Drop by drop

I'm so old, I can remember when drug addiction was an urban crime problem, and the solution was more prisons and longer sentences.  Now that drugs permeate the white suburbs, it's a public health crisis.  The solution seems to be therapy, counseling, and even designated places where addicts can fix in safety, complete with clean needles.  Where's my Billie Holiday album?

There's a cable movie about Mark Felt, a/k/a "Deep Throat" of Watergate fame.  I don't know what Felt looked like, but the makeup and wig they put on Liam Neeson make him a dead ringer for Robert Mueller.  I'm sure it's a coincidence.

John McCain has barred Trump from his funeral.  He needn't worry.  Trump doesn't show up for any event where he isn't the center of attention.

Franklin Graham, heir to the Graham religion business, says Trump's flagrant adultery is nobody's concern.  With evangelicals like that, the atheists will soon be unemployed.

Jeff Bezos probably wishes he had hired Michael Cohen to "advise" him about the vagaries of the new administration.  Like AT&T, Novartis and the rest, who know the best way to live with thugs is to pay the extortion money.  I'm sure they do it in other shithole countries.

Go right now and read Ben Taub's "The Spy Who Came Home" in the May 7 New Yorker.  It will tell you exactly what's wrong with urban American policing, not to mention the "war on terror."

Provoking demonstrations in Gaza and a potential war between Israel and Iran seems a bizarre path to the Nobel Prize that Trump covets.  Provoking them for no reason except hatred of Obama and a need to kiss the ass of his fellow corrupt politician Netanyahu seems beyond insane.