How nice to have the Sydney Sweeney “great genes” controversy. It is happily of no consequence, which is just what we need for escape from unhinged behavior spilling out of Washington.

President Donald Trump’s sending nuclear subs toward Russia, a likely distraction from his tangle with Jeffrey Epstein, is something I don’t want to think about. Not far behind is his firing the keeper of labor statistics over the less-than-stellar employment numbers she had to report.

Trump’s top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, was on the Sunday talk shows defending that action. “It’s the President’s highest priority that the data be trusted,” he said.

Talk about numbers, Hassett co-wrote a book titled “Dow 36,000.” Published in 1999, it predicted the index, then averaging just over 11,000, would approa

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