They were talking gombeen politics.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.

Taken together, the articles exposed a dark truth: “Dirty money” — terrorist financing, drug cartel funds, fortunes embezzled from developing nations, the profits from organized crime — flows so freely through the world’s most powerful financial institutions that it has become inextricable from the so-called legitimate economy.

The Moon grows sickly at the sight of day.