- This week’s note in Trumpian “Alternative Facts” comes from CNN where simple math and documentation demonstrate that we now have a President who tells more than 7 lies a day on average. Yeah, it’s gone up.
- Tommy Christopher reports the many voices in my President’s head as Mr. Trump invents easily disprovable lies that insult Queen Elizabeth and Beyoncé within a few breathtaking moments. The lies themselves are petty and pointless. WotTheEl!!
- T. Paine, at Saving Common Sense, writes to dispute my characterization of, uh, inaccuracies in his articles about patriotism and San Francisco, and encounters a buzzsaw of reality combined with affection and respect. At least from me.
- At The Moderate Voice, David Robertson suggests that Donald Trump may not turn out to be the worst President ever. My choice would be Andrew Johnson, but there are several in close contention.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors gathers the data, then performs a brief point by point comparison of economic performance of Democratic and Republican Presidents over 50 years.
- Jonathan Bernstein explains that one of the few things Mr. Trump has learned how to do effectively as President is carefully endorse candidates in primary campaigns.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz looks past the revulsion at Trump crowds and sees an inner void. He perceives that they are, at the core, miserable people.
- Jon Perr at PERRspectives makes a compelling case that right-wing rage has veto power over American political life.
- Actually not related (I think), The Journal of Improbable Research discovers a study at Cornell into whether small dogs, urinating to mark territory, do so dishonestly by aiming high to create the illusion of height.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil brings us incidents from 1943 and the 1962 love affair the comic book world had with JFK’s PT-109. Don’t forget cinema and Cliff Robertson who was a hero himself in a different way.
- Infidel753 posts extraordinary accomplishments in photoshop forming dream images. Wonderful visions can begin in the imagination.
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