Beauty Pageants

 I watched a clip or two of Erica Kirk in her days as a beauty queen and wondered how anybody maintains that grin. Don't your facial muscles ache, don't your teeth get cold? I've tried to do it- and it's so unnatural; the body just doesn't want to go there.

I was watching Kirk because beauty pageants are in the news- more specifically the ones the current President used to run. O so tacky, O so banal, O so locker-room. 

These things keep falling out of the sky, like debris from a volcano. They fall on the American President and the circle of similarly tacky and banal old men- some dead, some not so dead- who have been identified as existing in the orbit of Jeffery Epstein. 

First the ash and the red-hot cinders. Then the pyroclastic flow......