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[The world continues to roil around him, and yet he remains mum. Rainfall of Biblical proportions for eight days straight, a seemingly momentous Supreme Court ruling purportedly putting a vagrant administration in its place, ludicrous Congressional gassing about flag burning (almost as rarely seen as the Higgs boson) and treason at the New York Times (i.e., reporting on a program the administration has already disclosed), Hamas and Fatah bury the hatchet and agree to recognize Israel’s right to exist, Israel invades Gaza to free a soldier captured by militants … it leaves him speechless.]