Ya, that performance was pretty damn good. It's playing the San Diego Civic theatre pretty soon if I remember correctly.

Haven't seen Hamilton, have watched that White House video many times.

I love how Michael Schur (Fire Joe Morgan, creator of Parks & Rec, Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) described how completely insane the notion of a Hamilton play is:

I want to bold the best part, but it's all the best part.

I have a similar story about a "bad idea" project that wasn't so bad.

I was hanging out at a grad student retreat for my department with Rebecca Sloot in like 2000. She was the girlfriend of a friend, another grad student (she was also a grad student but in another department). The group was having a beer shindig and Rebecca and I were having a smoke on the patio of a cabin where we were staying. She said she was working on a book about a woman whose cancer cells became the subject of much biological research, Henrietta Lacks. I said something mildly encouraging, but thought, "Ya, that's not gonna do any business."

Well, it took her a long time to write and was released a decade later [nothing like being a nobody with a 10-year project hanging over your head], but it won a bunch of awards, was a NY Times #1 bestseller, was the most assigned book for incoming college students, and was made into a movie starring Oprah. https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Life.../dp/1400052181

So I guess my "radar" regarding its potential success was a bit off.

(She married my friend, now a philosophy professor, and they had two kids but later divorced.)

Adam Curtis got there first, so a little market research might have changed your perspective.

Hot take:

In the Heights > Hamilton

Trump on another Twitter meltdown.

Vibe on Twitter is something big is going to break tomorrow. Kush has been in the news a bunch lately. Indictments incoming?

If shoplifting is 5-10 years, what do you get for treason in China?

Lol GOP base showing their true nature in those tweets.

Donald Trump: These uppity ******s are so ungrateful. 200k likes, 60k retweets.
Donald Trump: Loser Jeff Flake is interfering with our tax cuts. 20k likes, 6k retweets.

Not scorching. I almost agree as far as the cast recording goes for listening pleasure. For theatre experience Hamilton wins.

"mike"

Flake and Collins are "No," they are down to their last vote. Close to zero chance McCane votes for this ****.

Interviews expected this week:

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/19/56486...teele-its-real

Also, Huckabee-Sanders says investigation will wrap up after Thanksgiving.

"Given our huge deficits, why is it necessary to give a huge tax cut to the 1%, considering how much better they have been doing in this global economy over the last thirty years as we have seen the middle class dwindle?"

I want to ****ing vomit reading that your favourite president line.

eh, doesn't the tax vote need 60?

I like how Trump just casually assumes the mantle of some kind of world authority, "I should have left them in jail!" as if he's the sole decision maker in all things. I mean I KNOW he knows they were arrested in China because he mentions that.

No

Video of Flake taking to John Giles, Mayor of Mesa AZ. Politico called Mesa the most conservative city in the US a couple of years ago. I doubt that but whatever.

Special Counsel sends wide-ranging request for documents to Justice Department

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating whether President Donald Trump sought to obstruct a federal inquiry into connections between his presidential campaign and Russian operatives has now directed the Justice Department to turn over a broad array of documents, ABC News has learned.

In particular, Mueller's investigators are keen to obtain emails related to the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the earlier decision of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from the entire matter, according to a source who has not seen the specific request but was told about it.

Pretty sure the tax vote needs 60, especially the house version, but one can argue the Senate version needs 50. Not 100% on this, but both versions seem to be violating the Byrd Rule (no deficit increase beyond 10 years), but maybe changes to the Senate bill (kill individual mandate) make it eligible for reconciliation. Pretty sure reconciliation rules exist so you can't restructure everything with 50 votes and dotard for president, but a lot of things used to exist before McConnell started going ham.

I see Trump's tilt as based on the fact that "tax reform" ain't gonna pass.

Flake: "If we become the party of Roy Moore and Donald Trump, we are toast."

Also Flake: *Rubber stamps deplorable bloggers for federal judgeship in committee and confirmation*