An interview with a juror says that one member of the jury held out against convicting Manafort on every count:

He only knows because he has a crappy hotel there.

‘If anyone is looking for a good lawyer’

This needs more stars, and possibly a health warning.

And in other news:

Zombie Tony Abbott and his budgie smugglers are back! There’s definitely some sort of poison oozing through the Anglo-Saxon democracies right now and I don’t know how we put the genie back in the bottle. Not sure which of the US, UK and Oz are the more fucked right now - but doesn’t New Zealand look appealing?

There are other mining protocols which aren’t anywhere as bad for the planet - though it would take a miracle for Bitcoin to adopt them.

I grew up not far from Mousehole where the Penlee Lifeboat Solomon Browne was lost with all hands during an attempted rescue of the freighter Union Star in 1981 during one of the worst storms in living memory - I still remember that night, I had never heard wind like it and the sea, even in the shelter of Mount’s Bay…

Sooner or later someone is going to have to explain to him that an overly strong Dollar is going to hurt exports.

Two things spring to mind:

Why do the Trump wives all look so similar? Sort of if Anne Coulter mated with a velociraptor but didn’t inherit the hideous reptile’s nurturing qualities.

I’d bet money that his favourite song is the fucking dreaful and utterly predictable ‘My Way’ sung by a fellow white crook.

‘Our Country was built on Tariffs, and Tariffs are now leading us to great new Trade Deals’

When Trump first threatened to remove the security clearance of his critics, Paul Ryan said: ‘I think he’s trolling people, honestly.’

Sanders: “he has leveraged his status as a former high-ranking official with access to highly sensitive info to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations, wild outbursts on internet and television about this administration”.

Yep - and their real fear is that demand for oil might collapse before the oil actually runs out. Though no one is really sure how much oil is left in Saudi Arabia; like their fellow OPEC countries they keep announcing more and more reserves without actually doing any discovery.

Always worth adding...

Kosmos 2499 in 2014 was also an odd satellite which made a number of manoeuvres. It was launched from Plesetsk alongside three military communications satellites - Kosmos 2496, 2497 and 2498, but then made several changes to its orbit including revisiting the spent Briz-M stage that had put it into orbit. The Russians…

Some of their flights are almost comically distant from their supposed destination.

Not sure if it is still the case, but Ryanair used to require cabin crews to buy their own uniforms and pay for their training.