Red queen
Paging Dr. Yen Lo: Donald Trump on Wednesday smashed yet another political taboo, calling on his buddies in Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails from her time as secretary of state (Page A6).
Pundits and journalists spent the rest of the day wondering what possessed Trump to say such a thing. The Buzz can only assume he had just received a phone call telling him, “Why don’t you pass the time with a game of Solitaire?”
Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: On a show called “Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle,” contestants vie to come up with the most novel insults (The Clicker, Page D6).
Spoiler alert: Donald Trump takes first, second and third places.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1984, Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale asked Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko for help defeating President Ronald Reagan (Today in History, Page D6).
Oops, we’d better make that Today in Donald Trump Alternate Universe History.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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