That's a good question - a three foot putt, as the Mooch claimed Trump makes easily, doesn't seem as if it would be that hard. Are there any actual golfers on here? I've only golfed twice in my life, but I'm sure I made putts that long in practice at least.

Hey. He didn't have to play college athletics. Didn't you hear he can throw a football in a perfect spiral, shoot and make basketball free throws one after the other, and routinely sink three foot putts?
Well that's what I heard - what possible motivation could there be to lie about your new boss' athletic prowess?

Remember that Alec Guinness movie Kind Hearts and Coronets? He plays a distant heir to a dukedom and all that's standing in his way are about eight people. If they die he's the duke - so he plots to kill each. Guinness plays all the relatives as I recall.

I don't want to ascribe cleverness to Trump, because he's an idiot. But his administration has moved enough toward blocking of journalists, limited his actual interviews or any back-and-forth public forums, that now his stupid twitter is not just seen as official presidential policy, but as the truth.
It's paranoid of…

Come on now — at least he didn't hold the phone upside down.
Maybe, I don't know.

One of my daughters was about 5 when she saw the animated Disney Robin Hood, and loved it. About a year later she watched the Errol Flynn/Olivia De Haviland one, and confessed, almost feeling disloyal to the cartoon fox, "I think this Maid Marian is prettier."

I disagree with you about Pogo. It was THE best comic ever.

Trump is pro military parades, close-up, and pro bombing countries far away. Actual military stuff that takes work? No, he has ski injuries! (or whatever his deferments were for.)
In his best years he couldn't have gotten through a day of basic training.

I was sleepy and distracted so I thought that said "John Wick Comedic Universe".

This reminds me that I figured out the secret to becoming a best selling author of sprawling, dense fantasy books, and I'm going to start writing mine tonight.

THAT's what bothers me about the concept of this as outlined in the article. It wasn't a fucking reality show. Yes, the seven were covered exclusively by Life Magazine* and NASA controlled access to them personally. But the choice of "first" wasn't a public contest at all. If it was it would have been John Glenn….

— in my favorite of all his roles!

Yeah, I know there's plenty in the Wolfe book that the movie didn't cover but… Goddamn. The movie is fucking perfect. I think this series sounds… um. Stupid.

I had that Top Ten book! Unlike other humor books, many of its once-funny jokes were funny EVERY time. Not in the sense of "oh, yeah, that cracked me up and now reading it again, I remember it amused me.." But reading the best ones I would laugh out loud again. Part of it probably was reading and imagining the…

I read that too fast, as "like chickens" and wholeheartedly agreed.
Look, I have chickens at home and they are incredibly stupid.

Here's hoping the Washington Post has some decent journalists Woodwarding and Bernsteining their way to the bottom of this mess/these messes…

Simon DelMonte - I 'm not disagreeing - I just don't remember any of those moments.
I"m serious. Even when he's "reading" straight from a script, he over-enunciates worse than W ever did (pronouncing "the" as "thee" for instance), which renders the speech effectively insincere.

As has been noted, they didn't have a choice but to allow the speech. Tradition demands they invite the sitting president.

Reagan also brought folksy, I'm-just-like-you bullshit to important speeches, and people just ate it up.
[A lot of seniors voted for him, citing his age. I remember my grandmother, a lifelong democrat and survivor of his governorship in California, telling her knitting cronies -"Ronnie is not old, he's rich. He…

I would think Bannon and Sessions though, are smart enough to do that… though I'm not keeping track - do they get along with each other? All I know is they're both racist fuckheads with delusions of what happened in history, but there could very well be nuances…