"Is Paris Burning?"

"Is Paris Burning?" Dear Everybody: It's a Monday, so I'm going to start with some good news first before I get to all the bad news: --The Supreme Court refused to rehear Trump's appeal to throw out the decision declaring him guilty of defamation and sexual assault in the E. Jean Carroll case, which means he's out of options and won't be able to get the $5 million dollars-plus back from her. (He was actually out of options before since the Supreme Court had refused to hear the case once, this was an appeal of that decision.) --AK Doyle: "There comes a point when attorneys should be sanctioned for bringing these endless appeals of appeals. Enough already. Pay the lady." --Michael Banach: "There should be a $10 million dollar fine for continual abuse of the appeals process." --Captain Spatchcock: "We'll probably be dropping more bombs on Iran now. Or invading Greenland. He's gonna be highly mad." Now, on to the bad news, which is really bad: --Trump has ordered the US to "substantially reduce US military exercises with South Korea because his good buddy North Korea feels threatened by them. He said, "based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un," he was reducing the military exercises and would have cancelled them altogether except that the military told him it was too late to. He described Kim Jong Un as "non-threatening and respectful." --He also said he was doing it because South Korea refused to get involved in his war in Iran. (Note: Nobody in their right mind would want to get involved with his war in Iran at this point.) --North Korea continues testing missiles and improving its nuclear capabilities while repeatedly threatening South Korea and the United States. --Norm Ornstein: "Helping North Korea even as they send 50,000 troops to help Putin. Almost seems as if Vladimir Putin is acting as the White House chief of staff." --Ken Gordon: "God help us. North Korea just provided Russia with thousands of missiles to attack Ukraine, Russia is working with I…