2016 Dec 5^th

Trump gets more and more curious. (…or is it curiouser?) As most sapient beings now know, Trump loves to communicate on Twitter. This is a means of sending messages, limited to 140 characters, to the cell phone screens of willing recipients. Trump apparently uses the sending of these messages as a hobby on nights when he prefers not to sleep. There are many such nights.

Now comes a twist: the elite, those who have been critical of his royal trumpiness, can no longer receive these tweets, as the messages are called; their access to his tweets has been blocked. This isn’t a problem because the miscreant who has had the temerity to antagonize his trumpiness can simply change his twitter handle and start all over again. He then has a clean slate…sort of like being absolved of sin without having to participate in a confession. Perhaps the folks who have been banned by Trump will form a club. That’s a club I would love to join but, alas, I don’t have a twitter account. Sigh!

We now have Trump’s appointee for Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs. The new Secretary is Dr. Ben Carson. Dr. Carson is a pediatric neurosurgeon who surely knows his corpus callosum form his optic chiasm, but his experience supervising any group larger that than his operating theater helpers is nil. Carson was at one time well aware of this limitation and admitted that he was ill equipped to be a cabinet secretary of much of anything. But then comes the siren song of a cabinet position vs the certainty of political oblivion. Guess what he picks.

Most physician have a good deal of pride. This is what Trump said about Dr. Carson when Carson was still actively campaigning for the nomination:

“...he wrote a book. And in the book he said terrible things about himself. He said that he’s pathological and that he’s got basically a pathological disease. Now he wrote this I guess before he was running for office or thought that he was running for office. And I don’t want a person that’s got pathological disease. I don’t want it. I’m not saying he’s got it, he said it. This isn’t something that I’m saying, like “Oh, he’s pathological liar.” I’m not saying it! He said he’s got pathological disease. He actually said pathological temper. And then he defined it as disease. So he said he has pathological disease.”

After Trump says this about Carson he appoints Carson to a cabinet position anyway…and Carson accepts the appointment! What fine forgiving people we have here.