1 October—So the incompetent executioners in Tennessee, who may well have been three sheets to the wind on sour mash, failed to execute Christa Pike last night after two tries. Earlier this year they’d failed to execute Tony Carruthers. Pike has been hospitalized, presumably pending a third pitch, and Carruthers is still languishing on death row. Putting everything else aside, consider that Christa Pike had been tried and convicted in 1996 for a murder she’d committed in 1995 and Tony Carruthers also had been convicted in 1996 for a murder he’d committed in 1994.

To be sure, we all know we’re going to die sooner or later. But 30 years—three decades—on death row? Forget about the cruel and unusual punishment aspect. Pike and Carruthers are convicted murders, after all, and presumably inflicted the cruelest ultimate punishment on their victims and may not deserve any sympathy. But justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice denied naturally takes us to Donald Trump, who has caused justice to be denied to countless individuals and diverse entities since even before he proved the democratic process could really screw up as well as be perverted. The top picture below in which Ayatollah Trump appears to have a splayed foot has caused some speculation that among his physical infirmities is one that causes him to wear a leg brace. Let’s assume it hasn’t been photoshopped. So big deal. Anybody can stand like that. And Franklin Roosevelt wore leg braces he didn’t want the public to know about. Then again, FDR was a good president and not a self-dealing crook and tyrant. And for bespoke trousers, Trump’s pants legs are too long.

Trump also is said to use heel lifts. Allegedly it’s his foot sticking out of a shoe in the bottom picture. In the great scheme of things, who gives a damn? We know Trump is a psychotically vain bully and bullies often depend upon their sheer size to intimidate, so Trump’s heel lifts certainly aren’t out of the question. Given his advanced years,Trump will have lost a couple of inches in height from his max, of course. He doesn’t appear to be wearing a leg brace in the picture, but his left foot appears to be splayed.

We also know that Trump suffers from swelling in his lower legs, although it’s not evident in the bottom picture, caused, his flunky quacks admit, by chronic venous insufficiency, which they insist is not deep vein thrombosis. In all events, Trump can thank his gluttonous obesity for his circulatory problems. And whatever they may be, they’re likely more serious than his flunkies are willing to admit—to the public and/or to their lord and master.

More to the point—and a really big deal—is that chronic venous insufficiency frequently contributes to mood changes, fatigue, and brain fog. Enough said?