BUT THAT WAS YESTERDAY, AND YESTERDAY'S GONE

I’ve said this before, but I have a few new readers now, so it’s time to say it again.  I make mistakes.  I have biases, conscious and unconscious, and although I think of myself as honest, I’m certainly not infallible. 

If I discover that I’ve made a factual error, I’ll correct it and point to the correction.  If I offer a prediction that turns out to be wrong, I’ll acknowledge that, too.  Ignoring your own mistakes is the surest way to lose whatever credibility you might have had in the first place.

Which brings me to Dr. Jill Stein, pictured here with Vladimir Putin and Michael Flynn at a dinner hosted by Putin in December, 2015.  Stein, of course, was the Green Party candidate for president in 2016.  Last October 14, candidate Stein, who knew that she’d have better luck trolling for votes among disaffected Democrats than among Republicans, said “Hillary Clinton's foreign policy is much scarier than Donald Trump's." 

Well, scary is as scary does.  Yesterday Stein tweeted “Urgent. Prevent WWIII. Flood the White House switchboard now: Negotiate don’t escalate with North Korea!”

Reasonable enough, I guess, but as New Republic senior editor Jeet Heer tweeted in response, “If there was only something Jill Stein could've done to stop Trump from becoming president.”

A little humility from Dr. Stein would have been nice.