And now for something completely different.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38735358
Man robs Kansas bank to ‘escape wife’Funny, but politics?
Sorry, things were looking dire, and just like a news program, I went for something lighthearted to distract us from it.
Here’s something that might be more fitting:
2017 has been “doubleplusgood” for sales of George Orwell’s “1984.”
The novel’s newfound popularity comes several days after White House press secretary Sean Spicer argued defiantly that Trump’s swearing-in Friday drew the largest-ever audience for an inauguration “period,” despite obvious photo and statistical evidence to the contrary.
Senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway later defended that argument by saying Spicer’s false claims were actually "alternative facts."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/24/us/george-orwell-1984-bestseller-trump-trnd/index.html
Given it’s probably one of the most influential novels of my life, I’m glad more people are reading it. I’m not so sure I’m glad more people are reading it because it’s become nonfiction.