Lesser of Two Evils

What is the lesser of two evils -- Trump calling the country Haiti a "shithole" or the Clintons' stealing $1.3 billion of earthquake relief funds from this same country? See: National Review Article.

Sidebar; President Truman once called something a "pile of manure." A reporter then asked Bess Truman if she couldn't get her husband to say "fertilizer" instead of "manure?" She replied that it had taken her many years to get him to say "manure" ...

Things I Don’t Get

Why:

-        Are cats always on the wrong side of a closed door?

-        Does “global warming” cause brutally cold winters?

-        Are politicians so often corrupt?

-        Don’t religions of the world reconcile themselves with science?

-        Does having sex with another man make you want to talk swishy?

-        Do movie stars and professional athletes use so many illicit drugs?

-        Is there and inverse relation with a restaurant’s serving size and its expense?

-        Are the Clintons so popular?

-        After all these years, is there still no cure for the common cold?

-        Do people expose so much of their lives on social media?

-        Would someone buy an all-electric car that only goes a hundred miles on a charge?

Old News

There must be a half life to scandals … and so, the Clinton's just released, this past Friday night, a dump of many documents from the Clinton Library relating to their numerous sordid scandals … Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, the pardoning of Mark Rich, Vince Foster, etc. … see: UK Telegraph Story and News10 Story. (The bigger the scandal, the longer must be the half-life ...) Many of these documents were heavily redacted and some were held back altogether. To use a tired old chestnut, this document dump was clearly and cynically meant to inoculate the Clinton's against further use of this information. In any future discussions they can, with a dismissive wave of the hand, offer the pusillanimous slight, “That’s old news!”

I find it very curious that good (or I might say evil) politicians seem to sense the exact timing of the aging process of scandalous stories in which they are involved. Thus, Hillary Clinton can put off any testimony about Benghazi until the American people (and the media) will dismiss any damaging revelations as “old news.” (Somehow Nixon never found the exact timing of this half-life process … although he surely tried.) I, on the other hand, react entirely the opposite way. Seeing politicians play this game of rope-a-dope just incites my outrage even more ... at this politician … and at the American people for allowing themselves to be so easily manipulated.

I guess I am forever cursed with my out-of-step mind.

And even more curious, after a sufficiently long delay (using some mysterious formula), the public may again have an appetite for the details of a particular scandal … the Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson affair comes to mind. How do I respond to such ancient revelations? My normal reaction is, “That’s old news!”