When all I can say about the presumed new Secretary of Defense is, "I've got a really bad feeling about this," David Brooks explains to me why I have that bad feeling. Thank you, PBS and NYT. We're in a place that requires competence and experience, and what we get is...well...

When the Democrats regain power (and they will), can we reinstate Al Franken? What he did seems pretty mild compared to the precedent being set by Trump as he names his "kitchen junk drawer."

"May you live in interesting times," is a curse I thought I had already suffered through in the 60s/70s/80s. Or eight years ago maybe.
More to come now, I guess.