Political Theatre category archive

Shaun Mullen catches us up on this week in the collusion.

Leonard Pitts, Jr., is cautiously hopeful that “both sides do it” might falling out of favor. Here’s a snippet:

. . . neither fairness nor balance requires us to report discredited and disreputable information.

Follow the link for context.

Via Juanita Jean.

What scares me most is that I am certain that Donald Trump believes what he says at the moment he says it, even if he said the exact opposite two minutes earlier (which he also believed the moment he said it). The man is unmoored from fact or truth.

In related news, Florence has already overflowed–all over my in box: Every pol who has my name on a mailing list is sending me advice on how to prepare for Florence to show how much he or she cares about my money.

Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

Aside:

Man(ual) pages are extensive help files present on all *nix operating systems. To see one for [some command], enter “man [some command]” on the command line and the man page will display.

Some of them are much better written than others. Like encyclopedias, they are lousy for learning, but useful for reference.

From the web page:

Seth takes a closer look at President Trump calling for an investigation into the New York Times’ anonymous op-ed and slamming Bob Woodward’s book about the chaos in the White House.

Edwin Yoder, Jr., comments on Donald Trump’s manner of governance. A snippet:

The White House gossip may not be reliable and may or may not signal mental pathology. But the common denominator is a monstrous egotism and chronic bad manners. It seems not to occur to Trump that McMaster, one of several discarded National Security advisers, as a lifelong public servant may not be able to afford thousand-dollar suits, or that Deep South drawls don’t necessarily signal dimwittedness.

Via Job’s Anger.

Headline of the Day:

Opinion: If Trump were a CEO, his board would have fired him by now