So now Trump is explaining away the big losses on Election Day saying that Democrats vote, then they change clothes and vote again, then they change clothes and vote again, etc. He can't point to one person who did this, of course. The guy always claims Voter Fraud whenever a vote doesn't go his way and he never has any evidence.
His whole political career is based on the premise that you can make an accusation or a promise on Monday and just forget about it on Wednesday. Do you see any sign of that middle-class tax cut we were going to have before the election? Is that caravan of Evil Aliens still a threat? He may have to do some special back-pedaling on that one because we actually spent millions of bucks sending troops to places where, if the threat was true, they still wouldn't do any good…and they're still there because it would be too embarrassing to pull them off the job now.
And what the hell was that about how you need a voter I.D. (or any form of I.D.) to buy cereal? Didn't Orwell have something about that in 1984?
We seem to have a new outburst of utterly phony drawings by famous comic book artists and cartoonists on eBay. There are a lot of them and while diligent experts keep reporting them, eBay takes no action. Some of the sellers of the bogus sketches have been eBay sellers for a long time and have 100% positive ratings…but they're selling "Charles Schulz" drawings that were done years after his death and which sometimes even misspell "Schulz." There seems to be nothing we can do about this but to alert as many folks as we can to beware.
I still like Stephen Colbert a lot but his recent shows have been piling up unwatched on my TiVo. I'll get around to watching them soon — with much fast-forwarding — but I find myself in no great rush. My problem with him may surprise you: Too many Trump jokes. I'm all for ridiculing the guy but so many people on TV (and the 'net) are doing it that it's getting harder and harder to come up with good ones.
It's like on Colbert's show, they've decided the audience expects about twelve Trump jokes a night so they do twelve Trump jokes even when the writers can only come up with five good ones that day. Even Seth Meyers, who I see as the best guy doing this kind of thing lately, sometimes reaches too far. Something's wrong when I think they're picking on the guy.
Either comedians have to pull back a little on this or Trump's going to have to do stupider things or go for even more transparent lies. I fear I know which is more likely.
Lastly for now: I went to Costco yesterday. You can tell because I have a partially-eaten barbecued chicken in my refrigerator and my shelves are stocked with multiples of certain necessities. It still seems wrong to me that they'll sell you a jar containing a two-year supply of — let's say — vitamins but it's stamped with a notice to "use or discard" in two months. Don't get me wrong, though. I still love shopping there. Nothing beats excess except more of it.