This just in

Forty-three days into its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and countless atrocities, Russia has been suspended for three years from the United Nations Human Rights Council.  Another month and they're off the Secretary General's Christmas card list.

A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that people with guns in their homes are more likely to be shot to death.  Also, men who go to Chick-fil-A with guns stuck in their waistbands will at some point shoot their balls off.

A rabid animal which bit nine people on Capitol Hill has been euthanized.  Sadly, this did not create a vacancy in Georgia's Fourteenth District.

A prospective juror in the sentencing trial of Nikolas Cruz was excused after telling the judge, "I need to figure out something, I have my sugar daddy that I see every day."  Forget it, Jake, it's Florida.  (For those who have forgotten in the course of subsequent massacres, Cruz pleaded guilty to murdering seventeen people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.)

Cuban migrants are arriving at the southern border in the highest numbers since 1980.  They are receiving the preferential treatment denied to Haitians, Hondurans, Mexicans, etc. as always.  It remains to be seen if Greg Abbott will bus them to Washington with the rest of the undocumented.

Today is National Beer Day.  It marks the 1933 Cullen-Harrison Act which authorized the sale of 4% beer, but it only became a holiday in 2017.  It is also National Burrito Day and Coffee Cake Day, for those planning a festive lunch.

War-by-sanction has now reached Putin's daughters.  Although they seem to be the barely acknowledged offspring of his first marriage, Papa has helped the putas become extremely rich and now they will be dragged into his war crimes.  So sad.

"Secret service said I couldn't go.  I would have gone there in a minute," Trump told the Washington Post, blaming all the violence on Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Muriel Bowser.  Also, he doesn't remember getting "very many" phone calls, especially from frantic members of Congress under siege.  The mob is now "the largest crowd I've ever spoken to" (so much for Spicer's lies about the inauguration) although "the fake news don't want to show pictures."  (You're talking to the Washington Post, asshole, not the New York Post.)  "Other world leaders [than Viktor Orban] regularly call him because they like him so much, Trump claimed."  And as Willy Loman knew, there is nothing as important as being well-liked.  Interesting:  When Zelensky is mentioned the phrase "perfect phone call" still bubbles up to the top layer of industrial waste in his diseased brain.  Now he likes Zelensky.  He still compares the election he lost to somebody stealing diamonds from Tiffany.*  Oh and True the Vote will announce next week that they've found millions of illegal votes in Georgia.  Mark your calendar.

Rand Paul kept everybody waiting while he phoned his hairdresser or something, but the vote is finally over and Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Supreme Court justice.   She is not only superbly qualified, she deserves the job for enduring the racism, misogyny and lying stupidity of the Republiclowns without whining (Thomas) or crying (Kavanaugh).  Although Lindsey Graham's hissy-fits were entertaining.

Since WHAT IS A WOMAN has somehow emerged as a major battlefield in the culture war, some amusement can be found in the authoritative responses.  Josh Hawley tried "someone who has a uterus" and was stumped by a question about hysterectomy.  "I mean, a woman has a vagina, right?"  Margie Greene (R-Bronze Age), who called Justice Jackson "ignorant," came up with, "We came from Adam's rib.  God created us with his hands...We are the weaker sex but we are our partner's, our husband's wife."  Lindsey Graham came as close as he ever has with "The birds and the bees stuff -- it's been a while, but I think I remember the general gist of the differences."  I'll bet.  

 I’m not religious but I could accept the idea that Ariana DeBose is the work of a craftsman God. Marjorie Taylor Greene, however, is evidence that God stopped caring long ago and outsourced production to some shoddy factory that uses cut-rate parts. (Stephen Robinson)

    

Decide for yourself.

*The store, not his daughter.