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We must be taking on water.  Paul Manafort was caught trying to sneak off to Dubai today on a revoked passport (I seem to recall he owns several).  Evan Neumann was luckier:  the Trump insurrection veteran has been granted asylum in Belarus as a "political prisoner," the kind that commits assault and violent trespass.  Has he compared himself to Rosa Parks yet?  

Fashion arbiter Peter Schiff has a podcast where he whines about being "one of the most hated men on the planet right now.  In fact I may be number two just behind Vladimir Putin himself."  That's putting on airs.  He's just a manicured idiot who wants the president of Ukraine to "put on something nicer" to address Congress.  Out of respect.

Let's talk about that Congress, specifically the Republicans who infest its Senate Judiciary Committee.  If Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is enduring their ranting, hectoring, interrupting and whitemansplaining without pharmaceutical support, she shouldn't be on the Supreme Court.  She should be in charge of the entire planet and whatever fuckery Elon Musk has in mind for the moon.  Not once has she cried (Kavanaugh), simpered (Barrett) or muttered about a "high tech lynching" (Thomas), which is basically what's happening.  Time limits?  They don't respect no time limits.  Strom Thurmond would have been more civil than his successor, who flounced back in to free-associate about child pornography, while Ted Cruz applied his sledgehammer wit to kindergarten books and/or critical race theory.  Proposed definition of a racist:  Anyone who didn't want to vomit.

It's not just the old Confederacy.  Mike Braun (R-IN) was tricked by a clever reporter into saying the Supreme Court should not have ruled in Loving v. Virginia that state law forbidding interracial marriage is unconstitutional.  He changed his tune when some aide pointed out that it sounded a lot like "Dixie."

Speaking of which, Clarence Thomas is hospitalized and said to be on a ventilator.  With any luck we'll have to go through another of these shitfests in a few weeks.

MacKenzie Scott, whose 26-year marriage to Jeff Bezos netted her $62.2 billion, has donated $275 million of it to Planned Parenthood.  I expect her to begin taking some of the abuse normally directed at George Soros.

It is a far, far better use of the money than buying a non-existent artwork by Yves Klein, the first artist to realize that most collectors are morons.

Sarah Palin has been busy, still pursuing her hopeless defamation suit against the New York Times while threatening to run for the seat vacated by Rep. Don Young.  But who's thinning the moose population?

This is a line of Muscovites queueing for bread in 1992.  The Guardian is wryly amused that sanctions have them queueing for sugar in 2022.  But only months ago Americans were hording toilet paper and fighting over bottled water, and as for gas...nothing is certain, is it?