News Headline: “Trump is colluding with Russia right in front of our eyes.”.
Not sure how this will play with his base.
Which tends not to be aware of what is in front of its eyes.

The faculty at Bath University in Somerset, England, has been urged to stop using the phrase “as you know” because it might make students who don’t know feel inadequate.

President Trump this afternoon on his NATO visit:
“Well, if asking people to pay up money that they are supposed to is insulting, maybe I did. But I can tell you when I left, everybody was thrilled.”
Were they ever.

News Headline: “Did Russia hack the 2016 vote tally?”
News Headline: “Voting machine vendor changes story, admits it put remote access software on machines for years.”
Asked and answered.
Well. Not quite.
But almost. . . almost. . . .

News Headline: “President Trump walks in front of Queen Elizabeth.”
Because of course he did.
But at least he didn’t grab–
Never mind.
And does this mean it’s time for QT’s annual reminder that a man should never kiss a woman’s hand, but only the air just above her hand?
Evidently.

11:55 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, on the 3900 block of Creekmont Drive in Houston.

Sixteen days remain until the 988th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Stiklestad in Norway.
If you can’t make it to the reenactment, you can at least sing the battle song:

It is our soil on which you step,
You better stay away from us,
Or else you will regret. . . .

Or is that Donald Trump’s latest immigration tweet?

News Headline: “Peter Strzok: I didn’t really mean Trump supporters were ‘ignorant hillbillies.’ ”
Of course not.
There are the ignorant city-dwellers, too. And the ignorant suburbanites. . . .
Talk about diversity.

Shortly after 10 p.m. Monday, July 9, along Parklands Avenue in Bell Block,
New Zealand.
This is the 11th dog day of summer.
There are 29 dog days to go.