Never one to use a scalpel when there is a machete at hand, the president denounced the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, a dunderheaded move but a reason for giving thanks today because it elicited from Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, 2018's most exquisitely mixed metaphor: "He shot from the hip with a sledgehammer instead of using a scalpel." Sifting this year's other detritus, let us also be thankful for the following amusements:
Finding fresh reasons for indignation is a challenge in fury-saturated America, but Halsey, a singer, rose to it, saying that hotels' "white people shampoo" furthers the "disenfranchisement" of people of color.
A Dutch man, 69, noting that advanced thinkers think gender fluidity is real, wondered why not age, too, and demanded that all records of his birthdate be revised to say he is 49 because that is how he "feels."