Trump

News item: The science division of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is now empty. The last staffers are gone. I guess it's a question whether they will be replaced. The Republicans have long preferred that their fiat should rule reality rather than any silly science.

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter thought of the day: "First the left tried to destroy the West with communism, today they're using immigration."

I like the West's odds better at destroying the globe through its Frankenstein offspring known as consumerism. But it probably all has to end someday anyway one way or another.

1994

I was working on some journal entries from 1994, when I heard a door opening or shutting from across the house, and my first thought was that it might be mother, perhaps getting up from a nap and getting ready to go outside and smoke a cigarette. It was just a flash of a thought, less than a second, but it felt real.

Trump

Trump tweets, "My use of social media is not Presidential - it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!"

David Frum comments, "'It's modern day presidential!' is about to become the tag line for every frat brother under discipline for throwing up on the carpet."