A British business consultant proposed banning handshakes as a possible next step in avoiding sex harassment claims.

News Headline: “Undercover cops posing as drug dealers arrest undercover cops posing as drug dealers.”
. . . it was announced by a police spokesman, very quietly.

News Headline: “Saudi Arabia beheads a pro-democracy protester set to attend college in U.S.”
Mutjaba al-Sweikat was one of 37 executed that day.
The United States and Donald Trump were urged to intervene.
It was a matter of human rights–and human decency.
Ha.

News Headline: “What Donald Trump’s erratic 24 hours on Twitter tell us.”
Nothing really new.
But we are reminded:
Lions roar.
Trump tweets.

A man wore a bag over his head when he robbed an Australian service station, but removed the bag before he left the store so he could put the stolen cash in it,  police said.

News Headline: “Trump claims he’s most ‘transparent’ president in U.S. history.”
In related news, the latest polling shows that 37 percent of American voters still don’t see through him.

News Item: “. . . Church members on Sunday tackled a woman, carrying a handgun and a baby, who threatened to blow up the church during. . . .”
B.T, a New York City reader, writes:
“And why the baby wanted to blow up the church, we may never know.”
And can it be time for QT’s annual reminder that the owner of a restaurant isn’t a restauranteur, but a restaurateur?
Evidently.

Eighteen days remain until the 2019 Mushroom Festival Pastie Sale and Mud Bog in Mesick, Mich.

News Headline: “Criminal Trump on the loose.”
Could we please be more careful with our word choices?
Donald Trump isn’t precisely “on the loose.”

News Headline: “French ambassador on Donald Trump: ‘a big mouth’ who ‘reads basically nothing.’ ”
And he was being diplomatic.