It should, but everything going on with North Korea at the moment is taking up space. There's also the sad fact that a lot of people will simply dismiss it as Trump merely being Trump, so nothing new to see there.

Reflecting a rosier view on China than past comments would seem to indicate, Trump made it clear in an early morning Twitter post that he doesn’t consider the nation a currency manipulator, finding the very notion shocking, since they’re apparently working with the U.S. “on the North Korean problem.” Many interpreted…

Seconded on this being a delightful piece of tense fluff. I thought the scenes where Hiddleston was roughing it in that rural backwater dragged a bit, but once Hugh Laurie started stealing the show, I was hooked.

I like to think I'm pretty jaded by this point, but I'll freely admit Trump's thought patterns are too insane for even me to fathom.

Oh, I'm sure there's probably more tangled reasons behind Trump's sudden frostiness towards Bannon that we're still not aware of. But ending things over a Time magazine cover sounds so damn petty, and therefore so like Trump, that I can't help believing it.

I'm guessing he got tired of waiting for Obamacare to explode. I also think Trump has moved beyond our petty human conceptions of "help" and "loss" and now bases his actions on how well they massage his ego.

Never go full Habsburg.

I read somewhere that she's now the national princess in the court of the mad king, which sounds disturbingly believable.

His mind perhaps still distracted by the looming specter of the upcoming Easter Egg Hunt, Trump decided to strike another victory for “beautiful babies” everywhere by signing a resolution that allows states to withhold federal funds from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. There had been speculation that…

I'll never be passionate about James, personally, but I've grown fond of his company and I have much respect for his powerful style. Wilde, on the other hand, is always the life of the party.

Setting Poe aside for the moment, I didn't mention Hawthorne for two reasons. The first is that I didn't want to add to an already lengthy post. The second is that while I very much enjoy Hawthorne, particularly his short stories, I was trying to confine myself to writers that I thought could be considered modern in…

I'd be lying if I said I understood most of them either. That the poems look deceptively simple and are in reality as difficult as Shakespeare at times is another reason why I can see people wouldn't care for them.

Still not as impressive as the cake from "Matilda."

Melville is the first American novelist that I think qualifies as a giant of literature, and rightfully earns a spot next to Dickens, Tolstoy, and Cervantes. In terms of inaugurating modern American literature, he and the two others kindled the fire while Henry James sustained the blaze. After that, it wasn't such a…

Nonsense, he owes everyone money, even stuffy, pretentious penguins such as myself. But now I've said too much…

Trump likes foreign entities that don't control all the banks.

See, I heard he was trying to find Newton's long lost formula for the philosopher's stone, but I'll take that too.

I've always thought of Dickinson and Whitman, with Melville rounding them out, as the writers who first ushered American literature into the modern era. Dickinson herself was so fiercely intelligent that I still don't think we've fully caught up to her. Her verse, thankfully, is still treasured, and once you get into…

I suspect that in Trump's mind, the trade deficit as a concept is simply an image of sinister foreign entities continually robbing the U.S. of money and jobs. Thus, he'll chase after every far-flung dollar because his patriotism is nothing if not tremendous.

He's trying to coax China into doing something about North Korea by offering a sweeter trade deal, but I'm sure Trump will soon be spouting off about how no one could have possibly known how complicated international trade is.