Someone yesterday had a story about NY Rep Pete King—who is feeling okay about everything Trump does—and his willingness to speak his mind about unacceptable actions when it was Obama in the White House. Specifically, the time Obama wore a tan suit. Pete reached peak outrage over that.

Even I can figure out to put a recording device in the camera, and I'm not a covert agent.

I have eaten my toast and am halfway through my tea. Someone must have hidden his phone.

Sticking this here: https://www.vox.com/science…

And Petri wrote one on being eaten by a giant spider:
https://www.washingtonpost….

What should give the GOP pause is that:
• He thought it would
• He thought a public tweet was a good subtle way to send a threat

This distracts me far more than it should. It's like using 'there' wrong, where I go down the sidelines of what the sentence could mean if that choice were correct.

I think Trump usually says the words going across the top of his mind at that moment. But since these aren't coming from an honest extrapolation of an underlying set of principles, or a deep understanding of any issues—just gut reactions—he can easily take all the sides on a question over the course of a paragraph.

I sincerely believe that you could read aloud the back of a bottle of Rogaine, and Trump would hear "You are awesome and that point you made was just brilliant. People are saying that."

Useful poll result—the number of people who claimed to believe Trump's first explanation (that the firing was all about how Comey handled the Clinton email investigation) is right around his diehard number of 30%. People need to stop wringing their hands over when oh when will these people turn on Trump—they will…

Doonesbury today just straight quotes him answering a question about Europe, in the context of a middle school classroom. As in, if a 12 year old tried to deliver up this word salad you would laugh at how comically ill-prepared they were.

"The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking; to annihilate truth."

I think more than half the fan base hates all pairings everywhere.

Aubry and Cirie will keep you around if that seems like a good long-term strategy; Andrea will decide you're too unreliable.

I'm maybe putting this down to hunger fog, because "If you vote me out at 9, 8, or 7 then I can will you an advantage to use at 6" is not a genius strategic plan if you want to be NOT voted out.

That could be the show's tagline.

For this week only, I thought Peyton was the best. For her line about how Blaine should know better than to trust lawyers.

I got way more chuckles out of Entire Foods than was warranted.

As an overall plot point, the memory enhancer working very narrowly to enhance the memories experienced by those eating the brain is a lot better than some broad magic memory drug that logically should be applied to dementia cases.

I'm always iffy about applying real-world ethics to fantasy stories, because if clones or fairy doppelgangers taking the place of people we know were an actual thing, then we would have centuries of practice informing our drawing of lines.