I have a new hero today.

Since John McCain is alive and living well in Donald Trump’s brain, Trump felt the need to attack McCain on the campaign trail this week, saying that he was “never thanked for McCain’s funeral.”  Dude, you took the flags up from half staff the day after the funeral instead of waiting for a week.  It took everybody hollering at you over it to get you to lower them again.  Yeah, thanks a bunch.

Ex-Senator and Navy SEAL Bob Kerrey promptly requested of Trump, “Show us your bone spurs.”

Mr Kerrey demanded to see x-rays to prove the president really had the condition that allowed him to sit-out the conflict in south east Asia where McCain served as a pilot and was held captive in Hanoi between 1967 and 1973 after being shot down on a bombing raid.

I think that’s what every response needs to be over Trump bashing McCain.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Again, I don’t know a whole lot to tell you because depositions in the Jones care are still going on.  All I can say is that when I do get a few minutes to talk to Little Bubba, he is tired but happy.

I can tell you this.  The Jones lawyer in the Connecticut cases is not faring well.

Honey, it takes some real special abilities to be more unethical than Alex Jones.

And, if you listen to podcasts, This American Life is about Alex Jones this week and Mark’s client, Lenny Pozner is interviewed.  The show is called Beware the Jabberwock.  It is well worth your time, as is anything This American Life does.

It’s yet another PAC Scam.

A guy named John Gary Rinaldo changed his name to John Pierre Dupont in 2012.  With his new fancy name, he set up Super PACs in California and ripped people off to the tune of $250,000.

Among the scams he used were Businessmen for a Businessman President, Sanity in Politics, Beto 4 Senate, Democrats for Congress, Manchin for Senate, McCaskill for Senate, Stabenow for Senate, Rosen for Senate, Gillum for Florida Governor, Sanders for 2016 Campaign, Immigrant Children Reunited, and about 50 others, none of which got one single dime from John.

He’s 80 years old, dammit.  Shouldn’t he be working as a greeter at Walmart?

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen, who watches your money like a hawk, for the heads up.  

This could not happen in a normal world. This right here is living proof that we are living in weird times.

Mark the time and place: it started in Detroit.

A man trying to kill a cockroach ended up with a bullet wound in his foot Tuesday morning at a home in the 18700 block of Albion Street in Detroit.

Police said the 50-year-old man, who uses a wheelchair, threw his shoe at the cockroach in an effort to kill the bug. However, his revolver was inside the shoe. The gun fell out of the shoe, discharged and a bullet struck him in his foot.

Condition of the cockroach is unknown.

Guns are quite frivolous about where they aim when left on their own.

Thanks to Claudia for the heads up.

Thanks to BN for the heads up.

My friend Rutger just mentioned that maybe George Conway is the new Martha Mitchell.

My mouth fell open.  I think he’s right.

I have become a fan of podcasts.  I listened to Slow Burn from Slate and it’s well worth your time.  Season 1, Episode 1 of Slow Burn is entitled Martha.  I had largely forgotten about Martha Mitchell until I heard it and then suddenly, I saw that Nixon’s attempt to paint Martha as a crazy alcoholic was because she was right.  Well, that and the fact that she was a crazy alcoholic. But even alcoholics can tell the truth.

Slow Burn is well worth your time, and you’ll look at George Conway a whole different way if you remember Martha Mitchell.