I would guess that what happened is that over time Nixon’s attacks came to seem shopworn and thin. Defending him became more of a burden than the cost of abandoning him.

lie with impunity,

stress-inducing focus on end products

all social workers work at DHS and not all DHS workers and social workers

help students find their voice and use it to communicate their thoughts and ideas

Then he whored for his Virginia winery on the way out the door

Russia could use that detail to help identify the U.S. ally or intelligence capability involved. Officials said the capability could be useful for other purposes, possibly providing intelligence on Russia’s presence in Syria. Moscow would be keenly interested in identifying that source and perhaps disrupting it.

Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State’s territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.

Trump seemed to be boasting about his inside knowledge of the looming threat. “I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day,” the president said, according to an official with knowledge of the exchange.

There was "something wrong with" Mr. Comey

teaching the president* the secret to talking to the portraits in the hall

We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world.

I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It’s what you have to do.

Asked to flesh out his vision for a fair NAFTA in more detail, he can only come up with synonyms for “big”

tries and fails to think of the word “reciprocity.” (“We need reciprocality

I give students the option of using a pseudonym so that their digital work for my courses is not linked to their larger digital footprint.

‘Relational citizenship: Supporting embodied selfhood and relationality in dementia care’ develop this line of thinking by explicitly arguing for a notion of ‘embodied selfhood’.

importance of the construction of personhood in relation to dementia

fears have not diminished and may have prompted calls and means for voluntary euthanasia. This process appears to have occurred in parallel with what has been described as the ‘Alzheimerisation of ageing’. Reinforced by media reports of ‘institutional abuse’ in nursing homes, the intensified search for ‘a cure’, and the dire predictions of demographic apocalypse. The Alzheimerisation of ageing seems to contribute to the propagation of an associated and potentially negative ‘neuro-culture’ spread across the whole of society (Williams, Higgs & Katz, 2012).

2011-Present

his bathrobe

a lot of good things are happening and you're going to see a lot of love. You're going to see a lot of love. Ok?"

mental and psychological health.

mentally healthy president

only cares about himself and those he views as extensions of himself,

I’ve unfortunately had a great deal of experience with it

narcissistic personality disorder.

I think that I would create new beats. The language beat, language watch. Understand that normal is going to drift and shift and all sorts of things are about to happen and part of our job is to notice and document how it's happening. We may not be able to influence the course of events, but our job is to at least be able to tell the story."

And then the meeting continues without anyone blinking and saying, excuse me sir, nothing you just said makes any sense.

goes completely off the rails

tremendous

Washington Post was bad, but every once in a while I’d actually get a good article

I’ve been treated very rough

trying to make sense of his train of thought.

Trump’s stunning lack of mental competence

Imagine if Instructure, Dropbox, and Google hired more rogue humanities scholars. Imagine if we trained students of digital media and culture not just to criticize but to intervene in the development of emergent technologies.

He looks like a pumpkin having a nervous breakdown, talks like the words are being fired out of his mouth by a tennis ball launcher and has the general manner of an arrogant televangelist suspected of murder by Columbo. His approach to public speaking? “If in doubt, switch to your internal monologue.”

His core demographic? Possibly men whose holiday destinations would significantly overlap with a list of missing women.