A reminder from Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet":

[Atticus]

"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction."

[ultralite001]

1. The Dems...

are becalmed...

"When a ship is becalmed—the wind died down—she can’t move—sometimes the sailors break out their oars. They’ll row a boat ahead of the ship and tow her. Or they’ll carry out anchors and heave them over, and the crew will lean on the capstan bars and drag the ship up to where the anchors are heaved over. Oars are made of ash—white ash. So—when you get ahead by your own get-up-and-get—that’s when you “sail by ash breeze”."

-- Carry On, Mr Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham


Time to haul out the oars... This must change.