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You’d think by the epidemic of sexual assault, rape and harassment allegations that all powerful men are pervs. It’s not true. Just most of them. … Well, we’e all glad that pesky Russian interference in our elections is finally over. President Trump told reporters traveling on Air Force One that he knows Vlad the Impaler Putin didn’t do it. “Every time he sees me, he says, ‘I didn’t do that,’ and I believe, I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it.” And we believe that Trump’s son and son-in-law met with Russian operatives to discuss adoption . . . . We also believe that Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was tackled off his riding mower by his neighbor, breaking six ribs over inappropriate leaf blowing. It happens. A guy blows leaves onto your property, even though he himself is a staunch believer in property rights, and you tackle him and break his bones. Luckily it had nothing to do with rotten politics, just rotted leaves. Right. Or maybe left.