If I Only Had A Brain

Routine news of some silly money paid at auction for an old Hollywood prop is enlivened by the tale of the man who obtained the merchandise from a display case eighteen years ago. According to his lawyer, the entrepreneur was persuaded by a corporate acquaintance that Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz were adorned with real rubies, apparently so that MGM would have the privilege of paying more to insure them. Obviously this made perfect sense; but having acquired the slippers through an act of percussive free enterprise, though sadly not in Kansas, the realist was disabused by a sales executive. Doubtless the details of the conspiracy between MGM executives and their colleagues in the Democratic Party's adrenochrome unit are even now being assiduously concealed behind the chemtrail curtain.