This week, Florida car salesman Gene Huber told CNN he salutes a life-size cutout of Donald Trump every day.
Isn’t that great, Melania? It’s like there are two of me.
- Intel leaks may be the best bet to prevent the end of American democracy, but an enduring “Deep State” could emerge.
- Yale historian Timothy Snyder talks Trump’s dictatorial threat.
- Garry Kasparov advises on how to prevent American autocracy.
- Jared Kushner isn’t a mitigating force but an enabler of Breitbart bigotry.
- Elon Musk, a Trump patsy, discusses cyborgism and Basic Income.
- Bradley Tusk has deeply amoral advice for Silicon Valley in the Trump Era.
- Trump’s myopia on terrorism may have dangerous consequences.
- Trump chair Steve Schwarzman’s birthday party featured acrobats and camels.
- America’s future shouldn’t be manufacturing but instead the “caring industry.”
- The Philippines is under the perilous sway of demagogue Rodrigo Duterte.
- Bad medicine and bad journalism fueled needless fears about vaccines.
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The UAE announced it intends to build the first Martian city by 2117.
- Old Print Article: Russia or robots may ruin America. (1950)
- Two brief notes from 1938 about a love potion.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Trump’s Russian business deals, etc.