The fretting about the order of succession is overblown, they weren't all there. But that he was the highest-ranking not present is a good reminder that it is a really, truly, insanely bad idea that the 3rd in line is a ceremonial job held by the majority's longest-serving senator, currently age 92.

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Tidied up the garden. Cut down loads of ivy and moved Buddha from next to the drainpipe to his own zen grotto. He looks happier.

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If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

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A gulf is growing between the phones on sale in the US and those available in the rest of the world. US phone buyers are missing out. Read more from @dompreston.com:

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Anyone suggesting we should stop accurately pointing out factual ways that the president is wrecking this country on a daily basis, or expressing an opinion about that, because of something a random nut does is espousing a profoundly un-American concept that I completely reject.

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