Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

This afternoon, at a Shell station in Fort Worth, Texas, I paid $1.999 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. With my Kroger card, it came to $1.899. What're y'all payin' in your neck o' the woods?

Donald Trump is speaking in Connecticut. Click here for the live stream.

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As I've been saying for months, Donald Trump is five steps ahead of everyone else, including the dolts at CNN who think they're smart. Do they not see that Trump is playing them like a musical instrument? Example: Trump says that Barack Obama founded ISIS. His objective in saying this is obviously to get people talking about the role Obama played in the rise of ISIS. This helps Trump and hurts Hillary Clinton, because both Obama and Clinton are responsible for the rise of ISIS. CNN, meanwhile, thinks Trump is speaking literally (instead of strategically and provocatively) and devotes hour after hour to (1) wondering how he can believe what he says and (2) expressing shock, outrage, and horror at what he says (or what they think he means).

I've stopped watching CNN. I have a low tolerance for stupidity. I've also stopped reading the National Review and the Weekly Standard, the editors and writers of which are working overtime to get Hillary Clinton elected (which means the end of almost everything they value, from freedom of expression to the right to own firearms to fetal life to limited government). Here is Scott Adams's take on Trump's latest act of brilliance.

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The latest noises coming out of the political arena remind me of Plato’s cave allegory.

I see the masses in the cave with their heads in bonds; they can see the cave’s entrance where true light shines, but none of them opts for that route.

The hate rhetoric is the fire behind them that shines on objects projecting only shadows on the wall, black and white caricatures of a complex reality.

Reality and truth escape that group so much that even cognitive dissonance is no longer a nuisance considering their alleged core religious values and even ideas of justice have no significance anymore as they are consumed by their own ignorance, intolerance and hate.

What we are witnessing today is beyond fanaticism, it’s a collective insanity of a segment of the population who feel they are losing grip on something that’s legitimately theirs and theirs only. They don’t realize they are making choices against their own interests.

HARRY ANGUS,

PEMBROKE PINES

Note from KBJ: Methinks Harry Angus has been smoking too much weed.

Laughter & Lust (1991). 4:03 to 5:28. Oh. My. God. Transportation to heaven.

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