Stop Being Terrible

“You stop being terrible, we’ll stop pointing it out, OK? I don’t want to talk about Donald Trump every day. None of us do, none of us who host these shows do. But he gives us no choice. If he sat in the White House all day, quietly working on things, I would almost never mention him, because it’s not interesting.” 

—Jimmy Kimmel, late-night TV host, March 2019

• Editorial Comment: And because he’s really Not. Funny.

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Fisherman’s Dream

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