Credit where credit is due. My father loved the phrase “sundry assortment” with its embedded redundancy. An assorted assortment with its, oh, I don’t know, je ne sais quoi quality to it. This post feels like just such an assortment. Robert Mueller: The Sartorialist It was reported with much humor that Robert Mueller had Paul Manafort’s closet …
James Comey served as the seventh director of the FBI from September 4, 2013 to May 9, 2017. Make what you want of his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee last week but what is most disturbing is not the testimony, but the facts. Oh and Viva loves regurgitating indisputable facts because this is where the …
Oh my! What to say? Oh what a tangled, messy dance card. My question for today at the moment: How much of US foreign policy is now driven by Trump business concerns? Monday, five (5) Arab nations cut ties — diplomatic and otherwise — with Qatar, a country rich by virtue of geography over huge oil …
Hmm. Yesterday the Justice Department appointed special counsel, Robert Mueller, to investigate the ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. And the (initial) response of President Trump was to point at the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton’s campaign, witch hunts … On a business trip in Denver, CO several years ago, a t-shirt in a …
I love a good analogy. But how do we determine if an analogy is “good”? For me an analogy is good if I’m able to draw a clear picture connecting something I know nothing about to something I know something about. Fair enough. But analogies fall apart and the connection of politics and elections to merely …