Notations From the Grid (Special Friday Edition): #RandomThoughts Out & About in the United States This Week...

It has been quite a week in our World with all that has been going on.

We hereby present a sampling of the discourse over the "Grid":

News Alert

If You Think It Looks Bad for Mainstream Democrats Now, Just Wait Intelligencer – Jonathan Chait – Feb 6, 12:42 PM It is always darkest, John McCain used to say, before it gets totally black. So it is for the American center-left right now. Bernie Sanders is currently favored to win the nomination, a prospect that would make Donald Trump a heavy favorite to win… Shared by… 5 More info… Trump Is Blowing Up a National Monument in Arizona to Make Way for the Border Wall The Intercept – Ryan Devereaux – Feb 6 Contractors working for the Trump administration are blowing apart a mountain on protected lands in southern Arizona to make way for the president's border wall. The blasting is happening on the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a tract of… Shared by… 5 More info…