(Baby Boomer tip: it means “shaking my head”)

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The news this past week was weird, even by American standards. As if America still had any.

Oh, there was the usual off-track wagering over whether or not this would be the week Hillary finally went to prison. There was the normal partisan finger-pointing in Congress during their normal two-day work week. And there was the expected quotidian cursing at President Trump by the professional hand-wringers in the media. In fact, the biggest...