Valentine's Day Near-Massacre

 As the dust from the BIG GAME settles, certain events get elbowed aside.  They shouldn't.  Like this disturbing story from Louisville, where an "individual" walked into the office of mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg this morning and fired five shots, one of which struck his clothing.  A Republican opponent, Bill Dieruf, said, "Our prayers go out to Democratic mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg and his family and staff," demonstrating that they can use the adjectival form when they want to.

Say you're an asshole who wants to cause havoc for your neighbors, but you lack the skills for an old-fashioned gender-reveal pipe bomb.  For you they make Mylar balloons, especially popular in southern California where they tangle in power lines and make them short out or even catch fire.  What better way to say "I love you, be my Valentine, I think something just exploded"?

"Sexual anarchy" at the half-time show?  This happens every time I fail to watch, which is every year since the Vince Lombardi Trophy was first presented to Vince Lombardi (1946?).  Apparently Eminem, or Marshall Mathers III as I call him, took a knee.  He's 49, did he need help getting up?

"Inflation Falls Hardest On Low-Income Americans" -- that's the kind of eye-opener I read the Washington Post for.  Democracy dies in derpness.

You just wouldn't expect a racist incident at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, but that's what the Howard University women's lacrosse team experienced yesterday, "a bunch of boys hurling obscene and threatening insults."  Back in Washington, the campus locked down in response to the fourth bomb threat this year.  Maybe things will quiet down after Black History Month ends.

Sexual anarchy on "Friends"?  I never watched it, but the 1994-2004 sitcom has finally reached People's TV, sort of.  References to one character's ex-wife, evidently a lesbian, have been purged, and the phrase "multiple orgasms" became "endless gossip."  All right, everyone, point and laugh at the Chinese government.  (Not the people, they're annoyed by this silliness.)

Guest editorial from Charles P. Pierce:  "The people of Ukraine want to govern themselves...That's all our revolution was about, too.  We've lost sight of that, and largely abandoned the concept over here.  No wonder our response to the most American principle is so muddled elsewhere."  It explains everything, including the cheerleading for Putin from the likes of Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Tucker Carlson.  Eighty years ago this kind of thing was personified by Charles Lindbergh, who was at least a courageous aviator.  What have these slobs done?