Rage, rage against the dying

 As a million people flee with suitcases and anxious-looking children, I keep thinking there is something I should do.  Money, of course -- Chef Andres got a big pile of money from Jeff Bezos last year so World Central Kitchen probably doesn't need my fifty dollars as urgently as Doctors Without Borders or International Rescue Committee.  Then what?  Rude nicknames for Putin?  Sign a petition?  Or just turn away from the smoking ruins and vent my anger on some domestic horrors?  Venting is pretty much why I'm here.  

First of all, I've sworn off NBC after Lester Holt's free advertising for I Jumped Before I Was Pushed or whatever Bill Barr's ass-covering exercise is called.  Nightly News barely covers the news anyway without wasting time on this "exclusive."  The last fifteen minutes is pill commercials and heartwarming junk and now I will spare myself the whole thing.  Not that The Norah O'Donnell Show is much of an improvement.

Brett Hankinson did the crying bit and was acquitted on all counts for his role in the death of Breonna Taylor, which is fair since he didn't kill her.  It was determined that his bullets passed through her apartment and into that of the people next door, which the Louisville DA decided was "wanton endangerment."  Now I suppose he'll want his police job back.  Taylor is still dead and nobody has been held responsible.

It was a matter of time.  Baby Tuckoo not only has trouble pronouncing Ketanji Brown Jackson's name (it's a tongue-twister like "Kamala") but he demands to see her LSAT scores.  I don't think this is necessarily a bad idea, if you separate it from his trademark racism and misogyny -- I'd like to see Brett Kavanaugh's scores now that we know he spent much of his college years shitfaced.  I would also like to know who took Clarence Thomas's bar exam.  Do I hear a can of worms being opened?

Employing the royal "we," Tuckoo also admitted that he was wrong about Russia and it's not his fault:  "We assumed that if things were dire, serious people would be involved in fixing them.  But...we saw Kamala Harris involved and that reassured us."  See, because she's a...   

Also a matter of time:  Having hired a surgeon general who won't put on a mask, Ron DeSantis was enraged to visit the University of South Florida and find a bunch of kids defiantly masked.  There is delightful video of this would-be presidential candidate berating teenagers for being more responsible than he is.  USF can expect a cut in its funding, the hissy-fit being a Republican specialty.

Maria Bartiromo -- oh, Christ, do I have to type that name again? -- snagged another of her interviews with the Perpetual President and he confidently predicted that China will attack Taiwan any minute.  Because "President Xi happens to be a man with a high intelligence level" and knows the "stupid" American leadership won't do anything.  But how does Xi feel about having a moron praise his intelligence?  Insulted or amused?

The economy added 678,000 jobs in February and Joe Biden's approval rating jumped eight points after the State of the Union speech.  (Thanks, Greene and Boebert!)  Covid numbers continue to decline.  Expect Chuck Todd to explain how this is bad for the midterms.

I just heard about a movie where Robbie Coltrane plays Orson Welles.  Friday night decompression!