But not only did I find a clip of the Q&A, I also realized that the guy standing next to her, with the charming facial expressions, is Nick Merrill, her Traveling Press Secretary. I remember him from this video, where I took him to be the cute Noah's cute dad. I guess not. Cute yes, Noah's Dad no. ;)

"My charity helps people. His is used to pay off your attorney general."

And he stayed on the offensive in Durham, NC:

"I got tickled the other day when Mr. Trump called my foundation a criminal enterprise. That was pretty funny considering that the three major evaluators of foundations gave it the highest grade that they could give. And the most recent one rated it higher than the Red Cross and unlike him, we actually say who gives us money and what we spend it on and disclose our tax returns and things like that.

"And, considering, his foundation was recently fined by the government for actually paying out of the foundation. If you put money in a family foundation, you don't pay taxes on it because you're going to give it away, right? But you can't make a political contribution. He made a political contribution to the Attorney General of Florida who at the time had her office investigating Trump University -- and mysteriously, the investigation vanished."

The Orlando Sentinel reports on the growing call for a federal investigation of the Trump-Bondi campaign donation.

She is really good at this stuff.

And for that, we have Lucille Ball to thank. As the Chair and CEO of Desilu Studios (which produced "Star Trek" and several other notable TV series, including "The Untouchables" and "Mission Impossible"), and against the strong advice of her own company board of directors, she greenlighted and financed Gene Roddenberry's initial project, and then stood by the show through its first fits and false starts.

There could be a great show that is based on the truth of it.  I get that that isn't this show.  But I'm okay with it.

The Nation | September 6, 2016
What Phyllis Schlafly Might Have Been, If It Weren't For Women Like Phyllis Schlafly - "Painful as it is to acknowledge, Phyllis Schlafly, who died yesterday at the age of 92, was one of the most important American political organizers of the second half of the 20th century. In the 1970s, at a time when the women's movement seemed to be soaring from strength to strength, she forged a reactionary grassroots women's movement that defeated the Equal Rights Amendment at practically the eleventh hour -- a blow from which the feminist movement took decades to recover."

Even though Schafly's presence and skills proved a setback for the advancement of women's rights, we can be both proud and grateful that for the most part, we were able to hold the line and prevent a really significant rollback.

Donald Trump is not qualified to serve as president and does not deserve your vote.

ACLU sues for release of Philando Castile dashcam footage

The American Civil Liberties Union has brought a lawsuit demanding the release of video footage from a squad car dashboard camera from the day a St. Anthony police officer shot 32-year-old Philando Castile during a traffic stop earlier this year, the aftermath of which was live-streamed to millions of online viewers.

"There's so much chaos, it's very hard to work there," Coale said. Pressed on why Van Susteren used the clause to exit, he said, "There's more than meets the eye" and there "might be litigation in the future" but did not comment further.

I wrote in someone for that one because I'm really not a fan of my congressman Stephen Lynch, but he has blown out every primary challenger so far - so this year no one bothered.

The hot race this year is the little-known Register of Deeds (for Suffolk County aka Boston) position, which has managed to get no less than 6! challengers in the race.  Highly paid, little to no actual power or job to do, no wonder everyone wants it.

Short story is in May of 1996, in a very highly publicized story, a 19 y/o coed at California Polytechnic State University in San Louis Obispo went missing and has never been found.

Kristen Smart was last seen after an off-campus party in the very early morning with a male student, Paul Flores.

Paul took the 5th soon after, and 20 years later Kristen is still missing.

In the past few weeks new information had been found, and the FBI started excavating an area on campus.