Donald Trump’s childish refusal to acknowledge his re-election loss this month enrages many Americans and endangers the country.

We have to put up with Trump’s progressively ridiculous and unsupported court challenges to the election mandate achieved by Joe Biden this month.

How do I know the court challenges are ridiculous and unsupported?

Simple! I l just listen to podcasts by Attorney Neal Katyal, former acting solicitor general of the United States, law professor, and legal affairs analyst in the media. (You can also follow Katyal on Twitter.)

Katyal’s two- or three-minute “Courtside” video podcasts on Instagram quickly demolish all legal maneuvers by Trump’s legal team.

Katyal is the antidote to any fears you harbor that Trump might prevail.

I recommend them for a good night’s sleep.

“One thing that an incoming president cannot choose,” writes Richard N. Haass, “… is the inbox that awaits him.”

So it is with President-Elect Biden. He has an overflowing inbox, says Haass.

The greatest fan of “Jeopardy” in my experience was my maternal grandmother, Bunnee Lola Zuckerman Taft.

Yes, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the presidency and vice presidency.

Given the undercurrent of complaints about the Democratic victory during Election Week — and that’s from the Democratic side! — it seems necessary to assert that a win a win. And this win is big. Or big enough.

It’s not a landslide. But it is a mandate. Especially in a country clearly divided. Even in a country with people fundamentally more alike rather than different.

E.J. Dionne Jr., columnist for The Washington Post, wrote Sunday that Biden’s victory “is far more substantial than the conventional take would have it and more revelatory about the future than Donald Trump’s election was four years ago.” …

Only one U.S. president, Donald Trump, has hit a disgraceful trifecta of miserable presidential accomplishments.

1. He lost the popular vote.
2. He was impeached or resigned — impeached, in his case.
3. He stood for re-election and lost.

This graphic was posted on Twitter today (8 Nov. 2020) by State Rep. Dave Rogers. In the Massachusetts Statehouse, he represents parts of Arlington, Belmont, and Cambridge. No idea as to the source of this illustration.

I am in awe of Joe Biden’s reading of “The Cure at Troy,” by Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Irish television news RTE tonight (Saturday, 7 Nov. 2020) signed off with a television video essay set to Biden reading the poem.

It was shared on Twitter this afternoon by Daniel Mulhall, Ireland’s ambassador to the United States, who is clearly thrilled to have an Irish-American heading to the White House.

Here’s the tweet and the link to the Biden TV essay.

Just a note: My father loved poetry. He would have enjoyed this reading.

Here’s the text to the 1991…

From the French newspaper Le Monde, a brilliant map illustrating the distribution of the Electoral College victory for President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris.

What a fine day for the United States! As for France, its president, Emmanuel Macron, was among the first world leaders to congratulate Biden and Harris.

Anyone who knows me halfway well knows I love geography and I love maps. This article is for people who join me in that interest. We’re going to look at maps of the United States. Ready to argue about them?

One of my favorite questions upon meeting a new person is to ask them where they live. The answer is often illuminating, especially if I ask about a neighborhood of a city or a region of their state or nation.

My interest derives from a San Diego Union-Tribune article published so long ago — in the early- to mid-1980s, I think —that I doubt it can be found on the Internet. In the article, the Union-Tribune attempted to define the myriad neighborhoods of San Diego by asking the experts to draw the lines. …