What is going on here, exactly?

 We begin in Idaho, a/k/a Florida with mountains.  Majorjon Kaylor says that 18-year-old Devin Smith was masturbating through a ground-floor window in front of Kaylor's wife and daughters.  That's why he shot Smith, his grandfather Kenneth Guardipee, his mother Kenna Guardipee, and her other son, sixteen-year-old Aiken Smith.  Devin is the recent graduate.

All four are dead.

The Titanic tourists whose disappearance has riveted the media's attention all week are dead, according to the US Coast Guard, following the implosion of their experimental submersible.  Junior Trump should have waited a few hours before going public with his conspiracy theory.  "Literally everything I've seen about this missing submarine is insane and sketchy AF...almost none of it makes any sense whatsoever.  How long till we find other external factors making it even more so???"  In a second Troof Social he singled out "lefties" for mocking his coke-fueled incoherence.  Coming soon:  At least three House committees "investigating" the corrupt Biden Coast Guard's refusal to save the five men because they're rich.

Teachers, librarians, poll workers, health care workers...the weatherman?  When the Trumpanzees don't agree with you, they skip over the letters and get right to the vile, violent threats against you, your family and your pets.  That's what happened to Chris Gloninger, meteorologist at KCCI-TV in Des Moines.  Gloninger was not shy about linking the local forecast to global climate change and soon began getting complaints about his "liberal conspiracy theories" and demands for his home address.  (One idiot used his own name, resulting in a fairly small fine.)  Gloninger, who says the stress has given him PTSD, is getting out of broadcasting altogether.  Is this the state Meredith Willson celebrated in The Music Man?

Boebert and Greene continue to scrap over whose baseless, doomed articles of impeachment against Joe Biden will be heard first, with the gentlelady from Georgia calling the gentlelady from Colorado "a little bitch."  It was delicious, and for dessert Nancy Pelosi took the mic and observed of Republicans, "You look miserable."  As the Republicans settled for censuring Adam Schiff, Pelosi accused them of turning the House into "a puppet show."  Let's hope the two gentleladies go full-on Punch and Judy.

"We live in complicated times and we need common sense."  Who said it?  Practically anyone from Thomas Paine onward, but today it was Will Hurd announcing that he's seeking the (all together now) Republican presidential nomination.  This brings the field to about thirty, with primary voters sighing, "Finally someone I can support!  He was so good in Broadcast News!"  Unfortunately this isn't William Hurt, who died last year, but the former Texas representative who decided he had no future once he criticized Trump.  He was right.  

If you're still freaking out about gas stoves, stop.  That was last month.  The new Kulturkampf battlefield is AM radios.  Manufacturers want to stop putting them in new electric cars because the sound is crap.  The right is sure this is a plot to deprive them of their phone-in hate shows.  Looks like an ethical dilemma for Elon Musk.  Otherwise, who cares?  Well, local broadcasters, for one group, and people who rely on it for emergency information.  But sure, Ted, go right for the political conspiracy theorizing.  Otherwise we might forget why Texas keeps electing you.