There is an old saying that all politics is local. In Wilton Manors, politics can sometimes feel even closer than that.

While taking unhurried strokes in the pool, I started asking myself, “Who are you, Brian McNaught?”

A man with a third grader’s intellect says all we need to regulate AI is a smart president. The same guy who will bark “hoax! hoax! hoax!” at climate change while Mar a Lago takes on water now insists that efforts to regulate AI are also a hoax. If Americans listen to this barking clown instead of scientists, engineers, and AI developers, we truly have entered Idiocracy, and we will get the killer robots we deserve.

One of the greatest gifts of South Florida’s entertainment community is the extraordinary talent that surrounds us. Eric Restivo is one of those special performers whose talent, personality and genuine warmth make every room a little brighter.

In “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” the classic children’s book by Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, the nasty Grinch, whose heart is “two sizes too small,” tries to stop Christmas in Whoville.

On Trump’s social media posts, he keeps depicting himself in fantasy roles: Superman, Jesus, the Pope, Sci-Fi leader of dystopian death machines & a larger than life military commander. His fantasies are sometimes “official,” communicated to the American public directly under White House insignia, and they frequently come in waves of multiple fantasies at one time. Over Labor Day he indulged and made it public 37 times.