Topix Underground

Politics has no real tangible effect on my life and it never has. But my daughter's future is impinging on my present. If we were in Afghanistan, I'd sell her to a wealthy Arab and use the money to buy weed and telescopes. The balance sheet here has become askew. When it was just me and a bunch of animals, the house was spotless, the universe was orderly. Our tiny society ran like a Swiss watch. Now? Nothing but chaos, lack, demands, disarray. It's a heavy burden. The only soul in this sideshow that observes proper protocol is Gus - the FERAL cat that somehow has a measure of grace and sense about himself  to instinctually behave like a normal human being. Go figure. Gus gets special privileges for being a model citizen.