This is what consultants do. It is hard to imagine how Exxon survived Rex Tillerson. He engaged two pricey consultancies, and he didn’t even get a t-shirt out of it. It’s possible to argue that the State Department needed some reorganization. The one substantive suggestion I’ve seen coming out of Tillerson’s shop (as distinct from …
Trump Steps In It – Open Thread
Big Donald loves him some projection. As is my preference, I’ve screenshot his tweets. And Twitter lights up with the Access Hollywood tape, the accusations of rape, Trump backstage at teenage beauty pageants…
Shep Smith Explains Uranium One
And he does a good job of it. For your rightwing relatives who want to “Lock Her Up.” And the New York Times. Fox's Shep Smith takes apart the Uranium One conspiracy his Fox News colleagues have been relentlessly hyping pic.twitter.com/HZBlBtFvo4 — Media Matters (@mmfa) November 14, 2017
Tuesday Morning Hearing Thread
Update: Okay, between Google’s inability to return what seems to me to be the obvious and Cspan’s confusing way of presenting things, along with my juggling six things at once, let me do a total remake of this post. Apologies for the confusion and non-embeddedness. Two big hearings today: Jeff Sessions before the House …
Evening No-Politics Open Thread
A neighbor across the arroyo has a big old cottonwood tree that is just gorgeous at this time of year. I’m about ready for an open thread without politics, too. How’s the weather in your part of the world?
It’s Gonna Get Worse…
When news of the Trump campaign’s wrongdoing surfaces, like Julia Ioffe’s scoop today, my feelings are always mixed. On the one hand, I can go along with the predominant feelings of the threads here, the anticipation of the actors in orange jumpsuits, the anger at what they’ve done to our country, the hope that our …
As You Like It Bread
There was a complaint that there haven’t been enough recipes lately, so here is one of my faves. I developed it from a much older recipe that made four loaves, two white, one carrot-raisin, and one molasses spice. Four is far too many for me, so I cut it in half and then experimented …