Monkey business by MW of Rabbit Meets Hat.  It's a dirty business.  After all, It involves monkeys.

I think the trick is to keep your sense of humor.  Someone asked me the other day, "What exactly is your blog about?  It seems to lack focus -- I was just wondering."  Well, I've wondered the same thing! 

I was just reading Der Spiegel [which means Mirror.  As in Spiegel Grove, which was the name of Rutherford B. Hayes's house in Fremont, Ohio, because when it rained the water would pool under the shade trees around the house and reflect the foliage and the sky, like mirrors.  A Grove of Mirrors] ... so I was just reading about the food riots in Haiti.  The women make biscuits there out of vegetable fat and salt and a soft yellow clay.  They "bake" the biscuits in the sun and although they aren't really food you can suck the taste of the fat and salt out of the clay and it staves off the hunger pains although the clay gives you diarrhea.  The problem is the cost of clay has skyrocketed.  The cost of clay.

Now, I don't know about you, but I had not realized that the food crisis around the world has been going on for some weeks now.  Worldwide, not just Haiti.  For like, weeks.  Oh, sure, I noticed the increases at Whole Paycheck Foods, but that's for, you know, organic.  So where have I been, you wonder?  Probably as distracted as I am sure you have been by the pressing question of whether Americans are bitter about how the government is responding or failing to respond to their problems.  Are they bitter or just angry at the gays?  Or just angry?  After 7 and a half years, I think it's hard to tell, but that's just me.  As Jane Smiley said the other day, you spend seven and a half years disagreeing with and being demeaned by the administration and called a traitor and unpatriotic and you barely know what to think, you know?  Can you get angrier?  It's madness! It's like a bunch of monkeys running around up there!  It's like Will Farrell's character Mogatu in "Zoolander" says:  "I feel like I've taken crazy pills!"

What's that Chinese curse everyone's referencing these days?  "May You Live in Interesting Times."  Ha Ha Ha, we all used to say.  Ha Ha what a funny curse to put on people.  Those inscrutable Asians!  Next you'll be tellling us they like to torture Tibetan nuns and priests and we won't even care!  Ker-aaazy!