I've been featuring Elon Musk the past couple of days, and start off with him again because this was his   farewell moment in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump   this morning.  He is wearing a black Make American Great Again cap.  Earlier today, the  New York Times  reported: As Elon Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, he told people he was taking so much ketamine that it was affecting his bladder. He was also taking Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, and he traveled with a daily medication box of about 20 pills .   At the same time, he faced an increasingly turbulent family life. If you're barred from reading the NYT, try the  Guardian  version.  This newspaper indicated: Popular podcaster and public intellectual Sam Harris, who publicly ended his friendship with Musk,   wrote in a January   newsletter: “There is something seriously wrong with his moral compass, if not his perception of reality.”   F...

Donald Trump met with President Joe Biden at the White House today .  Four years ago, Trump was the first president in a long time not to have invited the incoming president.,,,Biden.  Worse, Trump did not bother to show up for Joe's Inauguration, the first absentee outgoing president to do this since Andrew Johnson's skipped Ulysses Grant's 1869 swearing-in ceremony.  Apparently all went well today. Senate Republicans voted on their new majority leader and picked  John Thune  of South Dakota. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida also ran.  Mitch McConnell was the longest serving leader in Senate history.  Scott was the only MAGA endorsed candidate, so Thune might not be what Trump will desire. One significant change to be instituted by the re-elected President Donald Trump will be to create at least one new department to allow for only true loyalists to serve in his bureaucracy.  This new one will be called the  Department of Gover...