If you are boarding a plane and see a 79 year old pilot at the wheel, are you fine? For millions, apparently...

If anyone ever had the madness to entertain the thought that their doddering, near-octogenarian grandfather might end up commanding the most powerful military in the world, now would be the time to resurrect, and contemplate, that notion...

Todd makes me blanch...

Probably OK for the Iranians to stay home. They watched JD's Atlanta TP debacle and figured, is this the guy for the job?

Kristi better hope she didn't bury Crickett anywhere near a Pet Sematary...there'd be hell to pay.

Sadly, I don't actually listen to this guy anymore. I just flush the toilet and figure I'm good.

If Roy Orbison hadn't written all of his songs to span across three-and-a-half octaves, I believe I could cover them all.

If Don really wants to imprint his signature on D.C. architecture, he should be pushing for a triumphal Golden Arches, beef-tallowed fries and all, and replete with a fake DoorDash slinger...

JD to the Pope: "When it comes to talking about theology, you should stay in your own lane." Papal Reality: Talking about theology IS the Pope's lane. It's his goddamn freeway!

This Don fella seems to have a tough time making -- and keeping -- close friends. Or acquaintances of any type, for that matter. Probably a bit of a warning sign, right?

Don fired Pam in a post on Social. When it comes to firing people, he's much like Ronald Reagan. Neither had the courage to do it in person. Lacks executive potential, to say the least...

Joe Buck was also the name of Jon Voight's character in "Midnight Cowboy." It's all starting to make sense...

Bobby gets (rotator) cuffed by the courts. (I interviewed him circa 2004. Seemingly a very decent guy. Brain worms will do that to a fella...)

Just this: John and Paul hustled "I Wanna Be Your Man" to the Stones, which they turned into their first U.S. charted single. It was Ringo on lead vocals. Talk about Mick and Keef being punked...

Pete was going to include me in a Signal chat today about the Iranian school attack. We'd hoped to Zoom in 175 school girls, but, apparently, they were otherwise occupied...

Eagerly awaiting Bobby's next off-the-rotator-cuff comments...

Any guesses on how Kari Lake spends her time these days?

Since the Pentagon is all hopped up and barring photographers who take "unflattering" pictures of Pete, I asked my favorite AI chatbot what would constitute a "flattering" image of this fella. The answer was immediate: "There isn't one."

Never been fired from a job, which, today, is more than Kristi can say...

How many Iranian school girls murdered in a single strike? The count keeps going up. All for Don's war of choice. You know, the guy who, in the same House chambers where his minions tried to stop Biden's certification, tells Democrats they are "crazy."

The country's next top medical doc urges us not to "believe in doctors." OK here's what else Casey Means: Need a new roof? Don't believe in construction workers A new bridge? Don't believe in structural engineers New wiring? Don't believe in electricians Also, more raw milk, please...more raw milk!!

Our Paris bureau, meanwhile, reports that Charles Kushner is doing a bang-up job...

Bari Weiss sounds like one of the law firms that immediately caved to Trump's extortion demands...

I "adulted" really well today. Supported both adult children in meaningful ways and still am looking forward to some needed guitar practice this evening. Day by day, people, day by day...

Not a single voice on the right (or left, for that matter) demanding, "Why employ military strikes against Iran? Why now? Can you explain your pathetic lack of thinking? Did Jeffrey leave some evidence there??

Not saying Kid Rock's show was lip synced, but his choice of Ashlee Simpson as a back-up singer seemed awfully odd...

I am so nostalgic about the fuel sources humans relied upon in the mid-nineteenth century. Can't we please agree upon anything?

Why am I drawn to this? In the wake of Rob Reiner's murder, actor James Woods expressed the thought that, had it not been for Rob's having cast him in "Mississippi Burning," his career might have been at an end. Yet, in the film, Woods' character murders Medgar Evers. And Jimmy is still despicable.

Would love to know the number of new ICE hires who received J6 pardons. It's certainly not zero...

Read today that newly hired sheriff's deputies need from 12 to 18 months training before they can patrol alone. ICE hires are right at 42 days.

Remember that time Stephen Miller laughed? Yeah, I don't either...

Don wants to "move on" from the (newly released) Epstein files. The 2020 election results? You know, from six years ago? Not quite so much...

At least Nero could play an instrument...

Personally, I'm very heartened to hear our many-times-decorated Commander in Chief go on and on about how those 457 dead NATO soldiers hung back so far in Afghanistan. Nothing if not inspiring...

Not that anyone is counting, but I have personally stopped at least NINE wars this week alone. And probably many, many more.

Whatever else one may say about his orange skin, it is, it seems, extremely thin...

Don has promised to protect Iranian protesters. If any of the protests of this magnitude were happening in the U.S., he'd long ago have tried to invoke the Insurrection Act.

So odd that Pete Hegseth added me to a Signal chat for the Venezuela operation. Regardless, my neighbors and I were fabulously entertained...

New BBC doc says Hitler had a genetic abnormality that resulted in both an undescended left testicle and a "micro-penis." So...he wasn't the big dick the world believed him to be?

So sad to hear about Tatiana Schlossberg's passing. What a smart, capable, talented, loving daughter, wife and parent. Truly, the best this country had to offer.

Susie, apparently, doesn't have the Wiles we thought she did...

Probably time for the DOJ to try to indict a ham sandwich...just to see if it's still got that prosecutorial magic...

Wait...I thought it was those pet-eating Haitians we were supposed to be so worried about...

Anyone see Lindsey around the office this morning? She's not at her desk. I'll call Alina to see if she's heard anything.

Bobby's flaks at the CDC continue to use the phraseology "gold standard science." Hate to remind them that we went off the gold standard decades ago...

So measles is now basically a growth stock?

Just musing here, but what would it take for Sam "We Love Insurrectionist Flags Flying Above Our Vacation Home" Alito and Clarence "Insurrection? What Insurrection?" Thomas to vote against a Trump-backed issue before the court?

I am not holding a rally at the Ellipse. Period. Period. Period.

Not a good night for Don. Is someone going to wake him up and tell him?