Nope. Not Humbert Humbert.

A reach too far.

The opposite of the principle of charity turns everything possible of what he says into racism or what the PC media are pleased to call sexism, misogyny, sexual harassment, or "inappropriate remarks."

Your true epigone of HH would have said he'd be "dating" that ten year old in two years, not ten.

Trump campaign rocked by new wave of sexual harassment allegations

Which is not to say he isn't a horn-dog or that his promises to expel 11 million illegals, most of them Indian, mestizo, or black, and make Mexico pay for a wall along the border don't draw support largely or even mostly from white people out to preserve their dominance in the USA.

Nor to deny that if he were a Democrat James Carville would be saying it's just sex, everybody lies about sex, and everybody does dumb things about sex, just as he has always done in defense of Bill Clinton.

A transvaluation of values

Again, she said to him, "Father, why do you eat miserable bread like that?"

"Because, my daughter."

"Well, if you eat it, I'll eat it."

Then, so that Cosette would not eat whole wheat bread, Jean Valjean ate white bread.

What do you think?

Did he cut off the crusts?

Throw away the heels?

Les Miserables.

Meanwhile, I have only recently discovered the virtues and wonderful flavors of whole wheat bread, pita, and English muffins.

I have never cut off the crusts or thrown away the heels.

Crazy is how he earns adulation

Trumps says if Clinton wins ISIS will take over the US

But if he wins he will save us, of course.

Trump now says that Isis wants Clinton to win because if she does, “they’ll not only take over that part of the world, they’ll take over this country, they’ll take over this part of the world.”

Isis will take over the United States if Hillary Clinton is elected president. – Donald Trump

Sure, there is no such person. But still.

Bradley Manning.

Chelsea Manning emerges from solitary confinement after suicide attempt

A prisoner attempts suicide, for real or not, and so you handle it by putting him in solitary?

The government's treatment of this fellow has been outrageously cruel and at times unconstitutional - I mean in a genuinely objectionable way, such as holding him for years, much of the time in solitary, before even trying him - from the very beginning.

Clinton leads in the polls

RCP Polls

Pretty consistently ahead over the last week or so.

The Philippine UberTrump

He thinks he gets to pursue whatever loony policies he wants and we still have to defend his country.

Duterte Says He Ordered Preparations for US Drills Scrapped

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday he has ordered his defense chief not to prepare for joint exercises with the U.S. military next year as he moved to realize his threat to scrap a high-profile symbol of his country's treaty alliance with Washington.

Duterte, however, reiterated he would not abrogate a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty with the U.S. that provides a security umbrella for the Philippines. 

He has said, however, that he'll chart a foreign policy not dependent on Washington.

. . . .

Aside from halting at least 28 joint combat exercises with U.S. forces each year, including the Balikatan or shoulder-to-shoulder drills that involve thousands of American and Filipino troops each year, Duterte has opposed joint patrols with the U.S. Navy in the disputed South China Sea. 

He also wants U.S. counterterrorism troops out of his country's south, saying they inflame restiveness among minority Muslims, who resent atrocities committed by American colonial forces in the early 1900s.

. . . .

Duterte, who took office in June and labels himself as a left-wing politician, however, has taken steps to scale back his country's military engagements with the U.S., which has criticized his bloody fight against illegal drugs, earning his ire. 

Contrastingly, Duterte has reached out to China and Russia.

Last week, the foul-mouthed Duterte told Barack Obama to "go to hell." 

He issued a new warning to his detractors Wednesday.

"If I don't respect you anymore, be prepared for the worst because I can give you gallons of gallons of epithets, curses," Duterte said.

Hillary and Bill's bimbos

Reality Check: Did Hillary Clinton attack her husband's accusers?

If this is right, I stand corrected.

I had taken a much darker view of her role.

Dems to GOP: Trump is you

Clinton was once willing to draw a distinction between "normal" Republicans and Donald Trump.

Not anymore.

The unambiguous message is that Clinton’s offer not to treat Trump as a totem of the Republican Party has expired. 

Obama underscored the shift in strategy this week when he upbraided these Republicans for sticking with Trump through disgrace after disgrace. 

“Why’d it take so long for some of them to finally walk away?” he asked.

It's not just the stock market

The lemmings who dominate the day at the exchanges immediately flee bad news and then, after a few days, they see the sky hasn't fallen and return.

The China panic, the Brexit panic, and there's always another panic.

Likewise . . .

Republican politicians fall back in line behind Trump after defecting

And this should give us pause.

We were reminded of both these quotes during Blake Farenthold’s appearance on MSNBC last night. 

Asked by host Chris Hughes whether he would still support Trump even if the Republican nominee said on tape that he liked raping women, the congressman from Texas suggested he might — eventually adding he'd “consider it.”

“Again — it depends — you don't know the entire context of all of this,” he said. 

“That would be bad, and I would have to consider — I'd consider it. But again, we're talking about what Donald Trump said 10 years ago as opposed to what Hillary Clinton has done in the past two or three years.” 

So he sees Trump as, on politics, that much a lesser evil, eh?

The revolutionaries aren't all with Sanders

Pence to 'Revolution' Rally-goer: 'Don't Say That'

The woman, who identified herself as Rhonda, told the GOP vice presidential nominee that she was worried because "our kids' futures depend on this election."

"I will tell you just for me — and I don't want this to happen — but I will tell you for me, personally, if Hillary Clinton gets in ... I'm ready for a revolution because we can't have her in," she said in an emotional moment.

Pence, who remains steadfast to running mate Donald Trump, interjected: "Yeah, you don't want — don't say that."