andyhickl is a builder of time machines.

So Cuomo repeated for Clinton — who, you can only imagine, must have been fairly exasperated by that point — one of his favorite proverbs, about an Arab traveler who comes upon a sparrow in the desert, lying on its back with its claws outstretched toward the sky. The Arab asks what the bird is doing, and the bird replies that he has heard the sky is about to fall, and he wants to be ready to hold it up. “You foolish creature,” says the Arab, laughing. To which the bird replies, with resignation, “One does what one can.