Outrage of the day

 Three Texas teenagers dressed as Klansmen for Halloween, which is tasteless but not illegal.  Then they attacked a Black high school student (and possibly five other children) with a Taser, which is.

Attacks on Asians in the US continue largely unnoticed.  An exception is the Olympic gymnast Suni Lee who was pepper-sprayed in a drive-by attack in Los Angeles last month.  

Kevin Gough, attorney for the lynchers in the Ahmaud Arbery case, objected to the presence of Al Sharpton in the courtroom because "he has no church in Glynn County."  "We don't want any more Black pastors in here," he added, singling out Jesse Jackson, who has not attended the trial.  He then compared it to "people dressed like Colonel Sanders with white masks," which was slightly confusing, and expressed fear that the nearly-white jury might be "intimidated" by Sharpton.  Judge Timothy Walmsley told him to knock it off.

Meanwhile in Kenosha (Ojibwe for "clusterfuck"), Bruce Schroeder made it clear that he's not biased against Blacks.  Sorry, that should have read "not just biased against Blacks."  In a discussion of lunch he "joked," "I hope the Asian food isn't coming -- it's not, isn't one of those boats in Long Beach harbor."  Kyle's mom Wendy visited Sean Hannity last night to praise Schroeder's fairness ("A Daniel come to judgment," she didn't quote) and to attack President Biden, a prerequisite for a Hannity booking.  "President Biden don't know my son whatsoever....he defamed him" by using video of Kyle strutting around with his AR-15 in a campaign ad.  "I thought my son was going to die that night...this guy just pointed a gun at his head...But he has a lot of healing to do.  He does have nightmares from this," said the woman who drove him to Kenosha.

"I'm totally confused," said SpongeSean's stablemate Tucker Carlson, perhaps the first true words he has spoken this year.  He was admiring Russia's huge reserves of energy and its "major player" status, and couldn't understand why we would support piddly little Ukraine against Russian aggression.  A Republican Congressman from Ohio, Mike Turner, tried to straighten him out, but Tuckums did not appear to grasp why a democracy might be worthier than a dictatorship.  Hungary, that's his kind of country.

Another Republican Congressman, Fred Upton of Michigan, is upset because his vote for the infrastructure bill has called down death threats on him, his family and his staff.  He has been in office for 36 years but this is something new, he says.  He had to close his two Michigan offices while security was upgraded.  I wouldn't worry, Congressman.  Anonymous death threats are Valentines from impotent morons.  And those who kill don't threaten.  It's bad tactics to warn the victim.

Britney Poolaw is a Native American woman in Oklahoma who suffered a miscarriage in her fourth month of pregnancy.  She has been sentenced to four years in prison for manslaughter.  Ball's in your court, Texas. 

Mark Meadows ignored a subpoena to appear before the Select Committee on the insurrection.  He faces contempt charges.  But hey, it's not like he's Arthur Miller or Dalton Trumbo.  All he did was conspire to overthrow an election.  Could somebody slip a mirror under Merrick Garland's nose?  

In fake outrage news, Newt Gingrich, Eric Trump and Hannity jumped on Joe Biden's use of the word "Negro" in his Arlington remarks yesterday to claim him as a fellow racist.  In fact he was talking about Satchel Paige and Jackie Robinson having played in the Negro Leagues before joining the majors.  (If Biden ever has occasion to talk about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People they might "faint" on the air.)  Really, boys?  Running out of material so soon?  Better pace yourselves, he'll be in office another three years, no matter what Pillow Mike says.

Journalist Danny Fenster was sentenced to eleven years in prison for various bullshit "crimes" in Myanmar, a military dictatorship and Tuckums's kind of country.  Trump would be gloating if he had the vaguest idea where Myanmar is.

Enough outrage.  Vote now.