King Don the Terrible, but told us that he is attacking Canada when it is quite weak, with a sputtering economy and, in effect, a powerless prime minister. There will be parliamentary elections later this year. She says the Liberals will have the stronger party leader, but thinks they will have a tough time remaining in control.

The food at Aracosia is always good (I have been there four or five times), but last night, I think Edie made the best choice, getting the vegetarian flight, a dish with six or seven vegetarian dishes, plus rice.

The restaurant’s vegetarian menu is enormous and previously I have chosen from it, or ordered something with chicken. I limit myself to red meat twice a month, and decided to try a lamb dish last night. It was good, but I will stick to my usuals from now on.

I also had an espresso after dinner. I can’t explain it, but I can drink coffee at 10 p.m. and sleep just fine. But a single espresso, containing less caffeine, at 8 will do me in. So I tossed and turned ladt night until about 2 a.m., giving me a lot of time to think about my red meat and espresso mistake.

In the meantime,  in addition to taking over ownership of the Panama Canal, the Gaza Strip, Canada, and Greenland, King Donald the Awful (he named himself King yesterday, you might have heard) wants to set New York City’s transportation policies by immediately abolishing the new and apparently successful congestion charging, which he did by Executive Order (up to the courts now), and wants the federal government to run DC. He probably does not have the Congressional support to end DC home rule, but he will undoubtedly try, just as he will try to do what he can by E.O.

You probably know that King Donald the Terrible quoted a line from a film, as if it came out of the Holy Bible. “He who saves his country does not violate any law”, says Napoleon in the film.

Forgetting the weird source, let’s parce the quote. Either (1) it is ridiculous, or (2) it is correct. Although (1) is clearly the better choice  (2) raises an interesting question. If, as it is, the country needs to be saved, one way or another, from King Donald the Horrible, then it would follow that….