"He's a character. He's a real personality. He's very smart... And he's a real leader... He's pretty mercurial--I don't say that in a bad way, but he's a pretty mercurial guy. He likes me, I like him. Some people say I shouldn't like him. Why shouldn't I like him?"

Why shouldn't he "like" him?

Kim rules with extreme brutality, making his nation among the worst human rights violators in the world.

In North Korea, these crimes "entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation," concluded a 2014 United Nations report that examined North Korea.

Lindsey Graham OTOH thinks it's just terrific.

I am the kind of person who would rather be uncomfortable for hours than use a public restroom. But, sometimes especially on long trips, I have no choice.
Recently, while on a trip, rather than use the restroom at the gas stationed I had stopped at, I decided to go to a big box store nearby because I assumed it would be a lot cleaner.
I was in the stall in the women's restroom taking care of business when I saw a boy about 12-13 years old (way past the age for him to be using the women's restroom) standing outside my stall watching me. There was such a wide gap on either side of the stall door that I don't know why they even bothered putting in a door.

Anyway, I was so startled that at first I just froze and when the boy did not move even though he saw me looking at him, I yelled at him to move away. It did not faze him one bit. He just stood there and kept looking at me. I finally said I would call security if he did not move away. To my utter shock, he went into the stall next to mine and then lay down on the floor and scooted under the divider towards me at which point I start to panic and shout. He got back up and again just stood outside my stall door looking at me. The whole time, I was shouting and amazingly no one heard me. A couple minutes later, I heard a woman calling out to him and he left. I stayed in the stall a few more minutes just to calm down. My husband was waiting for me outside and as soon as I walked out, he took one look at me and said what's wrong.
I did not report it to the store manager or inform security, I just wanted to get the he11 out of there.

Simi Valley announced Saturday it would settle a federal lawsuit, giving Coley $21 million for his almost four decades of wrongful incarceration in the 1978 murders of Rhonda Wicht and her 4-year-old son, Donald. Thirty-nine years is the longest prison term overturned in California, the city says.

US from Jordon Peel (Get Out) Next month

The two in May
BRIGHTBURN Which is basically exactly the story of Superman if Superman was the monster in a horror movie

The operation was part of a broader government effort to safeguard the 2018 elections, involving the departments of Homeland Security, State and Justice, as well as the FBI. It was led by Gen. Paul Nakasone, who in July formed the Russia Small Group, made up of 75 to 80 personnel from CyberCom and NSA, which are part of the Defense Department.

He is a racist.
He is a conman.
He is a cheat.
He was a presidential candidate who knew that Roger Stone was talking
with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National
Committee emails

Pretty much what you would expect, but what I found interesting, like really interesting is that it gives you an insight into how a lot of people can be logically talked into believing something that is demonstrably false.  From Global Warming to Trump to religion, very similar in how the get over obstacles like reality & the truth.

At the core its a lot of people who are outside of society coming together and believe in something with other people who have been pushed aside.  I think the unity/camaraderie of it all is most appealing to these folks and believing the ridiculous is just a byproduct to get into the 'club'.  They are proud to believe in something the mainstream thinks is ridiculous.

In this case the 'club' has convinced themselves that we are all in Truman-esque type Hollywood set, where our reality is controlled.  Of course they never get into the details, like who controls it and why or who paid for it, it's just assumed, I think.  There aren't many new comers to this group, for the most part these are people who spend their lives 'proving' conspiracies.

Oprah Winfrey is set to interview Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the two men accusing Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in the new HBO documentary Leaving Neverland. The interview special, Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland, will air immediately after the two-part film wraps on March 4th at 10 p.m, simultaneously on HBO and Oprah's OWN network.

Per a statement, the special was "taped before an audience of survivors of sexual abuse and others whose lives have been impacted by it." Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed will also partake in the conversation

President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White House's top lawyer, four people briefed on the matter said.

Mr. Trump's decision in May so troubled senior administration officials that at least one, the White House chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been "ordered" to give Mr. Kushner the top-secret clearance.

The White House counsel at the time, Donald F. McGahn II, also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about Mr. Kushner -- including by the C.I.A. -- and how Mr. McGahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance.

A Washington Post article first posted online on Jan. 19 reported on a Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial. Subsequent reporting, a student's statement and additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred, either contradicting or failing to confirm accounts provided in that story -- including that Native American activist Nathan Phillips was prevented by one student from moving on, that his group had been taunted by the students in the lead-up to the encounter, and that the students were trying to instigate a conflict.

André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music -- and between composing, conducting and performing -- in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.

A review I read described it as exhaustingly horrifying