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It’s Now Likely Mueller Thinks Trump Obstructed Justice Thursday’s bombshell news points toward one conclusion: The special counsel has the goods on the president. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/26/mueller-trump-obstruction-of-justice-russia-216532

Succinct summary of the facts to date. And the lessons of history. Donald Trump Wants to Fight the FBI? It’s a Suicide Mission. Presidents who take on the Bureau rarely win. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/26/donald-trump-wants-to-fight-the-fbi-its-a-suicide-mission-216533

EXACTLY what he looked & sounded like when I saw him live (him age 53) in 1982 at the Agora Ballroom in New Haven. thk u!

Think I have mentioned before that while resident at Jale in New Haven, I had two great assets: a friend with a car, and another friend whose girlfriend was a student whose parents had immigrated here from Sichuan province in their 20s. Thus this girlfriend spoke/read Cantonese. So just about every Saturday afternoon, we would load into the car and speed down to NYC. First the contemporary art museums (you never knew what madness might be in the new temporary exhibits there, and then seeing the Old Standbys never grew old either), then go on down into Chinatown for dinner. Where we had a standby favorite restaurant, where our Cantonese guide would order not off the printed sweet/sour English menu, but the native-character vertical-strip menus pasted to the wall up near the ceiling. Never ate better in my life! ...One recalls Nixon's advice to Reagan before RWR's first trip to China: 'Don't ask what it is, just eat it.'

Again... Per me si va ne la città dolente, per me si va ne l’etterno dolore, per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore: fecemi la divina podestate, la somma sapienza e ‘l primo amore. Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create se non etterne, e io etterno duro. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.

'For the love of God, Montresor!'

When an Amurrican goes into a Korean restaurant in the US, my former boss (who being from Australia knew everything ) revealed to me (us sitting in just such a very nice family-run Korean eatery in Cambridge, MA) that if you want natively hot Korean dishes -- not the denatured stuff they know to serve us round-eyes -- you have to ask for it as: Singapore-hot. [This is a true fact.]

It really was a cocked-up [sorry ] charge. One that knocked a bitterness into him that never left him. That linked article accurately gives the essence of it all.

This thread needs some spice!

I was thinking of Chuck's conviction on violation of the Mann Act. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/chuck-berry-is-arrested-on-mann-act-charges-in-st-louis-missouri

Quite the opposite!

One of the greatest social commentators/satirists/ironists of the 20th century. In fact maybe our own country's, and era's, Jonathan Swift. And in genre-transformative song!

'Alexander DeLarge, sir...'