Poor butterflies

So you think your life is hard?

Larry Nassar was in court again as some of the women he raped and molested gave their victim impact statements.  Poor Larry was so upset he wrote a six-page letter to the judge, demanding that she end this ordeal.  She didn't.  Her response included the word "delusional."  Nassar will probably seek a new trial on the basis of the judge's gender bias.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has been getting letters and phone calls from an organization called Ozark Indivisible, which takes exception to his health-care policy, which is basically to destroy the Affordable Care Act.  He has begun sending them, and other opinionated nuisances, a letter threatening to notify the D.C. Capitol Police.  Who do they think they are, citizens or something?  Cotton appears to have borrowed this hollow bullying technique from Bill O'Reilly, who used to threaten critics with "Fox Security" -- the dreaded Foxsturme.  Bill doesn't work there anymore, but not because of his bluster.

Reporters persist in asking questions which displease both Trump and Hockeypuck Sanders, but the Trumpanzees are on the case.  They now mob these reporters like a tree full of starlings, screaming at Jim Acosta and April Ryan (so far) so they can't be heard.  And the others do nothing.

Does anybody suffer more than America's Christian majority?  Not according to the proclamation of last Tuesday as "National Religious Freedom Day."  But there's hope, in the form of the Department of Health and Human Services's new "conscience and religious freedom division."  No longer will employers be forced to damn themselves by paying for contraception, nor pharmacists fill prescriptions for the devil's birth control.  I feel freer already.  Now if the Supreme Court will just protect bakers and caterers from being dragged into endorsing those wicked same-sex weddings, the Rapture will be here before you can say "prosperity gospel."

Forget about the families that have already been torn apart by ICE, the DACA people waiting to learn their fate.  Won't somebody think of Sebastian Gorka?  He can't go home to Hungary without being arrested on a gun charge.  (Yes, he worked in the White House with an outstanding warrant -- what about it?)  Fortunately, he also has American and British passports in his collection, so he doesn't need to.

And what about Chris Christie?  No longer a governor, he was refused the VIP entrance at Newark Airport and had to go through security like any common slob.  What a world.