What economic boom? Show me!

Mueller's worthless investigation is costing us millions, masking gargantuan increases for DOJ

Mueller Runs Up $16 Million Tab in Trump-Russia Investigation

"Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election has cost more than $16 million during its first year, according to the Justice Department."

This is small beer compared with what's really going on.

Trump's budget estimate for the entire Dept. of Justice for fiscal 2017 came to just $18 billion, but has swelled to $30 billion for both fiscal years 2018 and 2019, one of the biggest increases for any department. 67%!

What the hell are they spending the money on? 

Black people calling black people monkeys

Here.

Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end . . .

Small children love him, why not you?

Here.

Verbal rapist Keith Olbermann is consistent with Disney's values but Roseanne isn't

One chimp-out for thee but none for me

Italian bond yields at auction yesterday were way up but still well below 2011 "crisis" levels

The cost of the war in Afghanistan since 2001 is $1.1 trillion, but The Wall would be a waste of money

Roseanne should have said she was hacked, you know, like Joy Reid

Valerie Jarrett inherited her looks from her dad

Valerie Jarrett

James E. Bowman

ABC should put Roseanne on The View next

She could reprise Ted Danson and see how Whoopi likes it now.

Laugh of the Day: Hollywood Reporter closes Disqus comments on Roseanne tweet story without showing even one

"This discussion has been closed".

What discussion?! (in my best Roseanne voice)

Cowards. You know everyone's laughing at Roseanne. Well, everyone with a sense of humor anyway.

Story here.

With every new story about JFK we hate him all the more, and his enablers and worshippers

From the story here:

“If the world had any idea how much of his time was focused not on NATO or Algeria or Vietnam, but on a hot date from Madame Claude, the perception of history would have been dubious, to say the least,” Stadiem writes.

Italy, the hysteria du jour

"Dow is set to drop 200 points at the open as worries about Italy roil world markets"

The Italian bond market, from the perspective of yields over the last ten years, is just shrugging. Yield on the short end is still negative:

6-month

1-year

10-year

30-year

Laugh of the Day: Chinese communism with curvy butt characteristics

South China Morning Post, here.

We don't want 'em either

Story here.

The story behind "I Drive Your Truck"

Here.

Everyday is Memorial Day for Stephen Newman, 67

Editorial: 'Every day is Memorial Day': A lifetime of grief for a soldier's son

This guy's kidding about Amazon, right?

From the story here at CNBC:

Most people who cook and who don't leave the house often can probably get by pretty well using only Amazon services. You get can clothes, food and entertainment all from a single company, which is pretty wild. Who else offers that?

This guy obviously never heard of Meijer, a big box store where you can get your eyeglasses, prescriptions, haircut, banking, groceries, books, entertainment, electronics, hardware, automotive, pet supplies, flowers and on and on. And they deliver. There are others, and were.

Like Prange's.

Prange's was a department store in my hometown back in the 1960s. It had everything, from toys, sporting goods and groceries to shoes, clothing and furniture, and it delivered. My mom used it all the time. And for fun we went there, on the bus. It had a lunch counter where you could sit down and eat, and an express counter for fast food like foot long hot dogs, and right across from that a wonderful bakery, too.

What goes around comes around.