Perplexing Questions

I am perplexed by the following conundrums:

How do all the carbon emissions emanating from all the massive California wildfires compare with those saved by this state's very tough exhaust emissions standards?

How could Donald Trump, a man with so many obvious flaws, win the presidency?

What did ex-President Obama discuss with the leaders of China, India and France when he met with them recently? Were these meetings in violation of the Logan Act?

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe is shifting from Russian collusion to obstruction of justice, is this a problem for his investigation? If there were no underlying crimes, how can anyone be obstructing justice?

Since the Obama-Clinton tag team did so much to forward Russian interests (Crimea, Ukraine, Syria, Uranium One, Iran, emasculate missile defense, etc.), why would Putin have preferred Trump over Hillary in the last election?

Why did the dollar drop relative to the yuan over 6% earlier this year and has now returned to near parity? Is China playing trade games with Trump?

Are womens' accusations of sexual predation enough to produce recriminations on the presumed predictors? Does not there need to be some corroborating evidence too?

If none of the global warming predictions or computer models have been validated, how can these alarmists still be believed or their very expensive remedies be endorsed by governments?

With probably hundreds of thousands of strapping young men and women who are indolent and mischief-makers, why can't they be organized into a Civilian Conservation Corps to destroy all the combustible material in all the critical areas of California ... in order to eliminate the devastating wildfires there?

Public Opinion Guillotine

There is a feeling of the French Revolution building around these recent sexual harassment revelations and repercussions. Like then, the public opinion guillotine is now working overtime to remedy the past sins of a hoard of sexual predators. Heads are being lopped off with gay abandon to atone for a rash of male on female peccadilloes ... from ass pinching to forcible rape. The blood lust is palpable and rampant ... and suddenly the culprits are being led in donkey carts to their career beheadings. I won't again count the corpses in this blog post ... you know who they are ... but the putrid pile is surely going to grow further.

This social blood lust, it seems to me, is a kind of atonement for what has become an open season on women. And this open season, again it seems to me, is a consequence of how forgiving this country has been to the decades of over-the-top sexual predation by Bill Clinton ... as well as a clan  puzzlingly tolerance of sports celebrities acting like sultans with their odalisques .... birthing many children from many women without blowback. The more wealthy and powerful these men, the more outrageous their behavior. Many men of consequence have therefore concluded, "If they all can do it, why not me?"

Well the fun and games have been had ... and it is now time to pay the piper. So, all over America, from Hollywood to D.C. to NYC, men (and maybe a few women) are wondering, "Am I next? Is the donkey cart next coming to take me to that public-opinion guillotine?"