Monday
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it, per the Whitehouse, simply one of “thousands of used car lot balloons?” floating innocently across American airspace? Any week that starts with a Whitehouse briefing reassuring us that “this is not an invasion of the aliens”, promises to be a good week, and then it promptly gets better. Liz Sherwood-Randall, White House homeland security adviser, continues: “I mean, it’s funny, but it’s not funny” – setting up the crucial first act scepticism that guarantees, per the law of disaster movies, the subsequent annihilation of the entire planet and all civilisations upon it.
