Down in Baja, the local fishermen are currently arguing over whether the dorado are biting on live bait or plugs, which is vastly more complex than Washington's latest semiconductor theater. Up in the Capitol, lawmakers are frantically waving bipartisan bills around to block high-end silicon exports while simultaneously throwing elite state dinners for tech executives. It turns out that threatening a trade war with one hand and passing appetizers to microchip billionaires with the other is a phenomenal aerobic workout for Congress. We'd check the legislative text, but the waves are firing at Cerritos and frankly, watching a pelican dive-bomb for a sardine offers a much higher intellectual return.