Greetings! Monday laugh:  In a weekend tweet, Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci, who only lasted 10 days in the Trump White House, thanked JD Vance “for knocking me out of the position of the worst Donald Trump hire.  I didn’t think it would happen, but here we are and I’m grateful”…In a scathing editorial, the reliably right-leaning Wall Street Journal threw shade on Vance’s rocky first weeks as The Donald’s No. 2: “An old political saw is that the best VP choice is one who gets applause upon announcement and then is never heard from again. You can tell that doesn’t apply to Mr. Vance since Mr. Trump is being asked if he still believes he made the right choice. He says he does, but the Trump campaign can’t be happy about having to defend Mr. Vance instead of focusing on Kamala Harris’s many extreme views”…Melania Trump’s memoir Melania drops on September 17.   I’ve made a promise to myself not to  snark about the ex-First Lady’s foray into the world of letters.  Now if there was an iota of a chance that the Sphinx-like former First Lady was going to pull back the covers on her bizarre relationship with the ex-POTUS, I might be eager to read it. Instead, I’ll have to settle for 2020's Melania and Me, by ex-senior advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff…Ninety-nine days until the election. Nail-biting time….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Since Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, right wing media has engaged in a full-frontal assault on the Veep’s character and candidacy. Just one example from today:  FrontPage charges that Harris’s “anti-Israel advisors brought on the October 7 attacks''…Dept. Of Pretzel Logic:  According to a statement released by The Donald’s campaign, he won’t debate Harris for the following reason: “There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party - namely Barack Hussein Obama - that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud who cannot beat President Trump, and they are still holding out for someone ‘better’”…Wall Street Journal columnist and ex- George H.W. Bush speechwriter Peggy Noonan believes Kamala Harris can beat Donald Trump. In today’s op-ed, Noonan implores the Trump campaign to cease showing images of the ex-POTUS  with blood dripping from his ear and face.  “Stop obsessing on the assassination attempt,” she writes. “It excites the unstable. I can do that too. The sick and the evil don’t need more inspirations”…Add one more clown to the circus:  If there’s a Trump-Harris debate ex-Major League Baseball star Jose Conseco has offered to moderate it…Happy birthday Mick Jagger, The age-defying Rolling Stones frontman turns 81 today, the same age as a certain White House denizen..  Hope that gives Joe Biden some  satisfaction…Weekend Watch:  Anything interesting happening in Paris?  In case the Olympics aren’t your cup of Beaujolais,  and you’re a fan of the great American summer pastime, check out the four-part HBO documentary Charlie Hustle & the Matter of Pete Rose.  It’s a fascinating character study of an extremely talented, yet fatally flawed athlete …If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.  Howard