"We'll Look Into It"

In the Kabuki Theater of Washington, D.C.

I’m in the District of Columbia for Dr. McCullough’s testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Subcommittee member Marjorie Taylor Greene (Republican-Georgia) has invited Dr. him, Dr. Ryan Cole, and Dr. Kirk Milhoan for a Hearing on Injuries Caused By COVID-19 Vaccines: Part II on Friday, January 12th at 12 PM ET. Her office has set up a LiveStream of the event (click on link below and register).

Like Senator Ron Johnson (Republican-Wisconsin) and Senator Rand Paul (Republican Kentucky) Representative Greene seems to be genuinely interested in representing her constituency.

Whenever I’m in Washington D.C., I’m reminded of a remark (probably apocryphal) by the Roman jurist and Senator, Cicero: “Rome is made of marble but it’s built on a sewer.” He was referring to the Cloaca Maxima, a remnant of which are still visible on the Tiber

Attending Senate or House hearings always reminds me of the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which Dr. Jones is informed by Department of Defense goons that “top men are working on it right now.”

In Washington, this is another way of saying “we’ll look into it,” with the understanding that with the passage of time, this latest atrocity committed by the U.S. federal government and its lobbyist friends will fade into oblivion.

In bold recognition of this lamentable reality, Dr. Fauci is explicitly stating that he has already forgotten many details of the (closely related) creation of SARS-CoV-2 and the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that were conceived as the countermeasures to the virus created in a lab—the high tech equivalent of my junior high school pal who went around breaking sprinkler heads at night and then presenting himself as a sprinkler repairman by day. He was an enterprising hooligan.

Raiders of the Lost Ark ends with Indiana Jones telling Marion, “Fools. Bureaucratic fools. They don’t know what they’ve got.”

On a very tender note, she says to him: “Well I know what I’ve got here. Come on. I’ll buy you a drink.”

And so Marion reminds us of the importance of not taking seriously the fools who infest our government. Public affairs are a mess and and always will be, but humanity may yet be redeemed by love, and even the most cynical heart will be warmed by Marion’s (Karen Allen’s) smile.