Friday morning roundup

What if an ally elects a war criminal for president?

Everyone read into the picks for Secretary of Energy and administrator of EPA in terms of prioritizing climate change, but don't forget Agriculture.

Let's say for a minute this guy is not full of $hit. Say he's just the embodiment of a mismatch between academic brilliance and common sense. If he has "astonishingly no ego," what is it that makes him think he's appropriate for women at least three decades younger than he is? What the f*:

Yet in many of my conversations with him, he seemed to cling to the idea of his own exceptionalism. During our first meeting, when I asked him what attracted him to Milani, he said, “Not to offend present company,” referring to me and the representative from the penitentiary service, “but, to start with, she’s in the top 1 percentile of how women look.” And in an e-mail to Milani — or, rather, the fake Milani — Frampton wrote, “As these days tick by, and I think about it a lot, the more I realize that we are the perfect couple in all respects.”

Right. Top 1 percentile. You talk about dark energy, she has giant mammary glands. Maybe rethink the characteristics you value in women? Look, I get it: you have (had) colleagues you can talk to about particle behavior; that is not what you are looking for in a date. [I get it because my mother, some friends, and a cabal of relationship coaches constantly "remind" me and us, respectively, that men are not attracted to women for their brains.] But it's not like you're even valuing this hoax of a person for her character; you're elevating "her"--declaring her deserving of your exceptional intelligence--by virtue of her body. Just sayin'.