Where is John-John?

 They waited all day, the huddled masses yearning to see Trump restored, but John F. Kennedy, Jr., never appeared in Dealey Plaza or anywhere else.  Never mind, plenty of time.  It's two thousand years and counting for Jesus, after all.

And then there were nineteen:  Hardly had Judge Bruce Schroeder seated twenty jurors in the case of Wisconsin v. Rittenhouse than one of them made a joke so racist that even Schroeder worried about "the appearance of bias" and sent him home.  The judge spent part of yesterday railing against "the media...saying things that are totally bizarre."  He also delivered a speech about the trial of St. Paul in Rome to explain the hearsay rule.  (Surely he meant that other trial in Jerusalem:  "So you're the king of the Jews?"  "You said it, not me.")  Some of us olds are already having Julius Hoffman flashbacks.

The three white men who killed Ahmaud Arbery will be judged by a jury of eleven white peers and one Black person.  I've never been to Glynn County but I'm pretty sure the ethnic distribution is a little more even than that.  Apparently it was vital to pick the jury in one day.  It's football season.

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers complain she is being treated worse than Hannibal Lecter as she awaits trial.  No hand truck or hockey mask, but she is body-searched and shackled before trips to court.  She is also under constant surveillance so she doesn't die like her one-time partner Jeffrey Epstein.  She should be released on bond despite fleeing the last time.

This is not Ghislaine Maxwell.  This is Susan McDougall refusing to testify against Bill Clinton in the Whitewater Witch Hunt.   I couldn't find any pictures of Suffragists being force-fed in prison.

Samuel Alito knows what's wrong with New York:  Not enough guns.  The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, wherein a bunch of gun huckleberries want the state's restrictive laws loosened up so people can pack heat in dangerous places like (dramatic chords) THE SUBWAY.  Sammy's all in because he knows the scary people ride the trains late at night to and from their crimes jobs.  Also he's seen all the Death Wish movies and believes they are documentaries.  Massachusetts has even tougher gun laws than New York and Boston has a subway so they're probably in his sights, so to speak.

Multinational corporations that pay badly and discourage unions are having trouble finding workers.  Also, rain is wet.  Rather than address these complaints, Republicans are determined to allow companies like McDonald's to hire kids as young as fourteen.  They've already passed such laws in Wisconsin, Ohio and Arkansas.  (In the last, kids get a paid hour to do homework.)  Not all is lost -- they'll be cleaning grease traps, not chimneys.  For now.

Remember Philando Castile?  So many people have died as a result of "traffic stops" that Bryan Gray decided he would be better off jumping off the Edison Bridge in Fort Myers, Florida.  He was pulled out and arrested for grand theft auto, but at least he's alive.

Wampanoag means "People of the First Light" and the Wampanoag who still live in Massachusetts are not looking forward to this, the 400th anniversary of the "first Thanksgiving."  The white eyes love those centenary numbers but they have no interest in getting the facts straight.  1621 and what came after is kind of an appetite killer.  For instance Tisquantum -- "Squanto" -- was one of America's first slaves.  Bon appetit.