If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.

To the woman I locked eyes with at the Capital One Cafe: why were you there? Why was I there? Why were all those other people there? Why - in a city with thousands of coffee shops - were we all drinking coffee at a bank holding company specializing in auto loans, banking and savings accounts?