True Things 9 - Karma

You're familiar with this response to a bizarre occurrence:  "You can't make this stuff up."  In some cases, you can't make it up because if you did, it wouldn't be realistic enough for anyone to 1) believe it or 2) enjoy it as entertainment.  Even fiction needs to comply with the unwritten rules of connection to the real world:  it needs to fit, somehow, with our notion of how the world works.  If it's just randomly bizarre, or extreme, or improbably coincidental, it's not worthy of our attention.

With that in mind, today's True Thing, and the coincidental fallout:

• President Trump today cut off tariff negotiations with Canada over a TV ad, produced and aired by the Province of Ontario, that showed Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.  (This is a whole other thing in itself).
• The first game of the World Series will be played in Toronto tonight,* watched by millions all around the world.**
• The 'Star Spangled Banner' will be played before the game.

What happens during that rendition of our national anthem - in a huge stadium populated mostly by Canadians - is anybody's guess.  My guess is it will include the word "Boo!!" and it won't be referring to Halloween.

* -  The Toronto Blue Jays are the only reason why the term "World" Series has any legitimacy at all, as flimsy as that is.

** - 15.2 million last year.