A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Another work week begins, and things in America under President Trump keep getting weirder by the day. The microwave ovens have eyes.... Perhaps one of the loopiest bits of news that caught our eye this morning is Kellyanne Conway's claim that former President Obama could have easily surveilled Trump Tower during the 2016 Presidential election by using....microwave ovens.  That's right. You read that correctly. The controversial Counselor to the President defended President Donald Trump's unverified claims that the previous Administration wiretapped his phone system in a 21st Century version of the 1972 Watergate scandal by telling USA Today that there are microwave ovens that turn into cameras. As the British newspaper The Telegraph reported recently: " She explained on USA Today: “What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other. “You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets — any number of ways.”