Although friends of mine are aghast at the thought, I would welcome Trump running for president again. Of course, a third-term election would violate the Constitution, but those friends reason that Trump has not been deterred by legal niceties before. They fear he would have four more years in office. I, on the other hand, am convinced that if he ran, he would be resoundingly defeated, perhaps profoundly changing the political landscape. He won in 2016 against a flawed candidate. I don’t mean that Clinton was not qualified to be president. She was. But she had been attacked by the right wing for decades convincing many, including friends of mine, not to vote for her. Even so, she won three million more votes than Trump. However, Trump narrowly carried enough swing states, not winning majorities but only pluralities in them. Many who found themselves unwilling to vote for either Trump or Clinton voted instead for third party candidates giving Trump narrow wins in crucial states and the electoral college victory. In 2020, the country was well informed of Trump’s shortcomings, and he was running then against a respectable seeming candidate, Biden. Trump lost bigly, by eight million popular votes. In 2024, with Trump’s presidential performance forgotten by many, he ran again against a highly flawed candidate from a discombobulated party. He did win, of course, but he did not get the majority of the popular vote, and only 1.5 percentage points more than Harris got. A win, yes, but hardly a convincing blowout. If Trump ran again in 2028, with his presidential performance immediately in the public’s face and hopefully not running against a candidate with the flaws of Clinton and Harris, he would be blown out worse than in 2020. Bring him on.

I just learned that North Korea has a beach resort. Not a vacation I want to take.

We now have, according to Trump, a Lake America. But what about those birds, marvelous in flight but disgusting defecators on the ground, who use our airspace, grasslands, and marshes on their way to and from our northern neighbor. Should we continue to call them Canadian geese? And what about the Canadian River, totally within the borders of the United States?

A new measure: He is rich, yes, but not rich enough to be in Trump’s cabinet.

It was a dreary, rainy Saturday, and that is my excuse for watching college football. I did not care about the results, and that is no doubt why I paid attention to something that I would not otherwise–really, I swear vociferously (but not necessarily convincingly)–have noticed: that is that the present generation of women college cheerleaders are overwhelmingly small-breasted. Is this a new form of discrimination that woke students should be concerned about?

“American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts.” Hedy Lamar.