I can only watch so much of today’s news before I start to go catatonic.

Accordingly, there has been a lot of Turner Classic Movie Channel occupying the flat screen. There are some great films- glittering, sprawling productions that featured actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood. We were watching “Around the World in 80 Days the other afternoon. It starred David Niven, the debonaire Brit who re-imagines Jule’s Verne’s legendary character Phileas Fogg in his quest to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less.

This were just getting interesting in the film when unexpectedly the overture came up in lush sound.

I was little confused- not unusual these days but several bars into the music, the logo came up reading:

Remember that ritual? You were supposed to head down to the lobby, et some more popcorn and a Coke and return to your seat to finish the journey to London with Mr. Fogg, relaxed and refreshed. Cinerama was a great way to see just how cool the epic films were- in Technicolor with Todd-AO sound.

I like intermissions. It takes off some of the pressure of sitting in the darkness, you know?

Anyway, I am not going to dwell on the darkness of the last three years here in the Swamp. Mr. Mueller delivered his long anticipated report into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Although there was no finding of collusion between the Kremlin and Trump Tower, the major finding- except for that- was that Trump may have obstructed justice into a crime that did not happen.

With the report delivered, cable news may have just as well put up the Intermission graphic an let us go get an adult beverage and some popcorn for what comes next. I am hoping this is the last national crisis we have to endure in which I know some of the participants.

Nothing dies here in The Swamp, of course, and the second act is already ready to start.

New Attorney General Barr is determined to discover how this all came about. In addition to the FBI Inspector General’s (second) report, there is a Federal Prosecutor in Utah who has not said anything in a year.

Additionally, late last week Mr. Barr appointed a Connecticut Prosecutor named John Durham to also look at targeting the former Administration’s political opponents by the CIA and FBI and their roles in origins of the epic farce.

It is no wonder there are now fingers being pointed by the participants, and former President Barak Obama warned his former employees not to engage in circular firing squads.

It is already starting. But of course you could ask General Flynn about that. But let’s wait until the intermission is over.

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