President has made some perplexing choices for his cabinet.  The first batch made some sense.  The latest seems cloying, if not baffling and certainly stunning. Take  Matt Gaetz as Attorney General .  Here Trump should have selected a lawyer with gravitas and high credibility.  Surely there are many of them, who would still be supremely loyal to him.  Trump called Gaetz  a deeply gifted and tenacious attorney .  A 42-year old Floridian with a law degree from William and Mary,  Gaetz  practiced law for two years, never as a prosecutor, partly tainted by one suspension.  You would think that his legal shallowness and potential for not being confirmed by the Senate would influence him to for now hold on to his House seat.  But he just resigned from the Congress.  Perhaps Gaetz's irredeeming virtue is that he too has some sexual issues clouding his past.  He will become a weapon for Trump. The other worrisome selection is...

Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, and has a population of 245,000.  Shaped like an upside down Maui, each side formed by separate volcanoes.  Beaches are black.  The philosophy is  not to worry .  Pape'ete is the capital, with an urban population of 136,771, or 27,000, depending on which portion.  Called a sleepy town.  I can one up that by saying town at sleep, for I made a walking tour, and virtually everything was closed at 2:30PM on a Saturday.    Close by is Faa'a International Airport. Le Marche is the town marketplace.  Of course it was closed when I walked by.  But that is because it opened from 5:30AM to 1PM.  A worthy stop would be the Botanical Garden/Gauguin Museum. Britisher Samuel Wallis discovered Tahiti in 1767.  Of course Captain Cook also landed, two years later. Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin, a French Post-Impressionist artist, spent the final decade of his life in French Polynesia, leav...