In my last post I wondered whether Donald Trump was mentally fit to be president, and how long we had to live before one of his tweets started World War III ?
So Trump's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde act yesterday was definitely NOT reassuring.
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition into the White House is going “very, very smoothly,” he said Wednesday afternoon, hours after complaining on Twitter that President Barack Obama’s “roadblocks” had made for a rough changeover of power.
For surely a man prone to such wild mood swings should not be allowed anywhere near the nuclear button.
But despite that ominous outlook, there is some good news.
I can hardly wait to row out to a dark place on the lake tomorrow night, to watch the supermoon rising.
For at a time when the darkness of fascism is descending on America, threatening to turn that country into a police state, or the Mad State of Trump.
At a time when so many of our neighbours are so stunned, so full of despair, and so angry.
I think that big old moon couldn't be a more hopeful symbol of what is about to happen.
I love the musical Les Miserables. I love the songs, and the way the characters celebrate revolution.
Even if it ends badly.
Because I believe that only a revolution can save us and the world we live in.
But Donald Trump has a version of Les Miserables called Les Deplorables...
I'm glad to see that another poll is suggesting that most Americans believe Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in their first debate.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that a majority of Americans believe Hillary Clinton won the first presidential debate on Monday.
The poll found that, out of 2,000 responders, 56 percent thought the Democratic nominee won the debate, as opposed to 26 percent who said the same about Republican Donald Trump.
But while Clinton did perform well, and did at the very least halt Trump's momentum..
She did make one very big mistake.
In just a few hours I'll be leaving Canada and heading for my family home in the Scottish highlands.
And since I won't be able to do much blogging, and because the news is so grim these days, I thought I'd leave you with a message of hope.
A message from Bernie Sanders.
It's opening night at the Democratic Convention. And what was supposed to be Hillary Clinton's sparkly coronation is turning into a bit of a nightmare.
For even as Clinton prepares to accept her party's nomination, what was supposed to be a show of unity, and a bright contrast to Donald Trump's dark and divisive rally, is threatening to become a noisy show of disunity.
With the fate of the convention, and maybe her own fate, in the hands of the man she defeated.
Well he took his time, and it couldn't have been easy.
It was probably the hardest and most painful thing he has ever done.
But Bernie Sanders has finally done what he had to do.
Well she finally did it. After years of battling to return the White House where she once lived.
After years of highs and lows, and scandals real and imagined.
Hillary Clinton is now the Democratic Party's presidential candidate.
Donald Trump may be looking and sounding crazier than ever. Calling for guns to be allowed in classrooms.
While also calling for Hillary Clinton's bodyguards to be disarmed.
But despite his deranged statements, polls suggest his support is surging.
Bernie Sanders won another Democratic primary yesterday, this time in West Virginia.
White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday — a victory that will do little to slow the former secretary of state's steady march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
But since most in the MSM have written him off, his victory got little play on the U.S. news networks.
And the dominant message from the corporate media these days seems to be this one.
It was a strange scene. Donald Trump had just won the Indiana primary, and all but sewn up the Republican nomination. But instead of crowing in his usual manner, he was unusually subdued.
No doubt trying to look "presidential." Which couldn't have been easy, only hours after suggesting that Ted Cruz's father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.
But also as Olivia Nuzzi suggests, because he was probably sobered by the implications of his victory.
Donald Trump has been on his best behaviour recently, as he tries to change his tone to try to look more presidential.
Donald Trump defended Saturday his method of striking a different tone at rallies than he does behind closed doors with party officials.
"When I'm in a room, talking, you're one way, when I'm out here talking to you people, I've got to be different, alright. I mean I can say basically the same thing," Trump told the crowd in Waterbury, Connecticut.
But that hasn't stopped him from going after the man he calls Lying Ted Cruz.
Bernie Sanders is still attracting huge crowds to his rallies.
He still has the enthusiastic support of most young progressives.
In every one of the last three months, he has managed to raise more money than Hillary Clinton. Even though donations to his campaign average only $27, compared to the thousands Clinton gets from her wealthy supporters.
But after losing the big New York primary, the establishment voices calling on him to end his campaign, are getting louder and louder.
It's the greatest mystery of the Democratic race for the White House. The haunting question that won't go away.
Why won't Hillary Clinton release the transcripts of the speeches she gave to big banking institutions like Goldman Sachs?
She says she won't do that unless other candidates like Donald Trump do the same.
And since I find that answer singularly unpersuasive, I'm forced to believe this.
In New York City last night Bernie Sanders held a giant rally in Washington Park.
And although it was one of the biggest rallies of the campaign, CNN and other TV news channels all but ignored the event, and Sanders' message.
“It is not just about electing a president,” Sanders said. “It is about creating a political revolution. It is about creating a government which works for all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors.” The crowd exploded in applause.
But it doesn't really matter because he is mobilizing the future...
And the pro-democracy movement is spreading all over the world.
For Bernie Sanders it was another day, and another victory.
Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, providing his campaign with one more jolt of momentum before the race against Hillary Clinton heads east.
And while Sanders split the small number of delegates with Hillary Clinton, so he didn't reduce her advantage in the delegate count.
His growing momentum has even the Con friendly Diane Francis wondering whether he is now unstoppable.
It's impossible to exaggerate the impact of the Panama Papers' scandal. It's impossible to predict how much it will shake up the world, or how many heads will roll.
Now the question who's is next? How far will the damage spread?
The answer could be, quite far. This is the biggest leak in history -- one that dwarfs the amount of data released by Wikileaks in 2010. Reports say that 12 current or former heads of state are mentioned.
A second question is to what extent, in an era of rising middle-class discontent, this will fuel further anger among those who see themselves as carrying a disproportionate share of the burden in supporting a system that seems to them unfair.
But one thing is for sure, it can only help Bernie Sanders' campaign.
I remember seeing a lot of signs like those during the heady days of the Occupy movement.
Back in the days when everything seemed possible, and it looked like the beginning of a revolution.
But of course it didn't happen, the movement was brutally put down, and seemed to fade away. Even as the rich grew richer, and the poor grew poorer.
But you can't kill an idea or a movement whose time has come.
And the Occupy dreamers were right, capitalism doesn't work.
I haven't the slightest doubt that when future generations look back at the 2016 race for the White House, they will easily understand that Bernie Sander's campaign was the most historically significant.
For having heralded the beginning of a second American Revolution.
But if you read or watch the way the American MSM is covering the presidential nomination campaign, you'd never know it.
For it's almost all about Donald Trump.
It's been an uphill battle for Bernie Sanders and his #feeltheburn followers. The Sander's campaign gets less media coverage than any of the others.
And it doesn't have the Super PAC money Hillary Clinton does.
But after last night it does have momentum on its side.
