Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I'm still reading the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and thinking about your point yesterday that all's fair in politics. Hey, it worked for the Romans, amiright?

Neoliberal economics has left us with a system where the almost only rule is power.

Nobody likes a playa hater.

My equating HRC's emails with Stupid Watergate (Hat tip, Oliver) was intended to point out why I cared about neither. Was HRC guilty if something? The answer is, Who cares? She was the subject of a witch hunt, so if she destroyed a paper trail, I give her a pass. I believe you have s right to thwart an unjust political investigation. Similarly, was Trump's campaign guilty of colluding with Russians to help him to win? Seems pretty clear something was going on in that regard. And we should know about it. And perhaps technical crimes may be found. But politics in this modern, naked money-and-power-are-the-only-rules world is such that one must ask: What Campaign wouldn't take a call from Russians (or anyone else) offering "the goods" on an opponent?