Midweek follies

 I'm not sure I can deal with dead nine-year-olds and Joe Biden's new interest in drilling up still more dinosaur juice.  We could all use a break.

Chris Christie thinks he has a shot at the presidency.  That's it.  That's the joke.  Failing that, he calls upon a hero to bell the cat, i.e., do to Trump what Christie did to Marco Rubio in 2016.  Remember that triumph?  

Woe is woke!  The novels of Agatha Christie are being trimmed of their "offensive" language about Gypsies, natives, and a Caribbean hotel worker's "lovely white teeth."  Hercule Poirot will continue to have an egg-shaped head and mangle English, no matter how much Belgians complain.  I read Christie for the sex scenes but most people are only interested in the plots and the staggering number of garden parties in St. Mary Mead.  

Superior, it's said, never gives up its dead but Lake Mead gave up half a dozen last summer during the prolonged drought.  One has now been identified as Donald Smith of Las Vegas, who drowned in 1974.  Thomas Erndt, who drowned in 2002, was previously identified.  A B-29 and two boats from the Second World War period also popped up.  People drink that water, you know.

Georgia is breathlessly awaiting Brian Kemp's signature on the "Stop Fani Willis From Persecuting Poor Donald Trump" bill, but Wayne Allyn Root can't wait.  The birther/crackpot has called on Republican DAs and AGs to "step up and indict all these dirty Democrat traitors," a list which includes Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bill AND Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Anthony Fauci, Nancy Pelosi, Hunter Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, Eric Holder and Mark Zuckerberg.  Trump happily spread it on Ministry of Truth Social.  It's not clear what Root wants them indicted for, or why Zuckerberg, but linear thinking has always been a problem for me.  I should just spiral like Paul the Cockroach.  Dr. Gosar has accused General Mark Milley of conspiring with China and Nancy Pelosi to overthrow Trump and promised to "investigate" the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.  He has already called him a traitor so -- did the investigation happen?  

His partner in psychosis from the other side of the country, Margie Greene, got a Twitter time-out at the worst possible time, as she was alerting America to the terrible trans revenge that began in Nashville.  "Why is Twitter whitewashing the 'Trans Day of Vengeance'?  A day after a mass murder of children by a trans shooter?"  At last we know what it takes to interest the AR-15 Lapel Pin Caucus in a school shooting.  The TDOV is absolutely a real thing, like the Rothschild space lasers.  Is!  Isisis!!

DA Alvin Bragg gave his grand jury a month off because they're just twenty-three New Yorkers with lives.  Who are probably getting death threats like him.

On a visit to Sydney, Barack Obama called out Rupert Murdoch by name (first name) for making people "angry and resentful" through "good old racism and xenophobia and sexism and homophobia."  He also attacked Putin's "ancient way of conceiving power" through violence, coercion and domination.  But according to the Guardian the real story was Aunty Joy Murphy, an Indigenous elder who was invited and then uninvited from welcoming Obama to Melbourne.  She was being "difficult" -- the 78-year-old leader of the Wurundjeri Nation asked for a gift to present to him according to cultural tradition, and for a support person to assist her.  Way to go, Melbourne.

"The trans movement is the mirror image of Christianity and therefore its natural enemy."  For two thousand years that was said of Jews.  Also, movement?  Anyway, that's Kiss-and-Make-Up Tuck making his audience angry and resentful about a fresh phantom threat.  I wouldn't bring it up but you know it will incite more violence (physical and legislative) against trans people.  To save Christianity, which is forever under existential threat from a world of enemies, just like Holy Russia.  Beagle Face's "reasoning" seems to be that when you change your sexual identity, or just cross-dress, you are rejecting god's amazing plan for your life.  He works alone, so there was nobody in the studio to ask about, say, cosmetic surgery, capped teeth, or even scalp-tightening like the botched mess on Trump's head.  I think the war on LGBTQ people is about to enter its Somme Offensive.

Hershel Grynszpan was living in Paris when his family, along with thousands of other Jews, were deported from Germany to the Polish border.  Pushed beyond endurance, he assassinated a minor official in the German embassy.  It was the pretext the Nazis needed for Kristallnacht.  

This got dark in a hurry.  Have a picture of a butterfly.

It came with the computer.

The Senate has repealed the 2003 Iraq War authorization.  The House wants to think about it some more.  

In other past-war news, King Charles is in Germany, where he will lay a wreath at the St. Nikolai memorial in Hamburg to victims of Allied air raids.  Perhaps one day the statue of Arthur "Bomber" Harris in Westminster will be removed like that of Robert E. Lee in Richmond.  Some people still think bombing will demoralize the enemy enough to win a war, although it never has.

"Coward" was Gavin Newsom's response when Squeaker McCarthy scuttled away from a reporter's question about the Nashville shooting.  Give him a break, governor, he hadn't been told what to say yet.

Margie's Twitter account is open for business again!