Thank you for taking on me as part of your week, and thank you to all the bloggers and podcasters who make doing this round-up such a joy. There's so much good work going on in the lefty Blog-o-Sphere. That's a wrap!

Mike the Mad Biologist offers some advice to the Democratic Party.

The Rectification of Names looks at the mad skills of Trump the Negotiator.

Politics Plus has a unique take on the role Manafort might have played in the Little Kremlin on the Potomac scandals.

Bonus Track: Open Culture alerts us to a new Philip K. Dick series, Electric Dreams coming out of the UK and now on Amazon Prime.

Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors. You can follow Tengrain on the Twitters, too. Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with For MBRU in the subject line).