A dozen years back, Trump was replaced by a lifelike robot controlled by… Billy Bush! As part of his plan to get a third Bush in the White House! This whole election now makes sense!

"Today in Clinton email news…"
(40% of electorate has now dozed off)
(30% of electorate has now gone to DefCon 10 outrage)
(30% of electorate continues playing (insert topical phone game))

This sounds like people criticizing Ke$ha because her chipped nail polish was insincere.

The Washington Post's politics section is now straight up posting kitten videos.

Yes, it's an allergy that most of the population has.

Like Genevieve, I thought Joan's side of their disagreement seemed to appear from nowhere. She's really into the team spirit thing? I missed that. (Much less, into it to the point that she would meet with her boss's boss to ask that she be included on the certificate—that just seems weird in anyone with some level of…

It's a running joke. Early in the series he would wake her up because he'd had an insight and they needed to go. As he started actually thinking about her feelings he evolved various gentler means of waking her to discuss the case. Or playing bagpipes.

Paraphrasing Burn Notice: Dealing with a professional is like playing chess with a mastermind. Dealing with a wannabe tough guy amateur is like playing checkers with a toddler—at any minute they might have a meltdown and kick the whole game onto the floor, declare that they get infinite kings, outright steal your…

Our dog used to get the oil on her fur in the woods, then transfer it to the couch where it would transfer to the back of my legs. Never thought that itchy factoid would nail a murderer.

A violation of the Hatch Act isn't a criminal one, but a firing one.

"I could shoot someone on the streets of Manhattan."

*sigh* I yearn for the mythic days when Trump's "cheating is okay so long as I win" and "I hate that guy for principled reasons… oh, wait, I've suddenly decided this isn't rigged because now it benefits me" got him dismissed from all serious consideration for any job other than reality TV crazy.

Just as a plot qua plot, it says something that people are confident the Clinton campaign would have something and be prudent about wasting it too early.

I feel the final twist should somehow result in Jim Gilmore atop the ticket. That this entire election season has been an elaborate caper out of Ocean's 19, Trump and Clinton keeping everyone's attention off him.

I don't know—it's not like there were no stories of Donald Trump groping, but Pussygate caught traction with people who had shrugged off his unhinged attacks on the Khans or Curiel. I'm still surprised that hurt him as much as it did. (The extended response was certainly a primer in "How to high five other…

I was guessing Tuesday. Wednesday also works.

Yes, the legal standard seems to be "a reasonable person would foresee this act having an effect." They don't have to show a partisan intent to damage.

Democrats seem inspired to vote extra hard after this "NEW EVIDENCE… okay actually not" move.

What's bizarre is the pretext (from his staff; Trump may well believe it) that this is brilliant rhetorical double backflips that his critics can't even understand. When "I didn't say that, but people are saying that" has become a running joke."

I take back what I said yesterday about Comey being in a tough spot. First you send a letter so as to "not mislead" (i.e. "lead") the American people, then you try to get a warrant to see if these are even new emails? That is not the order of events you choose if you want to avoid the appearance of violating the Hatch…