News Headline: “Trump administration moves to end food stamps for 700,000.”
Just good policy.
The poor are are more manageable when weak from hunger.

News Headline: “Trump calls Trudeau ‘two-faced,’ cancels press conference and leaves NATO summit early after video of world leaders making fun of him.”
Who knew not being a laughingstock was so complicated?

News Headline: “House Judiciary schedules hearings with constitutional law experts.”
So at least now we can get our legal terminology straight.
News Headline: “Hugely incriminating phone records suggest Giuliani is f—ed.”
No end to the  terminology. . . .

News Headline: “Melania’s joyless Christmas decorations are back to haunt your nightmares.”
Ho, Ho, Ho!

News Headline: “Nearly half of this year’s class of U.S. Rhodes Scholars are first-generation Americans.”
Human scum.

News Headline: “Trump fakes orgasm at rally.”
News Headline: “Trump’s behavior at the NATO meeting.”
Count our blessings.
No fake orgasms so far.

+ Bill Scott, an East Northport, N.Y., reader, regarding QT’s warning that Christmas pudding should be stirred clockwise with a wooden spoon, writes:
“South of the equator, should we stir anticlockwise?”
+ Jim Kehoe, a Sydney, Australia, reader, offers this guidance:
“I have consulted an Australian expert and fellow reader, Jude Allen, who is a lifelong resident of Sydney.  She tells me that she stirs everything in a clockwise direction, so far with no ill effect.”
So we can avoid widdershins and stay with the deasil antipodally.
Which reminds QT that the most dangerous occupation in Sweden is herding reindeer.
Ho, Ho, Ho!

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News Headline: “Are our brains getting smaller?”
News Headline: “Poll: Majority of Republicans say Trump a better president than Lincoln.”
Asked and answered.

News Headline: ‘Trump wants convicted or charged war criminals on the campaign trail with him, report says.”
Would this be a case of criminals falling in with a bad crowd?

News Headline: “Christmas parade canceled after ‘love everybody’ float sparks threats.”
Ho, Ho, Ho!