It's been a week, hasn't it?  Well, we can hope that the election is over, that Donald Trump is not permitted to run a coup by his GOP enablers, and that the United States will for now continue to exist as a constitutional republic.  (But if you needed more evidence that the GOP is deeply sick right now, the past week would provide it.)

But that's not what I'm looking at right now.  Right now I'm looking at...

It's been a week, hasn't it?  Well, we can hope that the election is over, that Donald Trump is not permitted to run a coup by his GOP enablers, and that the United States will for now continue to exist as a constitutional republic.  (But if you needed more evidence that the GOP is deeply sick right now, the past week would provide it.)

But that's not what I'm looking at right now.  Right now I'm looking at...

It's been a week, hasn't it?  Well, we can hope that the election is over, that Donald Trump is not permitted to run a coup by his GOP enablers, and that the United States will for now continue to exist as a constitutional republic.  (But if you needed more evidence that the GOP is deeply sick right now, the past week would provide it.)

But that's not what I'm looking at right now.  Right now I'm looking at...

Interesting story on local VA politics.  Not totally off the wall. 

What this piece fails to talk about--and what it should talk about--is the...

Interesting story on local VA politics.  Not totally off the wall. 

What this piece fails to talk about--and what it should talk about--is the...

Interesting story on local VA politics.  Not totally off the wall. 

What this piece fails to talk about--and what it should talk about--is the...

A ton of us have been having this conversation, this piece by Tom Nichols captures some of it in a really troubling way:

Nearly half of the voters have seen Trump in all of his splendor—his infantile tirades, his disastrous and lethal policies, his contempt for democracy in all its forms—and they decided that they...

A ton of us have been having this conversation, this piece by Tom Nichols captures some of it in a really troubling way:

Nearly half of the voters have seen Trump in all of his splendor—his infantile tirades, his disastrous and lethal policies, his contempt for democracy in all its forms—and they decided that they...

A ton of us have been having this conversation, this piece by Tom Nichols captures some of it in a really troubling way:

Nearly half of the voters have seen Trump in all of his splendor—his infantile tirades, his disastrous and lethal policies, his contempt for democracy in all its forms—and they decided that they...

Hey all, just some distracting links at the top, and a couple political links at the bottom.  No big brain ideas.  

It's an important night.  A lot is at stake tomorrow, and in coming days.  I pray that we are shown mercy.  These are scary times.  But, as ever, we are the times.  All we can do is respond as best we can.

For now, some links:

I think...