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Tuesday February 14, 2017
Lancelot Links Goes Shopping at Nordstrom
- Trump aide (& abet) Kellyanne Conway told Fox & Friends viewers to buy Ivanka Trump's clothing line, apparently breaking federal law. (“An employee shall not use his public office for his own private gain, for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise,”) Why nothing, most likely, will happen to her.
- Unless it's California's AG Xavier Becerra. Fingers crossed. What isn't in doubt, according to the Post, is that “the president and his aides are inviting corruption.”
- Jason Chaffetz went to a town hall of his constituents, and all he got was some major flak. Which he totally deserved. Because he's a major douche who's helping bring down the country.
- Bye-bye National Security Adviser Mike Flynn after only 24 days. A new record.
- Dueling protests at a Planned Parenthood in St. Paul, Minn., drew an estimated 6,000 people total: 500 pro-lifers and 5,500 pink-clad pro-choicers.
- How does SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch seem to you? Scott Turow, the best-selling novelist as well as a highly regarded practicing attorney in Illinois, suggests he's to the right of Antonin Scalia. Also, how the Dems can block his nomination.
- For those nostalic for a POTUS with class, Obama's official photog, Pete Souza is posting great shots on Instagram.
- Speaking of: The Atlantic lays out the winners of the 2017 World Press Photo Contest. Not to get all click-baity, but I particularly liked No. 7 from Jonathan Bachman: the upright calm of the woman in the dress offering herself up for arrest; the seeming panic of the armor-clad officers confronting her. It's otherworldly but it's our world.
- Great piece by Lili Anolik of Vanity Fair on Pauline Kael in LaLa Land.
- Nathaniel Rogers on the BAFTA winners.
- Joe Posnanski is knocking down judgmental baseball stats, starting with the pitcher's win.
- Via my cousin Kristin, 101 websites that pay writers.
- From CJR, how The Washington Post is turning newspapers around.
- What the fuck just happened? Day 26.
Posted at 10:10 AM on Tuesday February 14, 2017 in category Lancelot Links