Clinton and Trump are primed, but the voters are . . . perplexed - The Washington Post
If you vote for the lesser of two evils you wind up with evil.
If you vote for somebody you don’t like just because you think the other guy is worse you wind up with somebody you don’t like.
Find somebody you want to win and, even if it’s only you, vote for that one.
From a Bloomberg Politics podcast (and the Washington Post)…
Mitch McConnell says Donald Trump “doesn’t know a lot about the issues” and has not displayed the requisite “seriousness of purpose” for the presidency.
From Justin Fox at Bloomberg View…
Donald Trump is going to kill Christmas.
From Roll Call…
Donald Trump is like Horace Greeley.
From just about everywhere…
Mitt Romney says Donald Trump is a bad candidate.
(Here’s looking’ at ya, Mittens.)
From the Huffington Post…
Donald Trump Trails Hillary Clinton Bigly [sic] In The Money Race
(Would that be bigly as opposed to littley, or something else?)
From Politico…
Meg Whitman compares Donald Trump to Hitler, Mussolini
And from Phillip Morris at the Cleveland Plain Dealer…
Donald Trump doesn't give a damn whether or not you think he's a racist.
So everybody’s happy then.
"So far Hillary Clinton is leading Bernie Sanders by 440,000 votes."
''Prior to Secretary Kerry, no secretary of state used a State.gov email address,' said Lang, supporting an explanation given by aides to the presumptive Democratic nominee for president that her email setup while at State was not unusual."
Before Kerry, not a single secretary of state going all the way back to John Jay has had a state.gov email address.
I’m from Chicago, kid. I know a fix then I see one, and it’s in.
Period. Full Stop. Point. Whatever It’s Called, It’s Going Out of Style - The New York Times
"“We are at a momentous moment in the history of the full stop,” Professor Crystal, an honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, said in an interview after he expounded on his view recently at the Hay Festival in Wales"
Where else would you learn about anything this momentous than at the Hay Festival in Wales?
This guy, Crystal, an English English geek, says the period is transitioning from punctuation mark to emoji, more or less (we are grateful that commas are still with us; without them, we’d be lost).
Also—English geek alert—the entire New York Times article by Dan Bilefski cited above is written without periods. Just mentioning.
And, as we’re talking about Englishy geek stuff here, has “enjoy” become the new “have a nice day”? All of a sudden it seems everybody’s telling me to enjoy.
Not likely, Bunky. And I’m not having a nice day either
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An ER Kicks the Habit of Opioids for Pain - The New York Times
"For patients with common types of acute pain — migraines, kidney stones, sciatica, fractures — doctors first try alternative regimens that include nonnarcotic infusions and injections, ultrasound guided nerve blocks, laughing gas, even “energy healing” and a wandering harpist."
If you hate folding laundry, this $850 machine is for you | New York Post
"But some kinks still need to be ironed out with FoldiMate, including its inability to fold underwear and larger items like sheets, as well as the need to clip clothing items individually onto trays."
We’ve been spelling the Verrazano Bridge wrong the whole time - NY Daily News
"Despite a new petition drive to make it right — the bridge is named for 16th-century Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (two Z’s) — the state authority that controls the span has stubbornly held to the one Z position it’s taken for years: We know it’s wrong, but we’re not changing it."
Clinton, Trump try to woo Sanders voters after June 7 primaries
"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) vowed to continue 'the struggle,' even as rival Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had pivoted to thanking supporters and slamming Republican Donald Trump. "
I’m getting dizzy.
"This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary. The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identity the media organization – incredibly – conceals. The decisive edifice of super-delegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, it’s only fitting that their nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward and undemocratic sputter."
Clinton, media still counting superdelegates despite DNC pleas - NY Daily News
"Hold up! Did the communications director of the DNC just say that superdelegates should not be counted because they are 'likely to change their mind,' that they basically did just that in 2008, and they 'shifted the results' by doing so? "
President Obama plans to campaign hard, with legacy on his mind - CNNPolitics.com
"Obama has telegraphed his desire to play an active role both at home in Washington and on the stump…"
Inside Hillary’s extravagant, $200K campaign wardrobe | New York Post
No kidding. I’ve only recently quit wearing t-shirts with software ads on them. Mostly. But…what?
Tribune Publishing renames itself — try not to laugh | New York Post
"'Congrats, Tribune, for abandoning one of America’s great corporate names to sound more like a Patriots tight end,' tweeted Daniel Fienberg, TV critic for the Hollywood Reporter."
When it comes to Donald Trump, trust these bookies over pundits | New York Post
"Sheridan said he believes Trump will be an even-money pick later this summer, especially if he makes a popular VP pick."
New Polls: The Libertarian Party is Poised for a Stunning Showing in November | RedState
“[A] national Rasmussen poll shows that [Libertarian candidate for president] Johnson is…poised to reach 8% nationally, which would lead the Libertarians to the promised land of Federal matching funds (which would of course lead to the hilarious question of whether the Libertarians would accept those funds)."
Warren pulls no punches in latest Trump attack - POLITICO
Donald Trump is an “insecure moneygrubber,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told the assembled Democrats of Massachusetts at the state’s party convention Saturday.
He is also, according to Warren's prepared remarks: Scary, loud, outrageous, offensive, small, a failure and fraudster-in-chief.
I need to bring her in for, uh, questioning | Boston Herald
"An 18-year-old man presented himself as an undercover police officer looking for suspects at the Hooters in Kochville Township, Mich. Turns out, he was just trying to get the names of the waitresses. Workers became suspicious when he returned later after having left the place on a skateboard."
And more.
