The world suffers from an acute case of attention deficit/obsessive compulsive disorder.

When the Media is onto something- Russia, storms, crazed gunmen and mass murder, it is impossible to get them to focus on anything else. Goodness knows there is a lot to go around. The shooter himself- won’t use his name- remains an enigma. Yesterday, I asked “why,” baffled that outside the environment of a battlefield, this savage and merciless act is nothing anyone sane would do.

A friend suggested it might be something physiological. Perhaps a brain tumor rocked his mind off the rails and prompted this vicious behavior.

Then there is the staggering methodical approach he used to set up his ambush. And the ‘bump stock’ device on several of them that permitted a machine-gun rate of fire from his weapons. The sheer number of weapons and piles of ammunition he carried in is staggering, not to mention a sledgehammer with which to knock out the tempered glass of the windows in his suite. From experience, there are cameras everywhere in a casino. Why didn’t someone notice? Some minutiae tantalizes as the pundits blather on the tube.

Unknowns? Was there a note? Some photos of the suite suggest there was. Why did he wire $100K to the Philippines. Was it to the girlfriend. Why was she out of the country when this outrage was perpetrated? Was he really going to use the amonia nitrate found in his car to create a vehicle-borne IED like that monster Tim McVey used at Oklahoma City?

Maybe we will know more after the authorities talk to the girlfried, who returned from Asia late yesterday. Or not. Whatever it is, it is so horribly awful that I am actually with the Media on the ADD/OCD thing. Maybe it is the old analyst in me, but I can’t stop thinking and wondering about it.

That features prominently in this weeks Postcard- and predictably, the talking points were being dragged out while the bodies of the slain were still warm. That is the nature of The Swamp. All politics, all the time. And the use of whatever power you might possess to actually harm your opponents. I worked on the Hill during the 104ThCongress, and while we could sense things were changing with the introduction of character assassination and the use of words as weapons of mass destruction.

I am not a fan of dystopia, which appears to be where all this is going. Meanwhile, here is the weekly postcard…..

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