esquire.com – One mock epic ends and another mock epic begins. This is the way of things in the endless saga of the Clinton non-scandals.

So, on Tuesday, when FBI director James Comey announced that neither Hillary Rodham Clinton nor any member of her staff would face criminal charges involving her use of a private e-mail system, the epic involving the actual e-mail system ended, but what began was the epic of Unanswered Questions and Curious Timing and Lax Culture. And, behind the bar in the cocktail lounge of the Mena Airport, the barkeeps lay in more supplies in anticipation of a post-holiday rush.