Maggie's Farm

--like putting your suitcase in a suitcase

Why would you wear your old rain hat over your new rain hat? To keep the rain off your new rain hat, of course.

Assuming rain hats cost nothing, that infinite storage space is in place, and that no loss of comfort nor gain of ridicule results from the wearing of two hats, so doing makes perfect sense --the new hat will last the longer the less it gets wet.

In fact, since the new hat will last even longer if the sweatband doesn't contact hair and skin, you could even wear underneath it an oldest rain hat, the one older than the outer one that the new one is underneath --thus nestling the new one between the outer and inner older and oldest, and thereby keeping it almost as pristine as if it hadn't yet even been purchased, or even yet been produced.

...not absent some major, major crisis.

(note: You have to say that with the second 'major' because the first one describes what the damn thing is for, supposedly.)

--i used to hear the name 'Lew Rockwell' associated with far-out rightism --or maybe i'm mixing it up with 'Lyndon LaRouch' in that regard --but yesterday there was Lew Rockwell being interviewed on Fox Biz (in regards the Newt/Rick Perry attack on Bain Capital), and from that i learned he was affiliated with the sober & very serious indeed Ludwig von Mises Institute. So i idly open hios website as i watch the very good interview, and among the list of titles there, is

Dear Americans, We Are Surrounded


http://lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel154.html

...which is less and less paranoid, overblown and windy the farther into it one reads.

we have the new Government Accountability Office, whose first report, pushed for by Sen Tom Coburn, was released in spring of last year and concerned governmental agency program duplications.

http://warnerrobinspatriot.com/bookmark/12125441-GAO-report-uncovers-billions-in-duplication-waste

...only action i know of taken so far, the new office's budget was cut by 8%. Evidently congress thought 400 pages of report on congressional waste was, oh, 32 pages too long.