I just report 'em

 

Using his new identity as "Brendan Fraser," George Santos accepts a Golden Globe award.

Lauren, dear, the woke liberal metal detectors have been gone for two weeks.  Why weren't you locked and loaded when Marjorie Taylor Greene came out of the bathroom stall and "questioned your loyalty" to Kevin McCarthy?  You could have done this country a great service and tested the limits of Congressional immunity to criminal prosecution.  But you ran away like a little Democrat.  I for one am ashamed.  Is it possible that you're not familiar with these?

(By the way, did you really take "millions of dollars" from McCarthy?  How much did he spend to get this job?)

Instead, Margie's emitting tweets like "Vengeance is mine declares the Lord.  God will not let evil go unpunished.  The @HouseGOP must do what is right for the American people and no longer serve the Uniparty and the Globalist agenda.  America First! [flag emoji]"  I know "globalist" means "Jews" -- pretty bold quoting their own book against them -- but I haven't a clue about "Uniparty."  It's a good thing she's seen the light on QAnon or she'd sound really bonkers.

Speaking of disloyalty, Trump gave an interview and, inevitably, it came up.  Now he's accusing the evangelicals of turning against him.  Apparently some of them want to hitch their wagon to Ron DeSantis, who they consider just as medieval but more electable.  "There's great disloyalty in the world of politics and that's a sign of disloyalty."  And after his three stooges put women in their place by overturning Roe!  If I could be bothered to look it up I'd quote Shakespeare's Richard II wailing that he's been the victim of worse betrayal than Jesus.  It's pretty funny.

Solomon Pena (R-Jailhouse) failed to get elected to the New Mexico legislature, which can only be the result of RIGGED!  So he recruited some friends and they've been drive-by shooting at the houses of Democratic office holders.  Allegedly.  No one was injured but state Senator Linda Lopez reported that three bullets passed through the bedroom of her ten-year-old daughter.  While she slept.

Wait, don't go.  The rest of the world is just as screwed up.

For two decades Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been subjecting a select group of women to rape and abuse while the Met (the UK police) "ignored eight warnings" about his activities.  In fact they promoted him to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection command, which allowed him to carry a gun -- much better for intimidating victims than handcuffs and a warrant card.  "I can kill you without leaving any evidence," he told one, and threatened to plant drugs on another.  "Bastard Dave," as his mates call him, has pleaded guilty to 49 charges.  Sir Mark Rowley, the new Met commissioner, said, "He should not have been a police officer."  Ya think, Mark?

Of course the misogyny is not confined to the filth.  A month after the column where he described a dream of Meghan Markle being marched naked through the streets and pelted with shit, Jeremy Clarkson decided to apologize.  Amazon's decision to cancel more episodes of Clarkson's Farm and The Grand Tour probably had nothing to do with it.  And now -- surprise! -- he's going with the Roseanne Barr defense, prescription drugs.  Clarkson has been taking the diabetes drug Ozempic as a preventative and for weight loss.  In a column for the Sunday Times he acknowledged eating and drinking too much but, you know, this is easier.  Side effects do not include racism and misogyny.  He's always been a prick.

Moving on to Italy, the National Museum of Cinema presented its lifetime achievement award (the Stella della Mole) to Kevin Spacey.  Vittorio Sgarbi, undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture, said, "Tonight we're witnessing Kevin Spacey's comeback," and the actor thanked the museum for having "the courage, the balls to invite me."  In June Spacey goes on trial in the UK for a variety of sexual offenses. 

For the first time since 1961 China reports a decline in population.  They expect further shrinkage due to the lingering effects of the one-child policy and successive mutations of the coronavirus.  The head of the National Bureau of Statistics says labor still exceeds demand but the future is uncertain.  Maybe this is why they want to acquire the 23.5 million people who live in Taiwan.

On Martin Luther King Day Boston unveiled "The Embrace," a 22-foot bronze depicting King and his wife Coretta Scott King embracing when he learned of winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.  Or so says the artist Hank Willis Thomas.  Others are not so sure, including Mrs. King's cousin Seneca Scott, who called it "a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis...a masturbatory metal homage."  I don't know much about art but I know...well, you tell me.

Call me old-fashioned but I think people will still prefer the St. Gaudens on Boston Common...

...in spite of the angel whose crotch rests on Colonel Shaw's head.

I was reminded of the Statue of Liberty's arm sitting in Madison Square Park for six years, waiting for the US to raise the money for a pedestal.