The White Rabbit seems concerned with his watch. An illustration from the 1865 edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. This and 36 other original illustrations are by Carroll’s own hand.
Missing. Seems to be the word of the week. Missing text messages. Missing from the Jan 6 action. Missing from the dais.
Rep. Bennie Thompson in a covid moment has asked Rep. Liz Cheney lead the proceeding this Thursday, July 21, tomorrow evening at 8pm eastern. Prior to the hearing, let’s look at those minutes that the 45th president went silent. What could he have been doing? What can be done in that period of time?
One hundred and eighty seven minutes. 187 minutes. Three hours and seven minutes. Eleven thousand, two hundred and twenty seconds.
Sixty two and one third three minute eggs could be boiled, consecutively, as could nine cherry pies with time to nibble.
There is enough time to equal the play of the fastest round of 18 holes of golf. The round is unofficially reordered by golfers who could (obviously) sprint well and still have ninety eight minutes left over to sign autographs.
Two ninety minute ballet classes with time left to change shoes in between them.
The average person can casually walk about ten miles. A competitive runner can run a marathon of 26+ miles.
One can drive from NYC to Scranton with time left over for a quick lunch stop.
Within the same amount of time, the following, and more, took place:
. 10,000 gathered to hear the speakers at the Ellipse, and walked the 2 miles from the Capitol. Of those who gathered, about 2,000 walked up the 365 steps towards the 540 rooms of the building.
.140 officers were injured.
. Five people died.
. One gallows was built.
. A secret service man denied one personal request of POTUS.
. A curiously unknown number of text messages are deleted from Secret Service phones and likely other phones, too.
. One president with the authority to make it all stop, did not. No time?