Tomorrow is another No Kings Day. The weather here should be pretty good. But once again, I probably won’t be able to participate in protests against King Donald the Corrupt. We are hosting dinner for 12  tomorrow night. Just the thing to do right before Passover, right?

I watched a snippet of the King’s Cabinet meeting yesterday.

Digression: Why did I capitalize “Cabinet” or “King’s”? It seems to me that I don’t have any idea what to capitalize any more. I think it all started when we were told we should capitalize “Black” when it is used to describe individuals who have any sub-Saharan African ancestry, but not when we use it in other ways (except when we refer to someone like Leon Black, or the New Zealand All Blacks, who are not usually, Black). And then we were told that perhaps we should call people who are not Black, and whose ancestry does not seem to include natives of the Western Hemisphere (OK, there we go again–should I capitalize Western Hemisphere? Or should I capitalize OK?), or Asians, or Pacific Islanders, or perhaps people from the Middle East (there we go again) or North Africa……we are told we should refercto them as White, not as white. (Did you get lost in that sentence?) The Germans solved this problem centuries ago when they decided to capitalize all nouns. Should we do that? Or should I recognize this as my problem, and mine alone?

In any event, I saw a snippet of Trump’s cabinet meeting (this time not capitalized, it appears) when he switched from talking about Iran, and started to talk about Sharpie pens. He has gotten a fair amount of ridicule and criticism about this, but I have to say I am glad he did it. I, for one, would much rather King Donald the Corrupt talk about Sharpies than about Iran. And it reminded me of my blog – one day I talk about matters of worldly importance, and then I just list a bunch of Western Hemisphere (read, if you wish: western hemisphere) cities by population.

Today, I want to join the crowd and to talk a bit about Sharpies. I understand using a Sharpie when you need a bold signature. But I also know that Sharpies tend to be rather blotty and sloppy, and need to be used with care. But here at my desk, I do have a bunch of various Sharpies, which I do use now and then. But never for crossword puzzles on newsprint. On newsprint, Sharpie ink, like Palestinians and Israelis, just want to spread out from the river to the sea.

Not surprisingly, I have a lot of other ball point pens, as well. There are two reasons for this. First, it is important to me that I have pens that will write in any color I want, and any tone of that color that I want. And I need pens that will write at any width from very fine print to very bold print in any color I want.

And more than this, I must admit that I steal pens whenever I can. Especially from restaurants, when the wait staff uses pens which advertise the restaurant. Alright, I don’t consider this really stealing – why else would they have pens with their names on it, right. I think that they want me to take them home to remind myself to return one day. And shame on all of you who would just leave their advertising pen on their table with your tip. And, by the way, if you feel guilty, you can always add $1 to your tip to cover cost of the pen.

Let’s see. Just sitting here at my desk, I see I have pens from the following establishments: The Secret Garden Cafe in Occoquan VA, Clydes in Chevy Chase, True Food Kitchen in Bethesda, Alex’s Pizza in Rolla MO, Lebanese Taverna in Rockville MD, Black Market Bistro in Garrett Park MD, The Union Grill in Washington PA, Moko Sushi in Rockville MD, Bass’ Hancock House in Hancock NY, and several others.

I would also suggest that none of these pens cost the proprietors of these eating establishments anything near the $5 that Donald the Corrupt says that the taxpayer should be for Sharpies.

On another front, it looks like Congress and perhaps even Donald the Corrupt will pass and sign legislation opening all of DHS, with the except of the already opened ICE and Border Patrol, something that the Democrats suggested long ago. And, of course, Donald the Corrupt and the Republicans will take credit for doing this, suggesting perhaps as crazy (not even a controversial adjective in this case) Florida Congressman (here, again: congressman?) Randy Fine said, that the Democrats want to keep TSA from doing its job in order that Islamic terrorists (other wise known as Democrat allies) can come into the country en masse. (If you don’t know Randy Fine, he’s the one who said he likes dogs much better than Muslims.) A riddle: when is Fine not fine?

Hopefully, TSA and American airports can get back to “normal” soon. As to Iran, who knows? Trump has now said that he won’t stage a ground attack until after Easter (the Iranians had to Google Easter to find out when that is, and why it’s a holiday), which will give him time to mass thousands of troops for some sort of invasion.

When all is over (whenever that is), who is going to govern this land of almost 100 million people? If you ask that question to Donald the Corrupt, he will most likely answer: “Who knows? It could be me. Or it could be me and the new Ayatolla. Working together, side by side. I will even let him use my Sharpie.”