Recovering from Obama

First, let me thank my colleague Jim Swift for pinch-hitting for me last week. He expressed concern at the end of his pinch-newsletter that, upon reading it, I might “indulge in the Trumpian impulse to say ‘You’re fired!'”Au contraire. Jim did such a good job that I’m inclined to have him substitute more often. Which would be an example of one maxim of whose truth I’ve grown increasingly convinced over the years: No good deed goes unpunished.