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-- I was going to write something about how hard it was to get myself agitated about President Trump's "I can pardon myself" tweeting, but it turns out that Charles Cooke wrote it instead. Yes, Cooke writes for National Review and is thus a pure evil who divides his time between clubbing baby seals and stealing candy from random toddlers, but he has just spent several years becoming a United States citizen and so he's pretty up on his separation of powers and constitutional clauses and such.

-- The cool thing about Stephen Colbert is how he is willing to hold powerful people accountable for what they say and not cut them breaks just because he happens to like them.

-- This is ridiculous. Her plotline in The Last Jedi was not really necessary but was hardly the worst aspect of the movie. Even if it had been, the fault for it lies not with Kelly Marie Tran but with the lazy script. But even if it had been her "fault," what's the point of harassing someone's social media account because of dislike for a character?

-- You can't stop the signal.