Sorry but I have a lot on my plate these days…and I'm also way behind in answering the e-mails that I think I ought to answer, too. This condition may persist for a little while.
The Inspector General of the State Department has finally issued the long-awaited report on e-mail retention practices and what Hillary Clinton (and others) did right and wrong. Turns out, as we already knew, there was much wrong but there's no evidence of deliberate misdeeds or of any actual breaches of security. The whole thing is one of those matters that is an outrageous scandal if you are opposed to Hillary Clinton and a minor screw-up if you aren't. More and more, it's obvious that that's how we now roll in politics: A scandal is only a scandal when you can use it to attack the enemy. Even Republicans who were recently outraged over things Trump has said and done have remembered that party outranks principles and his transgressions can be overlooked as easily as Democrats can overlook things they wish people named Clinton hadn't said or done. It's been a while since I've seen any outrage that didn't conform to those rules.
Judging by new leaks of that old deposition, Bill Cosby seems to be in more trouble than we thought. Last December, we quoted legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin here as saying, "It's a good guess that Cosby will end 2016 in prison — and that he will end his life destitute." That seemed like an extraordinary prediction at the time but now it makes me wonder if someone showed Toobin that deposition back then.
Back to stuff that takes precedence over blogging…