I’m not as sharp as I used to be, so I see the pluses and minuses of the Senate Dems vote to end the shutdown as really complex. Maybe it’s a cop out but I’m still in wait and see mode. Mind you. I had to take Algebra I three times to pass it, and the third time was a gift.

The bigger the security detail, the greater the status. In Marie Antoinette’s day, it was the elaborateness of the carriage. Don’t laugh, but the way things are going, horse drawn carriages are next?

It would be interesting to know why so many Maine voters are willing to overlook what would normally be campaign ending facts. Could it be that our standards for our leaders have become so degraded that voters don’t care, as long as they like a candidate’s vibe?

Trump is, accidentally on purpose, forgetting that the American people own the White House, not him. What he’s doing is wrong, disrespectful, and an abuse of power.

Someone posted this on Bluesky a few days ago.

Why would the publisher assume that Nuzzi’s story will be correct? She had an affair with the subject of her reporting, lied to her editors when confronted with evidence that she was having the affair, and made questionable accusations against her ex-fiancé, which she ended up withdrawing.

This message is brought to you by… another terrible policy from the Trump Bad Idea Factory.