One lie leads to another: The right-wing Washington Examiner, of all news outlets, worked out the math and realized that Roy Moore’s claim about when he met his wife means he must have started dating her while she was still married. How did this guy ever learn the 10 commandments while he was chasing young leg all over northeast Alabama?
Forgot to include this in yesterday’s parade of sexual harassers, assaulters and predators: Luffah-loving ladies’ man Bill O’Reilly apparently forgot that the gag order on settlements runs both ways. One of his accusers has sued Billo because he’s been characterizing her 2002 settlement as a shakedown.
I see it every day; it happens to me a couple of times a week. Trump or the Republicans in Congress do something so evil I start to lose hope. When that happens, I turn to stories that affirm reality, like this one from Foreign Policy, which lays out all of the signs pointing to the Trump team trying to collude with a foreign power to win an election. He might not be impeached, he might not be convicted, but he’s guilty as sin and everyone knows it, even the Republicans who pretend not to.
One of our older readers took a swipe at millennials the other day because a rather high percentage of them “believe in” astrology, indicating they’re not so bright. My riposte: Millennials are smart enough to realize capitalism is a mug’s game. The anti-Communist Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was alarmed to find in a recent survey that 44 percent of millennials would prefer to live in a socialist country, compared with 42 percent who want to live under capitalism. The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg explains why.
The Russian doping scandal that led to the kleptocracy’s ban from the 2018 Winter Olympics broke a few months ago, but I had no idea why the guy who led the doping program — from, naturally, the nation’s “anti-doping” program labs — spilled the beans. The story is more incredible than anything scriptwriters could make up — it basically happened by accident because a documentary maker was looking for a doping expert.
I did not include links to the Jerusalem story because it’s obviously a provocation and might not lead to anything, or the Christina School Board asking for another year to consolidate schools, because of course it did. But here, for history buffs, is an obit of 1960s London party girl Christine Keeler whose affair as a teenager with a 40-something British politician brought down the entire Conservative government. Look how far we’ve come!