I'm feeling more optimistic, today. It's been 48 hours and we aren't engaged in an international nuclear conflagration! The press excoriated Spicer and Conway for flat out lying. NYT: "False Claims" NBC: "Falsehoods" and CNN even used the word "Lie"; so did the Washington Post: "Whether you like Trump or not, it's demonstrably true that he says things that are easily proved false, over and over again. The question the media has regularly confronted is not whether Trump's facts are correct but whether to say he's deliberately lying or not."

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