Warm day, sleeping dogs

Cassie, Butters, and I took a 40-minute walk to the lake and back in a 28°C heat index an hour ago, and both of them are passed out on various surfaces. Good, especially in Butters' case. (As I typed this, Cassie came over to investigate.)

Time for a round-up of my open browser tabs:

• Robert Wright calls the OAFPOTUS's trip to Beijing "an accidental triumph" even while Adam Kinzinger points out the obvious hypocrisy, and why that doesn't matter to MAGA.
• Speaking of hypocrisy, David French looks at the Southern Baptist Convention and the people who drove it far-right.
• Brian Beutler once again screams into the wind about the Democratic Party failing to punish cheating by the other side. "Democrats can’t stop Republicans from testing the limits of their power. In many cases they can’t even be certain that their resistance will be adequate to reversing the injustice. But they can create painful friction."
• Are dating apps dead?
• The last of the Eamus Catuli buildings has been demolished. Sad.

And let's all remember Hannah Arendt's assertion, quoted the other day by Paul Krugman: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." The OAFPOTUS shows why.