Laughter

It is raining this morning, raining with dark grey sheets in a scudding roil of the sky. Yet somewhere out there some cheerful bird is improvising themes on his daily chweet-chweet tune. It's not flooding yet, and there is much to laugh about.

One of the things I am laughing at is the idea of the decline and fall and rising again of China. When people talk about such things, they should take the long historical view. China has always been on the rise. Only in the roughly 200 years of most of the 19th and 20th centuries has it not quite been its usual self.

Yes, it's not flooding yet. But the deluge will come. Hahahaha...