Honestly? Honestly!

Morning golf course:

• Some meta:  John Oliver discusses local journalism.  AlterNet. Video.  Summary by Alexandra Rosenmann.
• Bob Somerby of The Daily Howler on the reportage of the emails.

  (In our view, the question seems to be settled about three "marked" emails—settled in a way which reflects poorly on Comey rather than on Clinton.)
  
  We'd like to know if Hillary Clinton really was "extremely careless" with those 110 emails! That said, the Washington Post still seems unable to produce a clear account of the basic things Comey has said. Could a newspaper which seems so unclear on the basic facts help resolve that question?

• The businessman has no clothes.  Digby, Hullabaloo.  Mostly from an article in the New York Times, but I have obituaries to note.  
• Also from Hullabaloo's Tom Sullivan:  Republican Satanic panic Fear of the manufactured issue of voter fraud goes way back.  With charts and numbers.  Voter ID would not prevent the most prevalent form of fraud, by the way.  

  Fraud hucksters are — and/or they think the rest of us are — gullible enough to believe that, unlike Us, each Election Day hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people (you know, Them) go to the polls, not to do their patriotic and civic duty like “real Americans,” no, but to commit felonies punishable by five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each offense, "plus additional state penalties," Berman adds. All so they can a single extra vote to their preferred candidate's total.

• What's wrong with this headline?
  
  OK, not really. Some tweets with the hashtag KatrinaPiersonHistory which are, let's say, less than complimentary to her instruction in history, her recollection of current events, and her employer.
  
  (If I did Twitter, my entry with that hashtag would be "Obama Built the Berlin Wall.")
• Supporters of the Republican presidential candidate speak.  Have a hot shower and lots of soap ready before reading.  (Zandar Versus The Stupid, who goes there so you don't have to.)
• Ahem:

  For a man who claims he's an incredible rich successful and talented businessman, this ad is an embarrassment.
  
  Also striking is that the Clinton campaign can use Trump's own words, in lengthy segments, to highlight his offensive traits and idiotic exploits; Trump on the other hand, has to ham-handedly edit and misrepresent HRC to come up with what amounts to be middle school level production values.

  John Amato, Crooks and Liars.  "Television advertising is such a graphic business."
• Theology, a point of (Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names):

  Douthat and the killer (a local kid who knew very well who he was attacking) are working together to craft a narrative of ineluctable conflict, to the death, in opposition to the reality of integration and love that Hamel worked so hard to create and for which he did in effect die.

• Speaking of Douthat (were we?  I forgot), Professor Chaos administers a well-deserved (non-kinky) spanking:

  Yeah, no she doesn't.
  She has already expanded her percentage of the non-racist vote. And the non-misogynist vote. And the I-don't-want-a-president-who-gets-into-Twitter-wars-with-Rosie-O'Donnell vote. And the I-don't-want-a-President-whose-only-experience-is-being-a-businessman-who-has-had-multiple-bankruptcies vote. I think she's going to be fine. But thanks for your fake concern.