Weekend Frivolity: In a Precedented Predicament, the Suez Canal Is Blocked!

According to the New York Times, the most common option for ships that cannot get through the Suez Canal as planned “is to reroute themselves around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.”  But you knew that!

However, we have derived some fantastic insights from the most recent blocking of the Suez Canal.  E.g.:

From @brcohen95

And this lovely updating of a familiar poem from @Thinkwert

I have blocked

the canal

that was in

Egypt

and which

you were probably

using

for the global economy

Forgive me

It went sideways

so fast

and out of control

 

And this solution to the Trolley problem, addressing concerns that Sid DeLong raised here