8 September—No surprise that Altice’s criminally misnamed Optimum email server is screwing up yet again. It’s getting to be a habit. Oh well.

Getting past Altice, then, the good news is that Hunter Biden is going to be indicted by the end of the month for lying about his drug (and/or other illegal substance) use on his ATF Form 4473 gun-permit application five years ago. That’s a felony punishable by hard time—though probably in a country-club facility for a non-violent offender, especially if he’s wealthy and a president’s son.

In all events, I’ll believe the indictment when I see it. And after the indictment there’s always the trial. Unless Hunter pleads guilty, of course. Which might very well happen after another plea bargain his lawyers concoct with special counsel David Weiss. You’ll recall that Weiss was the prosecutor who would have allowed Hunter to avoid a felony conviction had it not been for an uncooperative judge who didn’t approve of the ludicrous leniency.

David Weiss, a card-carrying Republican, had been nominated by Donald Trump to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, but Hunter’s daddy, nice guy that he is, kept him on anyway. Don’t forget that Delaware is the Bidens’ home state. And don’t forget that daddy Joe’s cadre of counsels and keepers, knowing that Hunter’s wanton history was bound to haunt the old man, may well have advised him to hold on to a Republican prosecutor for strategic reasons.

And could Weiss have been overly lenient with POTUS scion Hunter for strategic reasons? Is it too cynical to opine that favors tend to beget favors—even in the administration of justice (or injustice, as the case may be)? Then there’s the gratitude factor to consider, of course, even though Weiss was (and is, once he decides to retire from the federal government) bound to do very well in the private sector. But David is probably a nice guy, just like Joe.

So all we can do is wait for the next Hunter Biden installment . . .