My son raised a really great idea he'd seen on the Internet. I one-upped him. He said I have to post this: imagine on January 18, Barack Obama resigns, passing the Presidency to z hour Biden as #45. (All the history books have to changed, as well as the inaugural process...) THEN, on the 19th, after issuing a series of new executive ordersummary, Biden resigns, padding the baton to... Paul Ryan. On Inauguration Day, PAUL RYAN is forced to relinquish the presidency to Donald Trump. Wouldn't that be rich?? Well worth two extra numbers... Biden 45, Ryan 46, Trump 47.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich