Have you seen Amy Patrick’s viral Facebook post?  “Let’s have border security, by all means,” she says, “but let’s be smart about it. [The wall] is not smart. It’s not effective. It’s NOT cheap. The returns will be diminishing as technology advances. This is a ridiculous idea that will never be successfully executed and, […]

How does a 41-year-old stay sharp enough to quarterback his sixth Superbowl victory?  He uses BrainHQ.

You or your parents should, too, because a peer-reviewed ten-year 2,800-subject study showed that doing just a few hours of these exercises dramatically lowered the incidence of dementia.  And more than 100 other peer-reviewed papers have added to the […]

Okay, I just threw in Satan.  But you have to watch Get Me Roger Stone on Netflix.  So much will come clear — undisputed by Stone. Indeed, proudly proclaimed.  He and his business partners Paul Manafort and Lee Atwater for decades served the dark side of human nature, representing murderous dictators, elevating lobbying and political […]

Warren Buffett’s got to be just about the smartest guy around.  But who impresses him?

I would have guessed he’d say the smartest guy he knows is his long-time partner Charlie Munger.  And I’m pretty sure he has said that a lot.  But according to one of you who plays bridge with him from time […]

One dearly hopes Howard Schultz — a good man, for sure — sees the light and stands down from his disastrous idea to become the next Ralph Nader / Jill Stein / Ross Perot.  A super friendly Starbucks boycott until he does might help him see that light — and save us $5 a day […]

From the left . . . Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, profiled here with the frame: “Democratic attacks on AOC expose the party’s fear of taking on moneyed interests.”  It concludes:

. . . For too long, disagreements in the Democratic Party have been kept behind closed doors, and the result was the protection of powerful financial […]

Or at least used to joke that she did.

“When you boys are older,” she would tell my brother and me, “that’s what I want you to get me.”

We’d laugh; and I did once get her a pretty expensive model.

But are you kidding me?  A real Rolls costs $366,000 plus tax.  […]

From the Huffington Post:

Two Years In, The Republican Party Faces An Uncertain Future In Trump’s Image
Whether by resignation, impeachment, a 2020 loss or finishing a second term, Donald Trump one day will no longer lead the GOP he has so radically transformed. So then what?
By S.V. Date

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So far, Putin’s managed, via Trump, to end the American Century, weaken our alliances, decimate our State Department, shut down our government, coarsen our discourse, and deepen our divisions.

What, Salon asks Ambassador McFaul, if he wins?

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