A really bad day

"Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did," Captain Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office said.  He was describing Robert Long, who shot eight people at three Atlanta area massage parlors last night.  Long was arrested without being harmed by police and he bought his weaponry ahead of the current bill to tighten background checks, so one could say he had a pretty good day for a killer.  He won't say if his victims were chosen by race as attacks on Asians spike across the country, but he acknowledges having a "sex addiction."  Maybe if he weren't the son of a Baptist clergyman he wouldn't feel guilty for the normal urges of a 21-year-old, but that's my own speculation.  I'm going to speculate further that the murder of some rub-and-tug girls probably won't arouse the same degree of outrage as nine worshipers in a Charleston church.  We shall see.

Sex addiction is apparently a problem in Utah, too, and legislators are attacking it with a requirement that all tablets and phones sold in the state have software that blocks access to porn sites.  (As defined by who? we ask innocently.)  The bill awaits the signature of Governor Cocks Cox.  See how complicated it can be?  People lumbered with such software by their employers or other institutions have found it impossible to read about breast cancer, anal fissures and other medical topics flagged by the antiporn algorithms.  And after all, Utah is not China.  What's to stop people smuggling in devices from wide-open states like Nevada as travelers once slipped copies of Ulysses past US Customs?  If this becomes law it will just mean more work for the ACLU.  I guess I have to increase my monthly contribution.

 John Magufuli, the authoritarian, evangelical, critic-torturing president of Tanzania, has died at age 61.  Did I mention he also denied the severity, even the existence, of coronavirus?  His death is attributed to "heart complications," but complications of what remains unclear.  Sometimes poetic justice speaks in iambic pentameter.

Stella Keating, a transgender 16-year-old, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the new Equality Act.  As Rush Limbaugh is still dead, it will be up to one of his hate heirs to call her a slut. 

And speaking of hate, Mad Marge was brutally "ambushed" by members of the Guam National Guard, sent to give her a basket of cookies and a "book" (with words) about the island territory.  Kevin McCarthy is livid at the "politicization" of the military, what with defending female servicepeople from attacks by Tucker Carlson and now this atrocity.  Somehow they're being cancelled and the violence must end.  No more cookies.  Stop laughing.  It's very serious.  What's next, oranges?