By Tatiana Prophet

Sometimes you don’t want to know how the sausage is made, but you know you have to.

Some of us were undoubtedly unsettled at today’s Congressional hearing when we learned that European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland has never been a note taker. It makes perfect sense in any case that he would chafe at the refusal by the White House or State Department to provide him with his own official emails and texts to jog his memory — even if we might like to think that someone in that position would be extra conscientious.

Also unsettling: He half-smirked through the entire thing, almost like a hairless Prince Charles casually amused at his own casual approach to the job.