I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a picture that captured the weirdness of Donald Trump’s hair quite like this one. I was thinking of putting in lines like an infographic. But just take a look. (Click the headline of this post to see a larger version of the photo.)
I confess I didn’t know TV legend Norman Lear was still alive. But he’s still kicking — and working — at 93. TPM’s Tierney Sneed interviewed him yesterday about that famous 1972 All In The Family episode on homosexuality which got way under Richard Nixon’s skin. We also have a never-before-seen clip of Lear from a yet-to-be-released documentary as he reacts to hearing Nixon on his secret tapes griping about the show “glorifying homosexuality.” Lear’s take, all these years later, is worth a watch.
From Reader AS on my post about the 24 day inspection timeline in the Iran nuclear deal …
The 24 days is probably more bogus than you said.
Nit picking about the 24 days is sort of like trying to dispute different details of climate change research. Specialists look at all of the details, and come up with an opinion. Critics, who generally don’t know what they’re talking about, find some odd research result, and try to blow it up and use it to spread doubt.
They’re doing exactly the same thing here. Detecting work on nuclear weapons in a country like Iraq is a hard and complicated technical problem. Almost none of the people talking about it in the popular press (or me) understand it at all. But people who do understand it seem to have formed a consensus that the plan in the deal is serious and well designed. It is, by all accounts, the most strict inspection regime ever devised, tighter than anything ever implemented anywhere.
Stanley Aronowitz claims we should be grateful for Trump’s candidacy.
TPM Reader JB captures a significant slice of the story …
Trump’s comments are erratic, but I think at bottom he is very disciplined and always on his message: “I win.” Everything he does and says builds on this same core pitch, which he laid out in his opening campaign speech:
Do you feel like a loser? Well, guess what, you should. You are losing. We are losing. To the Mexicans. To the Chinese. To Iran. To bossy women. To Everybody. It is not morning in America; we suck right now. You suck.
People say strange things. They think strange things. They do strange things. Accepting this fact is the first step to getting along in the world and not being constantly surprised and discomfited. I just read this article/interview with Leon Wieseltier in the Times of Israel, an English language Israeli paper catering to anglophone Israelis and American Jews. The gist of the article is that Leon continues to really, really dislike Benjamin Netanyahu but thinks he’s for once right on the Iran nuclear deal. As you’d expect, I entirely agree with him on Netanyahu and almost as resoundingly disagree with him on the Iran deal. His arguments are ones you’ve heard before on both sides and aren’t really what concern me in this case.
It’s this line down at the bottom about Obama being “the first US president who doesn’t really have a special feeling for Israel.”
Jimmy Carter: “Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body.”
Trump now crushing rivals in Iowa too. Jeb in 7th place. Walker’s numbers tumble. Rubio in 9th place.