The other F bomb

If you are one of those people who are getting weirded out by the current political climate, and particularly with the whole Trump vibe, you're not alone. Recently Robert Kagan, a Brookings Institution fellow often regarded as a neocon published an op-ed in the Washington Post titled "This is how fascism comes to America."  Shortly after that, the NY Times published this piece about how the Trump campaign has helped spark a global debate about the F word.

Thing is, I didn't like it the first time around. In fact, my dad and two uncles spent a good chunk of the 1940s fighting against it. I'm hoping it's a false alarm but this isn't the kind of thing to ignore.

Drop everything

A friend just sent me a link to this Australian news story about a helicopter disabled by a goat while on a mission of mercy. Clarification: the helicopter, not the goat, was the one on the mission. A goat on a mercy mission would REALLY be news.

Off topic, one bill being kicked around at the bad idea factory, aka WV legislature, is photo ID/voter suppression. Here's a good take on this from the Huntington Herald-Dispatch.

And one more for the road: here's a recent poll of presidential favorites in WV with some surprising results.