My tweets

• Fri, 12:25: RT @StephenKing: Welcome to the age of plunder, bluster, and empty rhetoric. In other words, to the Age of Dumb. If you voted for him, you'…
• Fri, 13:09: RT @guardianopinion: The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s inauguration: a declaration of political war | Editorial https://t.co/mtI1vBBoXT
• Fri, 13:10: RT @TeaPainUSA: Q: What's the easiest way to get Trump to resign? A: Blockade all imported spray tan products and wait.
• Fri, 13:58: RT @MikeRoyce: "President Warren needs to own this recession and stop blaming Trump" - Republicans in 4 years and an hour
• Fri, 14:14: RT @guardian: Fact-checking the inaugural speech: the economy, crime, and hiring American https://t.co/YmTYzfMmjg
• Fri, 16:58: RT @jeffvandermeer: American Carnage: Term of art used to mis-characterize conditions in the U.S. in order to solve the wrong problems as c…
• Fri, 19:33: What Did Neanderthals Leave to Modern Humans? Some Surprises https://t.co/fLmLbUGTzl
• Fri, 22:20: RT @MrBigFists: The attendance for the Inauguration may seem light, but you have to understand how brutal the commute is from Moscow.
• Fri, 22:24: RT @jilevin: To all those Conservative voices who'd like to return to the golden days of a bye-gone era, consider this! https://t.co/wB1hbL…
• Fri, 23:15: RT @gwenmedia: If you are marching this weekend, here is some good info to know. #StaySafe #womensmarchlosangeles https://t.co/nu7TN7fYyY

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Press Briefings and Lying Liars

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It's been a few years since the daily press briefings on Vietnam used to report 100,000 Vietcong killed daily and ten American service men dead, and every day another victory even as the daily battles moved ominously closer to Saigon. It was harder then to check what happened in a land far away. It's not so hard to see what happens on the Mall.