Phew

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The cardinals have chosen a new pope. White smoke is rising from the Sistine Chapel's chimney.

I'm just glad it's not orange smoke.

This Week's Quote

 

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If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

George Takei

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Our Own Harshest Critics?

 

The Anti-Trump Wave

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Over the weekend, Anthony Albanese capped a dramatic comeback against conservatives to win a second term as Australia's prime minister. Voters' concern over Donald Trump was a significant factor—just as it had been days earlier in Canada, with similar results.

I'm digging this anti-Trump sentiment abroad. In fact, I'd love to import some to this country, but who can afford the tariffs?

Twine Whine

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I'm interrupting this period of general American calamity to bring you my moment of specific lesbionic misery.

Three players on my WNBA team have now torn their ACLs and will be out for the season, before the season's even begun.

All right, it doesn't rate compared to the demise of due process, civil rights, and checks and balances. But I was relying on a strong Seattle Storm team to serve as my essential distraction from Trump World.

Those players' knees have no regard for my mental health.

President #9

 

Aiming High

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"I’d like to be pope," Donald Trump told reporters this week. "That would be my number one choice."

That was allegedly a joke. Sen. Lindsey Graham followed with his own bootlicking frivolity on X, urging the papal conclave to keep an open mind, and noting the "first Pope-U.S. President combination has many upsides."

Given Trump's endless need to feed his ego, he might just skip pope and declare himself God. And the servile Graham would declare, "It's true! I saw him turn wine into ketchup!"