Some days...

...I just report the news.  

"He'll maybe be the best person to have.  I mean, how mad can you get at Joe Biden?"

It's not a thundering endorsement but it makes a pretty good campaign slogan coming from Lindsey Graham.  And oh lordy, there is tape.  CNN played it today in connection with This Will Not Pass:  Trump, Biden and the Battle for America's Future by Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.  They caught up with Graham when he was still shaken by the January 6, 2021, coup attempt.  No matter how hard he back-pedals now, I think he's played his last round at Lago de Merde.  Trump is probably looking for another brain-damaged ex-football player to run against him in a primary.  Poor Lindsey.

The women's lacrosse team from Delaware State University was driving through Georgia when a Liberty County sheriff's deputy decided they looked like Freedom Riders from the 1960s.  He pulled the bus over for allegedly traveling in the wrong lane and then decided to search it for drugs, "rifling the suitcases of team members and using K-9 dogs."  No drugs were found and now people are angry, including Delaware Governor John Carney.  "Moments like these should be relegated to part of our country's complicated history," he said, revealing a worrying familiarity with critical race theory.  "The past is never dead.  It's not even past," said William Faulkner.  Let his estate sue me if they like.

Speaking of complicated histories, Lufthansa barred a group of Orthodox Jews from a Frankfurt-to-Budapest flight after some of them (not all) refused to wear masks.  The egregious case of profiling was denounced by Uwe Becker, antisemitism commissioner of the state of Hesse.  This is why they still need one.

Veterinarian/hog farmer Jim Pillen has won the Nebraska gubernatorial primary, defeating Trump-approved groper/grabber Charles Herbster and seven others.  Is the magic fading?

The UK will sign a security assurance declaration with Sweden promising assistance in the event of Russian attack.  Sweden managed to stay neutral through two world wars, but everything is up for grabs now.

Steve Daines (R-Idiot) can't understand why there are legal protections for the eggs of sea turtles and eagles but not for the eggs of humans.  And I can't explain it because my head just exploded.  But Daines is a bit of a RINO on this issue because his party is now worried about the rights of unfertilized eggs, too.  They're ready to overturn Griswold, the 1965 decision that married couples have a right to contraception.  Does anyone now doubt that this is a war on women, those over-educated nuisances who think they have a right to think?  Keep your eye on the Nineteenth Amendment.

How about some Esper-anto?  Trump hated General Stanley McChrystal and Admiral William McRaven so much, he wanted Esper to un-retire them so they could be court martialed for criticizing him.  What, not Colin Powell?  According to an anonymous source, the stable jenius wanted war with China so bad that he asked if the Chinese had attacked us with a "hurricane gun," which would constitute a hostile act.  Yet Rick Scott (R-Medicarefraud) says it's Biden who's "incoherent, incapacitated and confused." But Esper has been put on notice by Pigpen Bannon:  he will be subject to swift vengeance "when we come to power."  Scorched earth, man.  

Want to know about the South Carolina man who dropped dead while burying the woman he strangled?  Fair enough.

I saw this coming.  Jen Psaki tired of finding new ways to tell Pete Doocy he's an imbecile and quit.  Her replacement is her former deputy Karine Jean-Pierre.  Now:  what does Tucker Carlson hate?  Women, women who get prominent positions, LGBTQ people and Black people.  Jean-Pierre ticked all his boxes.  She was even born in Haiti, and you know what a free ride those people get.  As of today, Jean-Pierre has held more White House briefings than Stephanie Grisham.  

As the horror in Ukraine drags on we celebrate any positive news.  Like:

Millions of Russians are downloading virtual private networks (VPNs) which give them access to news sources blocked by the government.

Ukrainians are shooting down Russian SU-34 fighter planes with rudimentary GPS devices taped to the dashboard.  Do they still have Radio Shack in Russia?

Forget May 1.  Now it's Victory In Great Patriotic War For Mother Russia Day Parade!  That's where old Russia hands go to try to guess the future.  As the parade began Putin appeared to have trouble walking, coughed a lot and was bundled in a blanket.  

"In discrediting democratic elections in 2011 and 2012, Vladimir Putin took on the mantle of the heroic redeemer and placed his country on the horns of [Ivan] Ilyin's dilemma.  No one can change Russia for the better so long as he lives, and no one in Russia knows what will happen when he dies."  (Timothy Snyder, The  Road to Unfreedom, 2018)

Sergei Lavrov thinks he knows.  A lot of people thought Epicenter would win the Derby, too.