Top-rated opinion piece on WaPo right now from Kathleen Parker (admittedly, self-described "mostly right of center").

"She can’t let go.

She can’t stop talking about what happened. She wrote an entire book about it. Now she’s telling people in other countries about why she should have won. In India last weekend, she told an audience that she won in all the smart, cool places — and then hit a pandering low that puts a catalogue of others to shame.

You gotta give Trump credit, he isn't going to let little things like criminal behavior get in the way of what he wants. In this case he's making a big deal of having the first woman Torturer/CIA director.

Here are articles I wrote about Hillary's brain deterioration. A non-medical way would be to call it brain rot--the meaning's the same. I am not going to cite from these articles for today's essay but there is plenty of material for both novice and expert to learn.

I happened across this absolutely horrible Buzzfeed article about Markos' new polling project.
It's a bootlicking, brownnosing, sycophantic article that you shouldn't read on a full stomach.

That being said, way down deep in the article I found this gem.

While the news media is fixated on more turmoil in the White House, Defense Secretary Mad Dog Mattis was in Afghanistan.

The Democratic Party favorability hit a new all-time low. Gee, maybe they aren't talking about Russia enough?

It's no surprise that Republicans hate Democrats, but it's a problem that only 23% of Independents like Democrats. The only good news in this poll is that people hate Republicans even more.

It should come as no surprise to anyone with walking around sense that there is something terribly wrong with the USA. It is broken and broken at a deep level. I think perhaps it always has been.