There has been some talk that former President Donald Trump will be arrested today. If he is, talk of Guo Wengui's arrest will fade into the background. Before it does, though: The Trumper fire who was our last President was quite sparing about which of his grifter buddies he pardoned. If, God forbid, he ever gets another crack at it he will presumably extend pardons far and wide but, last time around, he kept the circle narrow, perhaps to generate incentives for all the grifters in the galaxy o work hard to see that there would be a next time. Against that background, federal prosecutors in New York recently arrested exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. On the Trump scorecard, he is a friend-of-a-friend. Steve Bannon, on the other hand, is a friend. Full stop. Trump, you may remember, signed Bannon's pardon, freeing him from responsibility for the We-Fatten-the-Wall-it-oddly-looks-like-Bannon's-wallet scam: he signed this document in his final hours in office...
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It is a journalistic staple, the "woman who broke the glass ceiling in field X" story. It can feel a bit forced. Recently Republicans have been telling us that we ought to celebrate the first woman to head the CIA, and we ought to recognize President Trump as her enabler. Sorry: I'm not big on celebrating torturers and evidence destroyers. And that particular ceiling might have remained intact without any harm to womankind. I recently tried and failed to sell an unusual glass ceiling sort of story myself. It didn't have to do with torture. It involved yachts, motorboats, and boating. It involved in particular the sort of journalism that addresses those matters. I didn't make the sale, so I'll use that material here. It began as an obituary.... ------------------- Bonnie Jean O’Boyle passed away on March 18, 2018. She was the first woman ever to serve as the editor-in-chief of a boating magazine. She co-founded Power and Motoryacht (PMY) in 1...