• “As I went walking, I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said:
‘ยฉ Ludlow Music, a subsidiary of the Richmond Organization, Member ASCAP. All Rights Reserved.’
But on the other side it didn’t say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.”
• The Cool PopeTM says your marriage is invalid because you don’t hate divorce enough, you bad, bad people.
• A debilitating vaccine-caused injury is miraculously cured by hidden cameras. (My favorite part is her claim that the shot caused her to spontaneously develop an Australian accent. All along we thought that was just how Australians talked; now we know that it’s the vaccines’ fault.)
• The Baptist News says that American atheists feel safer going public with their atheism than ever before, but delicately avoids the question of why open atheism might ever have felt unsafe.
• “Politics is not about your personal catharsis.”
• When I wrote about why Donald Trump will lose the presidential election, there was one reason that I didn’t foresee but that’s loomed increasingly large: He’s scarcely even running a campaign.
Recent reports say that Trump’s campaign has just 30 field staff for the entire country, and hasn’t bothered to fill key roles like a communications team or a rapid response director. He hasn’t even started running ads, while the Clinton campaign is already hammering him in swing states. When asked to call a list of wealthy GOP donors, he only managed to get through three before getting bored and giving up.
It seems what he likes is being on TV and holding rallies where he’ll draw worshipful crowds to feed his ego. He’s dismissive of the tedious, unglamorous, but essential work of fundraising and boots-on-the-ground organizing. That’s what you’d expect from a narcissist, and it’s one more anchor dragging down a campaign that’s already got a boatload of them.