American politics. Its so unfamiliar, it feels like we are covering something in a foreign language. But i swear, this really happened today. Knock me over with a feather. I swear this happened. All right. You might remember early this year we learned that ben carson, who had been a republican president ial candidate, he ran against trump in the primaries, then he endorsed trump for president after he dropped out of the primaries, then trump named ben carson to his cabinet, named him secretary of hud, housing and urban vent. You might remember early this year that we learned that ben carson, upon moving into hud as the head of that new agency, he decided that he needed a 31,000 table for his office. Remember that . It was kind of like dining set. Im not clear why youd need a dining set in your office if he dienz dines in his office. Job, i dine in my office, over the keyboard, unfortunately. Ben carson wanted a 31,000 table to dine. The the way that little scandal shook out was a caree