Hot, huh?

 Let's just get this out of the way:

Weekend mass shooting:  Greenwood Park Mall, Indianapolis

Suspect:  Jonathan Sapirman, 20

Materiel:  Sig Sauer Mode M400 5.56 caliber rifle; M&P 5.56 mm rifle; Glock 33 pistol; over 100 rounds of ammunition

Bought legally?  Looks like

Victims:  Three dead, two wounded

Motive:  Unknown, but all three fatalities were Latino

Outcome:  Sapirman killed by "22-year-old bystander with a long gun"

Luckily it was "Bring a long gun, get a free Slurpee" day at the mall.

On a related note, National Safety Shelters of Fort Pierce, Florida, has the solution to school shootings and climate change -- this safety pod promises to keep children safe from military-grade weapons and tornadoes.  

  

There may be resistance from older kids who have seen Sullivan's Travels.

Or The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Speaking of bridges, Rotterdam says it will most certainly not temporarily dismantle the Koningshaven Bridge so Jeff Bezos can sail his honking great yacht out, although Oceanco shipyard was happy to get the job of building it.  There was a lot of popular discontent when the bridge-altering scheme was announced.  If some additional Bezos bucks were to come Rotterdam's way, who knows?

Fox gargoyle Maria Bartiromo must have watched Cassidy Hutchinson testify about the ketchup-splattered walls and the backseat tantrums of the previous Commander in Chief and decided it was time for some damage control.  She invited mental health expert Ronny Jackson on to ask him "Who's running the White House right now?  Are they covering up for these mental issues?"  Jackson, who has never spent a minute with Joe Biden in his former capacity as a "medical doctor," was cagy:  "We don't know if it's Susan Rice or Ron Klain or if it's Joe Biden or who it is."  Trump's physician went on to display a curious degree of knowledge about "drugs that can increase your alertness and your memory...so I'm sure some of that's going on as well."  They didn't even have the grace to suggest that Jill Biden is examining state papers like Edith Wilson in 1919.  Just to prove how mentally healthy he is, Dr. Ronny topped off the day by posing with several of his favorite assault rifles and pledging, "I will NEVER give up my firearms."  All right, Ronny, calm down.  Do you have a Xanax in your jeans?

And the stable jenius has a new hobbyhorse:  the "very disloyal" PGA which sanctions golfers who participate in Saudi Arabia's new LIV tour.  Trump just loves startup ventures, especially when he and his incompetent son-in-law collect barrels of Saudi cash on the deal.  I am not sure why this makes the PGA "disloyal," but I understand why 9/11 families and relatives of Jamal Khashoggi are cool to all this wonderful new golfing.  Maybe it's because the 2022 PGA Championship was moved from Bedminster to someplace in Oklahoma.  (By the way, LIV is 54 in Roman numerals.  It represents the lowest score you can record if you birdie every hole on a par-72 course.  That's five minutes I won't get back.)