A brief rush of sanity to the national brain

Federal judge stays Trump order against Arab countries that don’t do business with him.

Thanx to andrewducker

Group pride

My Swarthmore graduating class includes all sorts of nifty people, such as Judge Jed Rakoff, Eleanor Arnason, and a retired Foreign Service officer who wrote on our class web page:

As I promised his father I would be, I was at the grave in Arlington National Cemetery (Section 60, Grave 7986) of Capt. Humayun Khan during the swearing-in at noon on January 20. Not another soul in sight