If only Stalin knew! (e.g., thehill.com/blogs/pundit... )

And host a former Al Qaeda in Iraq leader in the Oval Office

My eyes agree with those sources

Damned indeed. He makes me want to believe in the Old Time Religion and Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

Does he have a compulsion, like a pathological form of "Horror vacui"? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_...

"Kristolshevik" perhaps?

We need a new political vocabulary all around. As a former "conservative" I've watched that term disappear into a vaporous cloud of contradictions. By some definitions I'd now be a "centrist," but I am more radical than some on "the left" when it comes to responding to the current crisis.

Looks like dinosaur habitat

I have gone through a few painful culls in recent years. For me, it's not only parting ways, it's finding good homes for the castoffs. And seeing so many lines of inquiry never followed and projects never completed. Ugh.

I have had trouble selling my surplus supply of L&L Friable Tablets (Lead & Laudanum.) Maybe I will finally start moving inventory now.

That's what I thought too. The polls and elections seem to back up the hypothesis.

Everything can change, but if the fragile truce in Gaza holds, do we really think it will be a decisive campaign issue a year from now?

I believe, even these benighted days, it is now clear to all that Dems wanted to make those 2026 insurance bills lower, but the GOP said, "no." Maybe I am naive.

It's hard to do that for all these places, but Chicago calls out for it. Makes me wistful for that brief era when people thought "micro payments" could save the news business

It's spreading like a fungal infection of the flesh. Ugh.