President Trump has never been convicted of a crime in this country! Eh, it's worked for him so far. Ivanka's hotel deal in Azerbaijan may be worse for him, as a human being.

Let me repeat my Varga fanfic from elsewhere in these comments.

Maybe it's intentional. So many of Varga's stories are, like, bar-stool pendant obvious. Fake moon landing. Last Japanese soldier. Others are more creative. But maybe it is part of him being an obvious fraud. With a violent steak.

No wonder this review is so dyspeptic. His former colleague is writing for the NYT!

Steve Buscemi in Fargo. I forgot it till someone mentioned it 'ere. And the image with the napkin is 'ere: http://diaryofascreenwriter…

In the 1970s VW sold a squared off car called The Thing in the U.S. A friend's dad told me it was identical to a German army jeep from the war, so a little disconcerting to see on Maple Street or whatever.

There's an Eastern European aristo type with a British schooled accent in the Trump administration named Gorka and he wears his father's medal from an organization vaguely like that. It's been one of the many scandals, but what people may have missed is that he is the most aggressive, rude and demeaning…

The link in the chain was broken & sharp.

The black-and-white tableau from the shetl village in the 1700s was stunning.

Geez that Bodine bully with the whip (Walter Matthau) in Burt Lancaster's The Kentuckian is horrible. Lancaster is so acrobatic it makes for a great face-off, though.

And if I was Lord Buckethead, I'd be pissed that guy from the Monster Raving Loony Party was stealing my game.

D) They also ask follow-up questions.

1. Some YouGov guy was wonking out on the polls last night on CNN International. It was pretty good and had no commercials, but not nearly as smooth as U.S. election coverage or the 538 podcast. Maybe the BBC does it better.

Thanks.

A surprising number of senators and congress critters are former federal prosecutors and state attorneys general. They don't like this loyalty oath b.s., goes against the office norms. Bharara actually attended the hearing yesterday.

Why, does Trump keep a $20 in the battery compartment?

In the summer he goes to a Trump golf course in Virginia or New Jersey. The Virginia one is fraudulently called "national" and has a fake Civil War battle commemorated on the banks of the Potomack. http://www.snopes.com/donal…

Hey, if he's impeached and convicted more than halfway through his term, Pence can serve a full ten years! Let's elect a better Congress in 2018!

I assume this person is now in charge, because she runs the right-wing Northern Irish party that's giving BoJo an essential 10 votes in parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi… She was dirtied up in the "cash for ash" scandal a few years ago. People were heating empty barns to get a "renewable energy" payment, since…

They invented it, with "rotten boroughs." I'll assume that's all fixed, because there's no doubt they would be yakking about it otherwise.