When my kid was around one, I was up one night rocking him because he was crying. He lifted his head off my chest and then puked a gallon all over himself, over me, over the rocking chair, everywhere. It got inside the feet of his footy pajamas, in my hair, you name it. I was up for another hour cleaning up…

The lesson of the fiasco of the past few days is that Trump and Bannon have zero interest in regular chains of command, and zero interest in the consequences of the screwups when those things happen.

He and the brass are getting cut out of the command chain. Bannon has been elevated above the Head of the Joint Chiefs on the National Security Council, and Mattis was specifically cut out of the consultation on Trump’s idiocy on Friday -- although Rudy Giuliani was in the loop. Watch for a systematic attempt by…

What I’m scared about is that I have a son and daughter who will be draft age in a few years. A little while ago, I would have urged them to go for Conscientious Objector status or even pose as gay to get out of the draft, but now I’m hoping that I can get them into college in Canada or elsewhere and simply resign…