Trump doesn't "think". He guesses, believes, parrots, and emotes. But no actual "thinking" is involved in any of what he vomits out of his face-anus.

I've never seen "Yojimbo", and it has been quite some time since I've seen "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".

I don't live in a town; the nearest town is 20 miles away and has about 20,000 people. And this is logging country, so all the trucks tend to be real ones. The only time I've seen Muskmobiles are in Seattle or going toward Seattle.

My cat Friday could most easily be summoned by putting a can opener (the regular kind) on the rim of a can. You didn't even have to open it; just that telltale click. And she would immediately appear, even if she'd got out and run under the house.

I think there really is such a thing as "selling out", but most of what people use the term for is not that.

It's not EVER justified in a Constitutional government of enumerated powers. It's just that prior to the ascension of the mad emperor, the screaming of those mangled in the machinery of the State was drowned out by the music of "decorum" inside the ivory towers inhabited by judges.

That's not the point I'm making, at all.

Neither!

All I have to do to summon Speck is sit down in front of my computer.

They're being kind to the mayflies.

The one I saw parked was on a street in Seattle.

I'm happy to say I've never been close enough to one to tell if anyone was in it AT ALL. The few times I've seen them it was either parked or going the opposite way on a divided highway.

Ah. In the prehistory of my main D&D universe, the "First Men" are humanoid beings whose dominion over the Earth immediately preceded Man's. Probably not very similar to Martin's.