Powder Keg, Meet Match

 Medieval towns and cities were traditionally surrounded by defensive walls. That's common knowledge. What's less commonly known is that there were some occupations that were required to operate outside those walls. Tannerys and cloth dyeing are two examples, mainly because those industries used chemicals that were, um, unpleasant. There's another occupation that was also relegated to operate outside the walls. One that produced an unbelievably good smell; Bakeries. 

The reason bakers had to ply their industry outside the walls had nothing to do with noxious chemicals or bad smells. It was the risk of fire. You see, ordinary flour is flamible. Not just flamible, but explosive if it reaches that "Goldilocks" stochiometric mixture of flour-dust and air. The Great Fire of London started in a bakery, ignited, in all probability, by a candle that someone forgot to extinguish when they went home for the evening. There's a scene in the movie, "The Equalizer 2" where Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) deliberately scatters flour in a bakery, effectively creating a thermobaric bomb that his antagonist detonates with a "Flashbang" device, perishing in the explosion.  

I can't help but notice that, in this case, life is imitating art. 

The decline and fall of the American Empire took a dramatic step forward a couple of days ago. Of course, the MSSM (MainStream Social/Media) - which IMO includes (but isn't limited to) Facebook and Twitter - studiously ignored/suppressed this development. It was a speech, mumbled by (yet-to-be-verified) "President" Joe Biden, in response to the latest "mass shooting". As is standard practice for the political Left, who's goal is (and always has been) to disarm the population, he was (well, his puppeteers were) attempting to use this incident to undermine the Second Ammendment, but his efforts were laughable and insulting to all law-abiding Americans who consider themselves patriotic. It reminds me of the instances where Wyle E Coyote finds himself in a dark space, strikes a match and reveals he's sitting in a powder magazine. At least Wyle E has the self-awareness to realise he's done something stupid. 

The United States is a powder keg, a bakery filled with swirling clouds of apparently harmless Flour dust and its nearing that perfect, stochiometric mixture of social / cultural / political / economic / ethnic division, created and driven by the politcical Left. It will be the blind, ignorant, arrogant actions of a leftist, like Biden's speech, that touches off the explosion. Hubris truly does precede Nemisis.