Did you ever wonder how secure Trump's Twitter feed is?

I mean, Twitter is a social media company. I don't know that they ever made provisions to "harden" their service to the point it can be reliably used by the POTUS to make major announcements. That's no dig against them -- it's not their job. But -- imagine a 3:00 a.m. Trump tweet that threatens to ignite a major war. We couldn't even know for sure it's him.

So, are there people in the White House who could control Trump's tweeting?

If there are, they've clearly chosen not to and to let him display his dysfunction for all the world to see, to fritter away his authority as POTUS and CIC, and possibly to prepare a path for a 25th Amendment exit.

If there aren't, then a madman is running around unrestrained in the White House.

My pick for Time's POTY: the dirtbag politician.

Donald Trump, Roy Moore, Joe Arpaio -- naturals for the cover. There are lots more.

Why the "for all have sinned" concept is harmful.

We're seeing a response to the revelations of the behaviors of Donald Trump, Roy Moore and Harvey Weinstein that includes accusations (and sometimes confessions) of inappropriate behavior by many others, most notably Senator Al Franken. In most cases, it looks like the accusations are grounded in reality. The response from the conservative side of the aisle is tending to "See, everybody does it. It's not a big deal."

No, no, no! Everybody doesn't do it. There is no It. Saying all have sinned is corralling vicious sociopaths in with a large group of people whose actions and attitudes span the spectrum from Trump/Moore/Weinstein to thoroughly decent people caught up in misunderstandings. You might as well put the Vegas shooter in the same category of sinner as someone who was in a playground scuffle while in elementary school.

Should Senator Franken apologize? I don't know. He did. Does he regret his actions? Pretty sure he does now. Does he belong in the dustbin of history along with Trump, Moore, and Weinstein?

No ****ing way.

A question about eBay, if this is an OK place to ask.

Retired, decided to bite the bullet, downsize, and eBay a bunch of stuff. I decided to put one little item up for sale and ask my GF to buy it, just so I could be sure that I had all my ducks in a row with eBay and PayPal. No shilling or any funny stuff, just wanted to be sure that I hadn't overlooked anything so I wouldn't get a negative report right out of the starting gate with my first real customer.

When she tries to "buy it now", eBay is unresponsive. Could this be because we use the same Internet connection and the same IP and eBay is flagging us as fraudsters?

On edit: Turned out the answer was right in front of me. Looks like eBay, when it sees the IP match, sends you directly to a page that's not the usual page for items. "Buy it now" just won't work there. The good news is that there are no nastygrams in my eBay inbox, so I guess I don't have to go to eBay confession.

Thanks to all who replied.

The Don't Eat Yellow Snow Foundation.

With the approach of winter, I've decided to form a foundation that will address one of our country's major cold weather situations: health problems caused by the consumption of yellow snow. Plans are incomplete at this time, but I am soliciting the support of prominent people to warn against eating discolored frozen precipitation. The following are currently on my list:

Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
Bernie Sanders
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
Al Franken
Nancy Pelosi
Al Gore
George Soros
John Stewart
Steven Colbert
John Oliver
Barbara Streisand
Colin Kaepernick
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I am sure that no one anywhere would question the recommendations of such a worthy group were I able to gain their support. I welcome suggestions.

P.S. This is not an exclusively American effort. I am receiving expressions of interest from North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela which I cannot discuss more at this time.

How to steal a close election.

What you do going into the election is to create a sloppy, chaotic environment. That's not hard to do -- all you have to do is stop trying to be organized. In this milieu, lots and lots of mistakes will be made and they will most likely fall equally on both sides.

But then, the election is held and your side is a few votes short, so your team fans out beating the bushes for votes that may have been lost in the pandemonium of the election. Now you don't explicitly tell your people to cheat but you do give them a good ol' pep talk about just how important this win is and how happy everybody will be if they just happen to find a wad of uncounted votes that fell down behind the desk that put our guy over the top. You leave it to their imagination what it will be like if said wad of votes puts their guy over the top. You don't tell them to unfind those votes but then you don't exactly tell them not to either. After all, the adversary is a venomous spawn of Satan, so their conscience should be their guide, right?

If there's an investigation, well, the operation just needs to be updated and streamlined. It's not like anybody intentionally did anything bad, right?

Appropriate for election day: Matthew 7:19-20 (KJV)

19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

"They just don't put much value on human life over there."

I remember hearing that in my youth when news of a major loss of life in some third world country came across the TV. I suppose they're saying that about us now.

In NYC today getting ready to march.

Good luck to us all.