Next they'll be writing the editorials

     The classic illustration of the Yiddish word chutzpah is the youth who murders his parents and then begs the court for mercy because he is an orphan.
     But now that chestnut has strong competition, with the Trump administration's director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, arguing in Tuesday's Washington Post that scrapping mRNA vaccine development is not calamitous groveling before our anti-science ruler, but "a necessary pivot in how we steward public health innovations in vaccines."
      Why? Because despite showing "promise," the mRNA platform "has failed a crucial test: earning public trust."

     And exactly why, we may ask — God knows Bhattacharya never will —has trust in such an established lifesaving technology been reduced to rubble? Oh right, anti-medicine Trump and his wack job secretary of health and vaccine removal, RFK Jr.
      Give Bhattacharya credit. He said it with a straight face. That must be hard. 

     Also in Tuesday's Post, former Fox New host and current U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, our old friend, Judge Box o' Wine, Jeanine Pirro, writing about "The Fight to Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful," which seems to involve the lock-'em-up tough guy swagger that represents the entirety of the Trump administration's approach to crime.

    Well, that and calling out the National Guard.

     And masked policemen plucking people from the street and dispatching them to foreign hellholes without any sort of due process of law.

     It's scary to see those two lapdogs being given such prime real estate in what was once a legitimate newspaper, and now clearly is slinking toward being some kind of official government house organ, like Pravda. It would be funny if it were not so, you know, terrifying and tragic.