CNN essay by Peter Bergen, Nov. 19th: "Trump's preposterous bin Laden comments"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/19/opinions/trumps-preposterous-bin-laden-comments-bergen/index.html

Max Boot essay: "Donald Trump really is a genius — when it comes to second-guessing other people’s decisions"

From Max Boot's Nov. 19th essay, below, in The Washington Post:

"So convinced is President Second Guesser of his own superior virtue and perspicacity that he does not hesitate to cruelly mock those who have displayed actual heroism in real life. In 2015, he attacked John McCain for being captured by the North Vietnamese — an implicit second-guessing of the split-second decisions McCain made as a Navy pilot flying over some of the most heavily defended airspace in the world. A few months later Trump attacked the generals who had failed to defeat ISIS and suggested that he would do so with torture and indiscriminate bombing.

"And on Sunday, he attacked retired Adm. William H. McRaven, the Navy SEAL who supervised the raid that killed bin Laden and who now has the temerity to criticize Trump’s attacks on the media. “Wouldn’t it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldn’t it have been nice?” the president said. Trump showed no awareness that it’s not the job of Navy SEALs to find wanted fugitives. That’s the responsibility of the intelligence community — and as soon as the spies had found bin Laden, McRaven’s men were spinning up for the mission."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/11/19/donald-trump-really-is-a-genius-when-it-comes-to-second-guessing-other-peoples-decisions

Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick

Making note--a little belatedly--of the October 2nd death of Geoff Emerick, the well-known recording engineer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/obituaries/geoff-emerick-72-dies-recorded-the-beatles-in-their-prime.html

President Trump's Tuesday attack on Christine Blasey Ford

Am just sickened by President Trump's mocking attack against Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, during his campaign rally in Missisippi on Tuesday.

"The Many Faces of Brett Kavanaugh"

A very good column by Frank Bruni, in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/opinion/the-many-faces-of-brett-kavanaugh.html

From CNN.com: #WhyIDidntReport

On Friday, President Trump said this, on Twitter: "I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!"

The piece, below--also from Friday--is from CNN's website.  It concerns the many posts which have been appearing on Twitter--with the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport--written by victims of sexual assault. 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/health/why-i-didnt-report-tweets-trnd/index.html

A good editorial, from The New York Times

"G.O.P. Leaders Can’t Even Fake Respect for Christine Blasey Ford"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/republicans-christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh.html