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Donald Trump, Hospitalized

Twitter induces headaches, but I can't look away. The reactions to Donald Trump's hospitalization could have been written months in advance. A certain group expressed glee. A second group self-righteously chastised the first group for having expressed glee. ("When they go low...." etc.) A third group chastised the second group for being self-righteous, and the anti-self-righteousness platform began to take on its *own* self-righteous glow. ("My thoughts are with the service workers....") I had two favorite responses to Trump's hospitalization. One came from Michael Che, on "SNL." Che said, "It may not be MORALLY right to make a joke about this.....but this is like the classic example of a joke..." Che went on to give a brief and delightful speech about situational irony. This is when actions have an opposite effect from what is intended. A teacher fails her own test. The cobbler forgets to provide his own son with shoes. "You...