Mayhem reigns in Gin Lane, where drunks lie sprawled in the street, a woman pawns her kettle to buy more liquor and a mother is so preoccupied with taking snuff that she doesn't notice that her baby has slipped out of her arms and is tumbling over a railing.
Saturday Night Live hasn't been this politically relevant since Chevy Chase's Gerald Ford was tumbling over desks.
He can nail the comedy, the Leslie Nielsen attitude, the coolness that comes from not caring how cool you look when you're tumbling over yourself.
"JUICE," I muttered to myself to justify my lack of self-control, "I'll make lots and lots of fresh juice!" And with the profusion of produce that is tumbling over sidewalks and curbs of farmers markets throughout Los Angeles as summer approaches its zenith, I recommend you do the same.
Members of the opposition parties, the All People's Party and the Alliance for Democracy, have been tumbling over each other for government jobs.
Collectors are tumbling over one another to rate contemporary art higher and higher, in a frenzy that feels religious — the market as a medieval cathedral under construction, whose consumption of resources declares the priority of immaterial belief over practical needs.
Russian governors are tumbling over themselves to create free trade zones, to improve rail ties, to build highway bridges, and to set up banking services in rubles and yuan.
South Korean officials are tumbling over themselves this week to assure that there will be continuity for these cross-border investments, which are rare market-economy islands in what, until recently, has been the world's most statist sea.
The social network started supporting GIFs in user posts starting in May, but hadn't allowed businesses to try the hip graphic interchange format all the kids are Tumbling over.
Individuals may not feel it but taxes have been tumbling over the past few decades, as countries actively compete with each other for investment by highly mobile but often disloyal multinationals.
