Trump announces that he is running for president again. Pat Paulsen died too soon. He would have found comedy gold in this announcement.

🎶He's making a list, he's checking it twice,
To see who's bad, who's good, and who's nice.
Elon Musk is such a 🤡.🎶

Democracy was on the ballot. And attempts to end it were met with universal scorn, by Tim Miller https://open.substack.com/pub/thetriad/p/democracy-was-on-the-ballot-and-attempts

Facebook reminds fact-checkers Trump is off limits if he says he’s running again for president https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/facebook-fact-check-donald-trump

Elon Musk Fires Twitter Employees Who Criticized Him https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/technology/elon-musk-twitter-fired-criticism.html

Poland calls NATO meeting after Russian-made missile kills two https://thehill.com/policy/international/3737146-poland-calls-nato-meeting-after-russian-made-missile-kills-two/

McConnell faces leadership challenge from Rick Scott as conservatives steam https://politi.co/3UOLgnw

Democrats are openly rooting for another Trump presidential bid https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/democrats-trump-2024-presidential-bid

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@Jax_Wild_4_Life Thanks for the earworm.

I was once asked to write an article featuring Lee's work, but when I started to do some research and fact-checking I saw so many red flags I begged off the assignment. Anything he says should be handled with great care.

Dr. Henry Lee Sued by Two Men Exonerated of Murder https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/two-men-exonerated-of-bloody-1989-murder-accuse-famous-forensic-scientist-henry-lee-of-fabricating-evidence-that-put-them-away-for-decades/

(NB, I often make fun of the way I look, because if I don't, who will? ... Wait ... What?)

@ToolPackinMama I agree completely. IMHO opinion, the most beautiful woman in the 20th century was Amelia Earhart, though many people nowadays would think her plain. I had a teacher who knew Eleanor Roosevelt when he was young, and he swore that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever met.

(I mean, I saw a woman the other day whose face muscles couldn't move at all because she's addicted to botox. And then there are those with face tattoos and bones in their noses. Gentle teasing, yes, if I knew them well. Discrimination or being deliberately hurtful? No.)

(I think that people who do things deliberately to make themselves ugly--whether they think what they did is ugly or not--are fair game to an extent, but only in the sense of some gentle fun-poking. Nothing vindictive. This includes people who are addicted to plastic surgery.)

Barring plastic surgery, people generally have only a very limited ability to change the face God gave them. Weight, physical conditioning, clothing, and the way people keep and present themselves is another issue, although some people don't even have much control over that.

Come to think of it, for the most part it really isn't right to denigrate someone's looks at all, no matter who they are, unless they're a degenerate, half-wit slob who had the nerve to say that one of the most beautiful women on the planet was "no longer a ten."