A single pair of sneakers for a kid

about four-years-old were found

in the desert on the US side of the

border with Mexico. A baby back-

pack was a little ways away. How

far away are the jowly, double-

chinned, booze bloated public

servants who sometimes sit in

their places along Pennsylvania

Avenue in those hallowed chamb-

ers of the Republic wearing their

Allen Edmond shoes polished

by the shoeshine boy who is

actually a man in the lobby?