And may the cheap Chinese crap be ever in your favor!

[captainsblog]

Is it any wonder why the Hunger Games franchise is so successful?

Powerful people from the Capitol lure the proles into an annual arena, using a cornucopia of shiny things, to induce thrilling filmable hand-to-hand combat. To motivate the tributes, they send down periodic additional gifts, and they fight on, even to the death.

Sounds like a movie review? More like today's (and now, even yesterday's) headlines. Just change the spelling of Capitol to Capital and it reads out perfectly.

I have no interest, no motivation and no testosterone for this madness. I did get up and out at sick o'clock today, but it was partly because Eleanor has to work a full day of retail hell today, and mainly because Emily's car needs tires and today's my only chance to do it where the warranty came from.

Because a safe ride- especially after two Saturdays ago- is a much loftier goal than beating the shit out of someone over a five dollar toaster.

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