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The tragicomic hallucination that you see unfolding every day, wherein ostensible adults discuss secret war plans in hackable social media texts replete with emojis, exclamation points and lols, is what the American people freely chose.

Maybe it’s the way they suck at their teeth after eating microwaved fish at their desk, or just the emails that have too few exclamation points or a few too many.

It put an exclamation point on that string of failure last year by matching a league record with 25 losses and breaking the MLS record for goals allowed with 78.

“While this fact is an exclamation point on global warming, it is also telling us that we have much more to learn,” Serreze said.

Mr. Auld-Thomas says, “That really puts an exclamation point behind the statement that, no, we have not found everything, and yes, there’s a lot more to be discovered.”