Pun Salad

Not that it matters, but when I sit to a well-balanced meal, I’ve been known to look down and say “Ah. My plate dot gov.”

Today's Eye Candy is … uh … something you can buy at Amazon. But caveat emptor:

Only owned these for a few months and the white plastic plates are turning yellow from the dishwasher. The small cereal bowls, while they haven't yellowed, have Dairy decals on the bottom of the inside that are wrinkling up from washing and now trap food particles and nasty dishwasher water rendering them unsafe to use. Both plates and bowls state they are dishwasher safe, but they are not. Total waste of my hard earned money.

And another critic laments that she (I'm assuming the pronoun here) "Would like the plate to keep each food item in its own area."

Mom, the creamed corn is touching the grapefruit wedges!

Briefly noted:

• Dan McLaughlin notes the inevitable: The Open Liberal Rooting for Trump Has Begun.

  Donald Trump has been very, very good for liberal and progressive pundits. He’s great copy, giving them an endless array of targets that will incense their readers, viewers, and listeners. He gives them a wholly unearned sense of moral superiority that allows them to posture as defenders of democracy, the rule of law, acceptance of election outcomes, and even seriousness in foreign policy — all values notably at odds with their own agenda and conduct and that of the Democratic Party. “Whatabout Trump” is an all-purpose Get Out of Jail Free card in any argument. Fear of Trump has given them a license not only to excuse and ignore bad behavior on their own side, but also to consolidate the power of illiberal progressivism over all manner of institutions by paining anyone right of center as a dangerous, potentially insurrectionary Other. And, of course, he has given Democrats a string of electoral victories since 2017 and allowed them, most recently this fall, to escape an overdue reckoning from voters for an unpopular president, a failed agenda, and a conspicuously insane approach to the culture.

  I appreciate that Dan didn't go full Star Wars on that headline: <voice imitation="yoda">Begun, the open liberal rooting for Trump has!</voice>

• On a more serious note: I recommended a Dispatch article by David French a couple days ago, but only a few paragraphs were available to non-subscribers. It's been republished at Persuasion: The "Twitter Files" Show It’s Time to Reimagine Free Speech Online. So now you can Read The Whole Thing, and you should.