Once upon a time, a man and his wife decided to build a new house. It was a very large house, and it was made out of straw. They didn’t fear the Big Bad Wolf, though, because it was made out of a very great deal of straw. Also, the man and his wife both have guns.
When they had finished raising the walls of their house, they had straw left over. They had a very great deal of straw left over, because they sort of miscalculated how much straw building their house would take.
But the man and his wife were good capitalists and they knew that their extra straw was a commodity which could be sold, if only they could find someone to help them carry their straw to town.
And so they sought out the help of the one man with the most time on his hands in all the land, who also worked cheap. Seeing their plight, the man kindly dropped what little he had been doing and set out to help them bring their straw to the straw-merchant in the nearest town, many many miles away.
First they put some of their straw in their wagon…
And they drove the wagon to the straw-merchant.
Then they stacked the straw very carefully. For the straw-merchant was evil, and liked his straw piles neat.
And then they drove away home. But that’s not the end of the story, because the man and his wife had miscalculated a very great deal…
…assuring that the straw-merchant will probably be buying his straw from the man and his wife for the whole rest of the summer, if not beyond.
And that’s the story of why there was no morning blog post.
Since I’m sure this is organically grown free-range straw, I endorse this transaction, provided of course the parties can produce documentaton that all applicable federal, state, county, township, and municipal regulations pertaining to agricultural products have been complied with, and further provided that all monies and in-kind assets involved have been duly reported to all relevant taxing authorities, and further provided that the principle (s) has (have) filed the statuatorily required reports to the NLRB verifying that employees and contractors have been compensated acording to law and engaged without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, or sexual preference.
Oh, yeah. And UN treaties, too.
If this were California, I’d have had to pretend to be a transgender Mohican or something to make the sale legal – and yes, we’d have needed another trailer for the paperwork. As it was, we just put the heavy shit on a trailer and sold it. This probably being a violation of some vague commerce-clause-related federal law, I expect the drones to show up at any…