The Political Page, T+35 -- February 24, 2017

From an earlier post, but worth repeating:

This is the opening paragraph of Elizabeth Drew's essay in the current issue of TNYRoB:

When the most unpopular and least prepared president-elect in modern history took the oath of office on January 20, most of Washington, like most of the country, an the world, had little idea of the turbulence and disruption that he intended to bring to the job. Nonetheless those who'd watched him closely over the past year and a half were aware that he was manifestly unfit for a job that's beyond the capacities of most people.

Read that again, slowly, parsing each phrase. 

The following is how I parsed that opening paragraph with my thoughts in bold red. 

When the most unpopular and least prepared president-elect in modern history: the most unpopular and least prepared individual soundly defeated Hillary Clinton.

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Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Rod Stewart
From The Los Angeles Times: Shasta Dam makes history -- water flows from top gates first time in 20 years.

• reservoir at 135% of its historical average for this time of year
• at 93% of its capacity
• releasing billions of gallons of water to make room for incoming flows the spring melt and recent rains
• flowing at rate of up to 70,000 cubic feet per second -- per second
• Shasta Dam: linchpin of California's federal water project
• Oroville Dam: linchpin of California's state water project
• the last release from Shasta Dam was during the state's last huge rainy season, 1997 - 1998
• Lake Shasta has risen 3 feet in just the last three days
• the snowpack in Sierra Nevade is at levels never seen before 

From Carpe Diem, February 24, 2017: and they said raising the minimum wage to $15/hour would have no/minimum impact on prices:

Wow, look at the price of a frappuccino at Starbucks. This is why I get the "senior" coffee at McDonald's (50 cents; yes, 50 cents). And a chicken sandwich at Chik-Fil-A is as much as an entree at a sit-down restaurant (at $8.21). Wow.