Raise your hand if you thought the Trump family fortune was achieved by following all tax laws to the letter. Yeah, thought so. Still, the New York Times deserves credit for investing thousands of man-hours to ferreting out all the ways the Trumps cheated the IRS, and for determining that the “$1 million loan” with which Donnie Two Scoops founded his “self-made” “fortune” was 413 times larger than that. Republicans are busy pretending it doesn’t matter.
Americans love to bandy about the words “genius” and “brilliant” but clearly have no idea what they actually mean. I keep reading, despite all the evidence available, that Brett Kavanaugh is “brilliant,” a fiction that the past week ought to have dispeled, and that Kanye West is a “genius,” something he disproved again on Saturday Night Live. He praises Trump because he knows a malignant narcissist when he sees one, mainly from admiring himself in the mirror so much. I think his ultimate goal is to be a bigger ass than his wife’s.
Interesting story on population changes in congressional districts that will help determine the post-2020 census redistricting. Texas is still growing fast, I suppose because people who know they’re bound for Hell figure they might as well get used to it beforehand.
More bad news on the climate change front: feedback loops are speeding up the warming in the Arctic, which in turn is speeding up the warming elsewhere. Worth remembering that Brett Kavanaugh will drown with the rest of us.
Americans are really fucked up when it comes to sex. How else to explain the opposition to the first proposed sex-robot brothel in Houston. They can’t give a rational reason it should be illegal — it’s pretty hard to find a victim in this “crime” — but they just know it should be. The ones who should be complaining are the sex workers who would lose their jobs to automation.
Speaking of sex, I’m leaving out all the Kavanaugh coverage because it would be outdated by noon.