I can't believe it's not Lurpak

 This is why I read the Independent -- and not, like most people, for its exhaustive coverage of Love Island:

"Shoppers have reacted with shock and anger after social media posts show tubs of Lurpak butter for sale at inflated prices, including a tub on sale in Sainsbury's for seven pounds twenty-five."  

Lurpak, I discovered after some digging, is a Danish product, a type of salted butter enormously popular in Britain.  Why it should be singled out when groceries in general, petrol, gas and electricity are at their highest level since 2009 I don't know, but people are losing their minds.  Buried halfway-down is this laconic sentence:  "Economists from the LSE Centre for Performance found that the UK's departure from the EU caused a six percent increase in British food prices."  You Brexit, you buy it, and you pay more for it.  If a Yank wanted some Lurpak, Amazon can hook you up, only $34.99 for an eight-ounce package.  Pass.

Elsewhere in today's paper Sean O'Grady has another of those "it's all up with Boris Johnson" pieces, following the resignation of Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid, the health secretary.  "The albino greased piglet is well and truly stuck, an apple firmly rammed in his gob."  Not a fan, Sean?  The fall of Boris has been promised as often as the indictment of Trump.  I'll wait for the official announcement.

The world is transfixed by the American custom of celebrating holidays with mass murder.  Robert E. Crimo III was arrested as a "person of interest" and master of disguise.  Pictures show him attending a Trump rally as Waldo (of "Where's Waldo" fame) and leaving the scene in drag after the shooting.  If you missed his performance(s) as Awake the Rapper you're too late:  YouTube has cancelled him.  Rabbi Yosef Schanowitz reports that Crimo tried to enter a Chabad synagogue in Highland Park last April during Passover and was shown out by their security guard.  He was arrested without incident yesterday in marked contrast to Jayland Walker in Akron.  A seventh victim died today and Joe Biden ordered flags lowered to half-staff.  May as well keep them there.

Empty Greene has already declared that the assault-weapon attack on a parade in a heavily Jewish suburb of Chicago was caused by Crimo's drug use.  She knows this because...she knows this.  Anyone who disagrees is a tool of Big Pharma.  End of discussion, baby-eating communists!  

More than a million people have signed an online petition calling for the impeachment of Clarence Thomas.  I didn't sign because online petitions are not worth the pixels they're printed in, but it's good to know disgust with him is this widespread.  For years Thomas sat silently in the enormous shadow of Antonin Scalia.  Once he asked a question during oral arguments and it made the news.  Now he won't shut up, promising to destroy Obergefell (same sex marriage) and Griswold (birth control) next, when not colluding with the missus to overthrow the government.  Chairman Biden and the rest of the Judiciary Committee should have listened to Anita Hill.

"The weather was beautiful, the concert was beautiful, but we live in America and we have the Second Amendment and we have the Supreme Court of the United States telling everybody they can carry a gun wherever they want."  Mayor Jim Kenney spoke for millions when describing Philadelphia's July 4 fireworks display, aborted (if I may use the term) when shots were fired and slightly wounded two police officers.  Similar incidents of panic occurred in Orlando and Harrisburg without any actual gunfire.  If running for your life becomes an Olympic event, I expect to see three Americans on the medal platform.  

Last week Adam Kinzinger shared a letter his wife received threatening her and their infant son.  But most Trumpanzees can't write, so Kinzinger had his poor interns put together a compilation of phone calls to share with the rest of us.  Horror movie stuff, now including his mother.  Sample:  "Kinzinger should suffer a horrible death if it's god's will."  She seems friendly.  With the Capitol police tracking thousands of these things, it's time for Homeland Security to get involved.

"The only reason you're celebrating Independence Day is because citizens were armed," the NRA posted Monday.  If we were still capable of appreciating irony we would need Thorazine and a nap.  I merely note than Robert Crimo purchased his military weapon legally, like all the rest.

"Fight on, America, Fight on!  (Oh, I'm sorry.  By using the word FIGHT they will say I'm inciting an insurrection.  Apologies!")  Yes, Trump spent the holiday furiously and incoherently typing abuse of "the Unselect Committee of political Thugs" and challenging them to go after "the people who have been rioting, burning down cities, leading the massive crime wave & killing many all over the U.S., including drug & human traffickers."  He does not specify which cities are in flames, nor why a committee charged with investigating his treason should also look into drug gangs, shark attacks or the high price of butter.  He seems even more rattled now that Fulton County DA Fani Willis has served subpoenas on John Eastman, Lindsey Graham and Rudolph Giuliani.  (And Kinzinger thinks he's getting threats.)

  

 Tick tock, motherfucker.