Wow, Jamelle, all I can say is wow. What a piece of ____ they all are.

¡Feliz cumpleaños, amigo mio!

Tomorrow (Saturday) morning will bring a partial eclipse. Wear goggles and be there prior to sunrise . . .

Now Trump wants to undo the Smithsonian Institution by inserting phony "improper ideology" claims. Bad enough that he knows nothing about art and culture and what makes life worth living. Now he wants to insert his ignorance where it is so misplaced as to make blissful ignorance seem wise folly.

Thank you, Stephanie, well put!

That would naturally depend on the prisoner. I for one would welcome providing Trump country club amenities so long as he is in prison—not the mental prison in which he currently resides but one that includes restrictions on what he is allowed to do and where he is allowed to roam.

That single Allen key will likely make disassembly a tad time-consuming . . .

Of all Trump's recent travesties, I implore you not to overlook what he has done at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, one once-singular institution bent on making America great while bettering life for all Americans and promoting American achievement for all to see and hear and explore.

Possible addition to the list:
• Get to know your librarians
• Ask the librarian(s) for her or his (or their) opinion
• Speak in hushed and respectful tones at all times
• Be respectful of other library visitors
• Do not be afraid to ask a librarian if there may be anything with which you can help

Who does Donald Trump think he is? Who gave him authority to tell me which language I can use, which one is "official"? According to whom—the Constitution? No. Philosophers? No. Poets? The day he outthinks me, I might fall for that line of BS. I hope Congress reclaims its spent authority . . . soon.

There is no end to such lunacy. It's like Trump's "transgender lab mice" . . .

Jesus, Jeff, are you are grandfather already? Tell me it ain't so!

It's getting harder and harder to tell fact from fiction when Kremlin Weekly News headlines this: Trumpelstiltskin Forecasts Gold From Wheat Harvest Better Than Ever

Yes, Joanne, history repeats. Reagan set the country back by a century with his states' rights claptrap and now it won't go away. Whenever someone on the right or far right comes up against a hurdle, if no other ideological avenue is open for exploitation the claim "states' rights" opens the way.

Thx for sharing, Joanne. I await his complete sentencing and trial if only to find out whether fearless leader bails his sorry ass out again.

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If Trump were a dogcatcher and tried to tell the mailman that the mailman bit the dog instead of the dog having laid its fangs into the mailman's shins, who would have the bloody shins, the dog? Trump's insistence that Ukraine started the war is absurd. I hope that no one buys into his fantasy.

Happy to learn that you are on the mend, Mr. Bouie!

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Nah, "admiration" is anthropomorphizing, I believe. Rather, the kit is figuring out how to watch, smell, listen . . .

Not only is it a harbinger of ruinous defeat, Mr. Bouie, as you point out, but in today's military it is misguided. The women and men in today's army and navy who guide missiles, fly drones, and more do so not from the front lines but from secure locations well removed from battle zones.

The news from Team Trump keeps getting worse. I fear that there is no stopping him now. I await the outcome of Judge McConnell's insistence that Trump obey the law with heavy heart, Mr. Bouie.

Is it true that so many people are urinating on that building that it's proving difficult to keep it clean?

Where is this mural located (apart from Bluesky, that is)? Is there an artist who signed it? Thanks for sharing!

I am a man and my feet hurt so all men's feet must hurt.

Vance is talking through his hat. If he really wanted to show how much he understands Constitutional law, he would start by revealing Trump and Musk's federal financial overreach. Next thing we know, Vance will demand a presidential line-item veto, as though that would ever be legal.

But the play-by-play left much to be desired. Mr. Brady needs to do a little more homework, IMHO, and get some much-needed practice. How did he make the "big game" when there were many other supposedly more-informed P X P analysts available? His performance proved a disservice to knowledgeable fans.

Just making sure you realize that by dictionary definition the logic faux pas termed "non sequitur" is "a fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative proposition or from the transposition of a condition and its consequent." Many know only the second definition (not quoted).

One thing about people who dislike DEI initiatives is that they do not understand that without DEI, their social world(s) might soon collapse into a single entity, an undifferentiated and undifferentiable "thing" so like themselves that there wold be no dissent, no different POV to challenge them.

We need a reminder that there were—and are—valid reasons the Founders did not give the President a line-item veto over spending. With such financial power, Hamilton and Madison pointed out in the Federalist Papers, the President could set up alliances and curry favors that would make him "king."