Here’s a starting place …

If anyone is looking for a good porn star to make whoopee with while married, I strongly suggest you don’t retain the services of Stormy Daniels.

If anyone is looking for an EPA Director without kinky ideas about phone booths or a shopping addiction, I would strongly suggest that you not retain the services of Scott Pruitt.

If anyone is looking for a pleasantly foul-mouthed White House Director of Communications who can help you with your PR problem while not drawing attention to himself, I would strongly suggest that you not retain the services of Anthony Scaramucci.

If anyone is looking for a Chief Strategist who people trust, looks professional, and won’t write a bad book about you, I strongly suggest that you not retain the services of Steve Bannon.

If anyone is looking for a National Security Advisor who doesn’t do that squat dance wearing a Russian bear hat while whistling “Power to the Putin” and “Lock her up!”, I strongly suggest you not retain the services of Michael Flynn.

If anyone is looking for a campaign advisor who is not Putin’s boy toy and who freely yaks to the special prosecutor, I would strongly suggest that you not retain the services of George Papadopoulos.

You know this could go on forever, right?  Feel free to add your own.

While the nation was reeling under the tsunami of convictions, plea deals, and indictments yesterday, John Cornyn was blithely unconcerned.  In a media scrum late yesterday he dismissed courtroom events, saying,

“People who do bad things, who break the law, need to be held accountable, but this doesn’t add anything to the allegations of misconduct relative to the Russia investigation.  How does this implicate the president? I don’t think it implicates him at all, especially on the Russia investigation.”

To say this, Cornyn would have to be simply bald-faced lying or be the victim of a very effective lobotomy.  The point: Cohen pleaded guilty to illegally paying off a Playboy model and porn star to keep them silent and influence an election for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.  He said UNDER OATH in a federal court that he did it at the direction of his former boss, Trump.  It doesn’t get much more illegal (or obvious) than that.  For Cornyn to stupidly proclaim that it doesn’t implicate Trump in that crime lays bare his own corruption and unsuitability for high office (or any office for that matter).

The Trump clown car, now with two flat tires and a leaking head gasket, is still running enough to keep only the sell outs aboard.  Everybody else has fallen off (or are on their way to jail).

There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.

I’ve been called away for some unexpected good news.  I’ll be back this afternoon.  So, talk amongst yourselves.

Manafort guilty on 8 counts.  Ten other counts are deadlocked.  It’ll be interesting to see the split on those other counts.

Cohen pleads guilty later today.

Warning: DUCK! Expected tweet storm upcoming.

If you missed Lanny Davis on Maddow tonight, try to find it.  According to Davis, Cohen will talk to whoever will listen and he’s got the goods.

And ….

It was a bad night for Republicans.  The second congressman to endorse Trump was indicted today for stealing money from his campaign donations.  Duncan Hunter joins the crook club.

The Fort Bend County, Texas, sheriff’s department has long provided a rich market for discriminating shenanigan collectors.  It’s kinda like if you had a teevee show like American Pickers but called it American Stoopid.  You could film every episode right here.

The sheriff gets to decide how to spend the money seized from drug dealers.  The guidelines are fairly vague about how they spend it, just saying that it has to be for law enforcement.  Sheriff Troy Nehls once spent it on life-size automated shows of himself (you know, like he’s princess Leia) speaking with creepy unmoving eyes about the courthouse rules. It scared the crap outta little children and Thelma filed sexual assault charges over that creepy eyes thing.

This time, they bought a muscle car.  Take a look.

and they explain it.

They intend to use this car to drive around to schools to show little kids not to take drugs.  The on the side of the car, they blissfully ignorantly painted, “This Car was Purchased by Drug Dealers.”

Okay, so you see why little kids want to be drug dealers. Drug dealers can buy cars like this.

Seriously, someone had to approve this advertisement. I want to meet them. So I can slap them.

Let me introduce you to Republican State Senator Konni Burton from Fort Worth. She’s a doozy, Honey.  Konni describes herself as a wife, mother, and lifelong Christian.  I describe her as a money-grubbing, intolerant hypocrite.

Texas does not have a state income tax.  Texas funds government through property taxes.  That’s pretty fair because if you are rich enough to have lots of property or a big fancy pants house, you pay more taxes.  Guess who has lots of property? Konni Burton.

Burton has a nice home near Fort Worth, two beach condos in Port Aransas, and a hundred acre chunk of property near Waco.

So, she’s seeking to change this whole tax business.

Konni wants to do away with property tax in favor of a consumption tax.  Anybody with a pencil can tell you that means a 25% sales tax.  On everything. School supplies, new cars, underpants, and even, according to Konni, house sales.

Okay, I can see all the good folks in Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico rubbing their hands together because Texans are going to fund their schools and government. For example, I can drive to Louisiana in two hours.  They have a Costco in Louisiana. So, if I go stock up for myself and a couple of neighbors and spend $500 at Costco, I save myself over a hundred bucks and use that money to go to a casino or eat gumbo.

But, Honey, I’m not going to go live in Louisiana and that’s why property taxes work.