You'd think that an upside of my new marital status might be that at least I don't have to watch HGTV anymore, but believe it or not, my daughters have gone over to the dark side. Consequently, we have "conversations" like:
Girl: So, dad, if you could change one thing about this house, what would it be?
Old Man: How about the channel the TV is turned to? And have you done your math yet? I think the Gophers are playing.
The shows are predictable as an episode of Law & Order. Three houses, three suspects, and, just when the authorities have zeroed in on one, a twist! A real roller-coaster of a ride! Also, I do not understand why everyone is always blathering about this "space" and that one--their openness, their airiness, their lightedness, the size or cramp quotient of what were once called "rooms"--while expressing no interest whatever in the quality of the schools or, in the event they're looking in Minnesota, proximity to a good liquor store.
With respect to the Religious Right's Trump love, I've never really accepted that it could be all about the appointment of right-wing jurists to the federal judiciary. Now, reading between the lines of this Buzzfeed story, some are advancing the theory that Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife had a frolic with a pool boy at a luxury hotel before setting him up in business with funds from their Religion Hustle. That they set him up in business with a 6-figure sum isn't disputed, and it seems the frolic is filling in as a motive until the Falwells supply the true, pious one. When Team Trump sniffed the news, Mr Fixer, aka Michael Cohen, paid Falwell a visit, and--voila!--the evangelist and Liberty U president soon thereafter publicly endorsed Candidate Trump. It would be like in The Godfather, only the characters are less likable.
I was recently musing about how many Republican senators might vote to remove Trump from office if, Articles of Impeachment being adopted in the House, the matter were then to proceed to a Senate trial. I have since learned that there are currently serving in the Senate 15 Republicans who voted to throw Bill Clinton out of office for obstruction of justice--either they were then in the House and voted to impeach him (Blunt, Burr, Graham, Moran, Portman, Thune, and Wicker), or they were already in the Senate and voted to convict him (Crapo, Enzi, Grassley, Hatch, Inhofe, McConnell, Roberts, and Shelby). Some day in the future, it may be amusing to listen to these guys compare and contrast the relative merits of the Clinton and Trump impeachment cases. I'm sure they'll be asked, and I'm pretty sure they're at least tentatively determined to conclude that the facts of the Clinton case were much worse. But many people who should know--Trump, preeminently--are acting as if, when the evidence is in, the case against the current president is going to be pyrotechnic.
I should mention that Hatch gets a pass, because if it comes to it, he'll have moved to a Wax Museum in Utah from the one at the Capitol where the votes are cast.
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