But we no longer live in normal times and I find myself giving thought to violating the policy I've lived by since I began my adult working life.

The why has to do with what's available – as well as what might be coming.

More finely, what is almost certainly coming – irrespective of the outcome of the pending (s)election. If Hombre Naranja is (s)elected, somehow, it is almost certain there will be insurrections – this time, real ones – all over the country. It's already being planned. The Left will not abide "democracy" when it does not result in what the Left wants.

And it may get worse than that, if Hombre Naranja is (s)elected  . . . for the purpose of presiding over the economic collapse that pretty much everyone intuits is likely coming. To finalize the "fundamental transformation" Barack Obama told us was coming.

When people wake up to discover their 401ks have been vaporized and that the money the had in the bank might as well be denominated in Confederate dollars it will be easy to present them with the solution – and most of us won't like it.

Then there's the alternative (s)election. Which most of us are likely to like even less.

Battery powered devices won't just be pushed. They'll be shoved. But it won't matter to most of us because electricity will either be unavailable most of the time or so expensive it won't matter whether it's available.

Which brings me around to what I am thinking about doing – which is something I haven't done in decades. I am considering taking out a small loan to buy a vehicle. Not a new one, of course.