Mac-Coleman

8 February 2013 –

I was sitting in a colleague’s office in the U.S. Embassy Kinshasa, during the doldrums of the day.  As I was staring at the map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the truth hit me.  There he was, the profile of dysfunction:  Bart Simpson.  Work with me here, OK?  His nose juts out to the west and narrows all the way to the Atlantic Ocean between Angola and the Republic of the Congo.  His gaping mouth to the east of his nose is where Angola bulges north, and then his jaw continues southeast then south to form his skinny neck.  His hair sticks up straight north into the Central Africa Republic, Uganda, and South Sudan.  His eyes are the sunken, light colored blotches of swamp in the middle of the country, above his mouth.  Bart Simpson is alive and well, having settled on the Congo with a pallor of dysfunction that defies description!  YEAAAHHH!!!!  Please tell me that it is not I who am mad, but that I see with clarity that which is the truth!!!!!  Bart!  Can you hear me calling you?  Help me!!!!