Idle Speculation

1. Why do John Bolton and Barr always touch their glasses like they're adjusting pince nez? It looks like they're receiving secret instructions from outer space.
2. Or foreign countries.
2. Nevertheless,  I don't trust people who never wear glasses.
3. It's like they never strained to see anything.
4. And we're living in dark times.
5. It's hard to make sense of things in the dark.
6. Not that I trust those two.
7. Oh, boy, I don't.
8. I read that Prince Charles doesn't buy new clothes, that he has his old suits mended.
9.  He makes do.
10. An old-fashioned phrase. Making do.
11. My friend Rose, who deals in vintage clothing, claims people throw away a hundred pounds of clothing a year.
12. They don't even tear them up for cleaning rags.
13. Sea-foam colored bridesmaid dresses and holey Calvin Kleins floating in barges off the coast of China.
14. With the rest of our junk.
15. Waiting for a place to debark.
16. To be buried in landfill.
17. Then rise from the dead in a couple millennia as fossil fuel.
18. How do you not let dark times define you?
19. I remember reading that the Vietnamese, back when we were killing them, would never throw anything away.
20. I saw pictures of entire houses they made out of Coca Cola bottle caps.
21. Making shelter out of packaging for a consumable product.
22. Talk about making do!
23. Like fish do now.
24. Knitting reefs out of beer carriers.
25. Hundreds of feet below.
26. In the dark.