Kudos to...

[dreamshark]

•  Senator Susan Collins for sticking to her guns despite the GOP's shameful attempt to buy her vote
• The NFL players who have continued with quiet dignity to defy an increasingly unhinged president and to the team owners who have supported them. I was particularly impressed with the latest display, wherein the Dallas Cowboys found a way to modify their protest slightly to make it clear that it was not the flag they were disrespecting. 
• Robert Mueller, who just keeps plodding onward with the dogged persistence of the legendary Pinkerton detectives.