Really, Nikki? You’re going to vote for Trump? Okay, I can understand why a person like you could never vote for a Democrat. But vote for a man you thought so little of you persisted in running against him when everyone else had folded? Why not just stay home on Election Day and fade away? You must know that, like Pence, there’s no place for you at the Trump table.

#SCOTUS Reforming the Supreme Court, in light of its recent scandals and obvious political partisanship is much needed before it loses all credibility. I recommend a thorough discussion of how it could be done - without violating the Constitution: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/supreme-court-term-limits

Now that college classes are ending for the summer, where will the protestors go next? The’ll have to wait three months for the Democratic National Convention.

Nope, it’s back! Aargh!

I have no idea what I did except view the settings on my iPad, but now my columns are back to normal. Whew!

Please help this computer-challenged user. My screen on this site now is widened, so I have to scroll sideways to read a post. How do I condense the posts to read like they used to?

Trump today claimed his trial was happening too fast. He didn’t say, “at warp speed,” so he missed that opportunity. But he’s trying to have it both ways. His lawyers are using the delay tactic of not stipulating to anything the prosecution presents, no matter how mundane, forcing all these boring witnesses to testify that, yes, this is the document, this is the tape, etc. It’s putting their client to sleep!

The defense in the hush money trial is emphasizing how sleazy the prosecution witnesses are. Well, duh. The whole case is sleazy, and reflects on sleazy Trump, the man behind it all. Money WAS paid to sleazy operatives to keep the sleazy stories under the rug in order not to lose votes in the election. Was Davidson running for President? Was Cohen? Was Pecker? No.

One of my pet peeves: “I graduated college in 1987.” This usage of the verb is becoming more and more prevalent. But it’s wrong. It’s supposed to be, “I graduated FROM college in 1987.” The preposition is needed for the verb; otherwise, the verb makes no sense: You graduated college into what or compared to what?

So what do college basketball coaches say now when they recruit a high school player? “Hey, if you don’t like it after the first (or second, or third) year, you can always transfer to another school?”

There are multiple reasons for players entering the transfer portal: Not enough playing time, the coach left, better NIL prospects elsewhere, etc. The problem is, we have made it too easy to jump ship. And the result is an army of journeymen with no loyalty to a team. And thus, no loyal fan base.

Peter Navarro got a SECOND! emergency hearing at the Supreme Court regarding his incarceration during his appeal. Okay, it was rejected - again - but it speaks volumes about our two-tiered justice system. If you’re rich and connected, you go to the front of the line.

Yup, you nailed it.

Jim Jordan going after Coca-Cola is sure to help Republicans in Georgia. Not!

Or how about this: “Nobody is entitled to absolute immunity unless they’re Republican government officials or relatives of same.”

Tomorrow, on the last day of hearing oral arguments for the year, the Supreme Court will entertain Trump’s absolute immunity claim. SCOTUS has already demonstrated its affinity for Trump by one, taking the case to begin with; two, for putting a stay on the appeals court decision that no such immunity exists; and three, putting off the hearing until the last possible day in the session. But it took them less than a month to decide in favor of Trump in the Colorado ballot case. Need I say more?

Mind boggling! Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in 1977, are 15 and 12 billion miles, respectively, from Earth. It takes about two days to send them a signal and receive one back. It would take another 400 years for the spacecraft to travel the distance light does in one year. And another 1200 years to reach the distance of the next nearest star besides our sun. And another 21,000 years to reach the distance of the nearest galaxy outside of the Milky Way.

My prediction, and it’s not because I”m a hand-wringing lib pessimist, is that Trump will at least get a hung jury if not an acquittal in the hush money trial. Too much reasonable doubt out there, IMHO. Falsifying business records, yes, that’s a fact. But it’s a misdemeanor. Extending that to an election-interference felony seems a bridge too far. That’s likely why the previous prosecutor didn’t pursue it. I hope I’m wrong, because I think he’s guilty. Easy for me to say. I’m not on the jury.

#collegebasketball I made a prediction a number of years ago that colleges would hire players for their teams - employees who would have nothing to do with being student-athletes. With NIL and the transfer portal, and players heading to the NBA not having to even attend class after the first semester, this prediction has almost come to pass. Colleges are fast becoming like pro teams that have a city in front of their nickname for bragging rights, but no sense of belonging to the city or region.