Perspective from the 19^th Hole is the title I chose for my personal blog, which is meant to give me an outlet for one of my favorite crafts – writing – plus to use an image from my favorite sport, golf.  Out of college, my first job was as a reporter for the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon, and I went on from there to practice writing in all my professional positions, including as press secretary in Washington, D.C. for a Democrat Congressman from Oregon (Les AuCoin), as an Oregon state government manager in Salem and Portland, as press secretary for Oregon’s last Republican governor (Vic Atiyeh), and as a private sector lobbyist.  This blog also allows me to link another favorite pastime – politics and the art of developing public policy – to what I write.  I could have called this blog “Middle Ground,” for that is what I long for in both politics and golf.  The middle ground is often where the best public policy decisions lie.  And it is where you want to be on a golf course.

If you need another reason to question the sanity of Donald Trump as he runs for president, consider this.

He is saluting Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal in the film, Silence of the Lambs. 

Trump invokes Lecter as a “great man.” He probably the movie’s Lecter thinks is a real figure, one to be modeled.

Need any more to question and oppose Trump?

I don’t!

I’ll just add this to an already long list. 

But I did find another word this morning that describes Trump to a T:  Supercilious. 

It means this:  “Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.”

That’s Trump.