what if lorde is the robot Read more

Special Projects desk is on the job. Read more

I have it on good authority that Lorde was born in Kenya on August 4, 1961. Read more

HMMMMM Read more

how-old also seems to think that Ted Cruz is a woman, that might be worth looking into as well... Read more

It’s mourning in America! Read more

NYT: He will sometimes set off to explore the unfamiliar surroundings of his new home. Read more

What would it look like if Trump were suffering from dementia? However Bannon wanted it to. Read more

I’m not the first to put this theory forwad, but my Aussie friend told me the consensus in Australia is that Trump wasn’t paying attention for the briefing prior to his call with Turnbull, so when an aide handed him the phone and said, “here’s PM Turnbull of the Australian Liberal Party” Trump just assumed Turnbull… Read more

my favorite bit of information in regards to Reagan is that his advisors would have the pilot rev up the helicopter engine in the background when ole Ronnie met with the media so he couldn’t hear their questions:

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Full disclosure: my mother is going through this. When I hear Trump speak, all I can hear is the same paranoia and misunderstanding of facts combined with the repeating of words and phrases over and over. Read more

Well, it’s reassuring to see what a blast he and his guests were having at his Super Bowl dinner party in Florida. You can’t buy this kind of excitement. I really doubt someone with dementia could be having such fun. All the men have erections and all the women are ovulating, left and right.

This whole page won’t load for me for some reason, but how about how he didn’t realize he permanently appointed Bannon to the NSC? “Oh, well...I don’t know. It all happened very fast, and then the man looked like he was nice, so I bought the timeshare and then...oh my...” Read more

Too be fair, if Giuliani were sitting in front of me, I might not recognize him at first either. I’d probably just assume that I was hallucinating some kind of ghoul.
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“I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.” Read more

Something like this...

What a strange and wholly unconnected set of events! Read more

The back half of the Reagan Administration? Read more

This has a family resemblance to the Mechanical Turk operation that created the base dataset used by Mercer’s Cambridge Analytica. (And by the way, why hasn’t Aleksandr Kogan at Cambridge been hit with a human subjects complaint? Do they not have IRBs in the UK?)
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