Destroyer of worlds

 School massacres have become so routine that they barely disturb the surface of what passes for news.  The most recent, in Oxford, Michigan (unless there was one today so far unreported), took four adolescent lives but we are not allowed to know the identity of the killer because he is only fifteen.  We are permitted to read his final Instagram post, however:  "Now I become death -- destroyer of worlds -- see you tomorrow Oxford," he wrote, quoting J. Robert Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita.  A reader.

Fellow Midwestern gun hero Kyle Rittenhouse continued his victory tour, telling Charlie Kirk he plans to destroy the AR-15 he used to bag a couple of "rioters."  He also complained about the prosecutor holding up the weapon during the trial:  "He was pointing the gun at the gallery...that's Gun Safety 101 -- loaded or unloaded, treat a gun like it's loaded."  Having left the Arizona State nursing program, perhaps he will become an instructor.  Or a greeter at Lauren Boebert's Ptomaine Ptake-out.  Those who have waited to send their love will be glad to know that Instagram and Facebook have lifted their ban on praising young Kyle, just in time for Christmas.

The FBI has released a report on Connor Betts, who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, back in 2019 (I didn't remember him, either).  It identifies something called "bystander fatigue," which roughly means his family and friends just got tired of his violent fantasies after ten years or so and stopped listening.  It was at that point that he picked up the AR-15, as popular in the Heartland as corn dogs at a county fair and even more deadly.

On a lighter note, Marcus Lamb "went home to be with the Lord this morning," tweeted Daystar Television Network "with a heavy heart."  I'm sensing confusion.  Lamb was the CEO of the Christian outfit, another vaccine-hater felled by covid.  Or as his son calls it, "a spiritual attack by the enemy."  Or as I call it, death by dumbness.  The family ask that you masturbate mentally pray for them.  

Dr. Jill Biden's holiday decor has moved her into the Kamala Harris (if not Anthony Fauci) class as a target of spitting rage, which is always funny.  Someone cobbled together a video of her reading to second graders yesterday with one of a child screaming "shut the fuck up" which has been floating around since 2019, a lot of work for an innocuous visit to an elementary school.  Attracted by the aroma of bullshit, Junior Trump then chimed in, "Anyone who ever criticized Melania's Christmas decorations needs to apologize right now."  If Daddy can't love him maybe Wicked Stepmother will.  No comment yet from the First Escort herself.  Maybe she's just relieved she doesn't have to think about "fooking Chreestmas."

Borders are slamming shut, international arrivals are being nasal-swabbed and everyone is on edge about the Omicron variant.  I'm no virologist, I only know what I read in the papers, but it seems to me that our tiresome friend coronavirus can mutate here as readily as in South Africa or anyplace else.  Why would anyone need to "bring it in"?   As long as millions of idiots refuse to take the most basic precautions for themselves and everyone else, the USA is Fantasy Island for the nasty little critters.  And speaking of heedless idiots, Mark Meadows has dropped a memoir.  It reveals that Trump tested positive for covid three days before debating Joe Biden.  He refused to postpone because he still fancies himself a debater; Stephen Robinson correctly calls it "biological warfare."  Needless to say, "FAKE NEWS!"  So even Meadows is occasionally accurate.  

All of this is covered by "allegedly."  Richard Lee Richards, 61, wanted a Walmart tool box badly enough to steal it and then brandish a knife at an employee as he exited in his motorized wheelchair.  Tucson police officer Ryan Remington told him to stop and then shot him nine times.  As Richards fell from the chair Remington tried to handcuff him, but he was dead.  And now, because there's video, the Tucson PD want to fire Remington.  Imagine.  How fast can those chairs go?  Allegedly.

  Lee Price got one of those $1.6 million covid relief loans and spent it on a Rolex, a Lamborghini, and a two thousand dollar visit to a Houston strip club, among others.  He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering and has been sentenced to nine years in prison.  He should have used the money to organize an attempt to overthrow the government.  None of those people will do more than a few months.

I love the Guardian.  Arwa Madhawi thinks the salvation of the world lies in having more women as leaders.  "All the 'feminine' traits that women have been told are weaknesses in the workforce (empathy, collaboration, altruism) are, in fact, strengths."  She has evidently been too busy to follow the Greene-Mace catfight or the Boebert Islamophobia fest, now with obscene death threats against Ilhan Omar, and even Rashida Tlaib, who was just sitting there being Muslim.  Maybe "empathy" means something different in the UK.  Like calling someone a cunt.  And speaking of cunts, wannabe Squeaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is clearly afraid of the raging harpies in his caucus.  Do you folks have the term "pussy-whipped," Ms. Madhawi?