MDePolo

I get the "politics" of it. What I don't get is the lack of humanity.

He had better keep his phone off mute. That call can come in at any time.

That's because it doesn't have to be true; it just has to register. That's a feature, not a bug.

Headlines are all that matter to the greatest swath of American voters. To ask them to actually read past those headlines invokes the time-tested political adage "Once you're explaining, you're losing."

Yes, but enough backlash to make a difference? A lot of it will be howling into the wind, and most of the nation either wants the extreme agenda or will become numb to it. This also happens to be how we got here in the first place.

I don't know that the Senate has the fortitude to deny Trump anything; they certainly have little history of doing so.

Good morning democracy defenders! Just a reminder that the circus Trump is creating around the cabinet nominations is a feature, not a bug. He wants to distract with chaos so you can't focus. Don't fall for it.

BlueSky has overtaken Threads in the U.S.

A sit-com "Simpson's" showrunner & writer Al Jean wrote and produced in the mid-'90s called "Teen Angel." It was canceled in its first year, but I recall it because the main character was, in part, named after my brother.

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