Incompotus Names Incompetent Intel Director; Can the US Default on its Debts? Tulipmania and AI; The Murder of "60 Minutes"

We know you keep up on the news. If you yearn for informed analysis spiced with humor, you have come to the right place. Bill, an academic economist, and Linda, a retired academic in media studies, are here to make sense out of the turbulence. This week: In National Intelligence, competence matters, so Trump names a loyal real estate mogul to the job; Sam Altman can charm the birds out of the trees. Is his race for unregulated Artificial General Intelligence another Tulipmania, only without anything as lovely and harmless as tulips? Bari Weiss, the hired gun of CBS News, "murders" "60 Minutes,"