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Rumors about Senator Dianne Feinstein getting pretty dotty at the age of 88 go back well over a year now, but things apparently are getting more serious with colleagues suggesting she has some very bad days.

[written in 2010] I certainly understand the collective whine coming from us progressives over the "loss" of Senators Dodd and Dorgen. But look, both of them have birthdays in May: Dodd will be 66 and Dorgan 68. When are these guys supposed to retire? Weve got the oldest US Senate in the history of forever. Forty-eight US Senators are over sixty-five, and twenty-seven of those are over seventy. [The current number shows 31 Senators over 70.] I dont want anyone to think Im being ageist h...

Dianne Feinstein Faces Fresh Round of ‘Rumors of Her Cognitive Decline’ The 87-year-old senator has visibly lost a step, but a new report features stories from (mostly anonymous) aides saying that her mental deterioration is a lot further along than we realize. California’s senior senator (and boy, do we mean senior!) Dianne Feinstein is well known to be a little out of step with her liberal California constituency. Out of 47 Democratic or Democratic-caucusing sitting senators, GovTrack...

One of the most talked-about articles of the week is a Jane Mayer piece in The New Yorker that tackles a delicate subject: aging members of Congress who have suffered some type of mental decline. Mayer, in her article, discussed the 87-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein extensively, but the article wasnt really about Feinstein exclusively, but rather, older members of Congress in general. And the journalist discussed that subject some more during a Friday, December 11 appearance on MSNBCs "Morning ...

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Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Returning to the upward trend. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, here, and I hate to see the upward rise, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks. I thought I’d look at some big states (New York, Florida, Texas, California) instead of the Midwest: The big states all moving more-or-le...

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