BATTLE OF THE BULGE: PART 159

Dear Sirs,

The primaries are just over a week away and the powers that be are getting jumpy. Polls are revealing a thumping lesson to the Fernández duo, coming up over the political horizon. Meanwhile, per capita consumption of beef, at 45 kilogrammes per annum, perhaps is at its lowest level in recorded history and even tiny little Uruguay is exporting more beef than we do, at present. How are the mighty fallen!!! In a desperate attempt to attract the younger set, the pretty Peronista candidate is recommending ‘sex, drugs and roll your own.” Anyone recall what the first item was?

Meanwhile, only one-third of the long suffering population has received a double jab, and the death toll now uncomfortably exceeds 111,000. ‘For whom the doses toll.’

David Parsons, via email