Today in outrage

Twelve-year-old Tashawn Bernard was taking garbage to a dumpster behind his family's apartment complex in Lansing, Michigan, when a police officer approached him with an unholstered gun and handcuffed him.  Apparently he was dressed similarly to a suspect in some unspecified crime.  After talking to him the officer released him and he joined his father, who had come outside to see what was taking so long.  The family's lawyer says Tashawn is "traumatized" and no longer wants to go outside, but that's probably an excuse to avoid taking out the garbage.  Or seeing his friends.  Did I mention that he is twelve?

The Marion County Record, a small Kansas newspaper, was raided by police seeking the source of a leak about a local restaurant owner, Kari Newell, apparently from her vengeful ex-husband.  The leaker told the paper she was driving with a suspended license after a DUI arrest.  Newell says the intent was to cripple her business by getting her liquor license cancelled.  Judge Laura Viar authorized a search warrant and the town's police, all five of them, also raided the home of the publisher, where they seized a computer and a phone and photographed his bank records.  The raid so upset his 98-year-old mother that she collapsed and died yesterday.  

Ghent University in Belgium will offer a course in English literature that includes the work of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Swift -- Taylor Swift.  Is that outrageous?

If you think fascist Florida distorts history, that's nothing compared to Russia.  The official textbook for 17-year-olds calls Ukraine "a neo-Nazi state," Russia "a country of heroes," and blames the United States for the war ("special military operation").  Apparently someone expects it to go on for years.

The Ohio Clean Fund is a fake charity dreamed up by Isaiah Wartman, Michael Peppel and Luke Mahoney to raise money for the people affected by the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.  As part of a settlement with the Ohio attorney general, the three must pay $25,000 apiece in penalties and restitution.  Why is this scam different from other scams?  Because Wartman managed Marjorie Taylor Greene's 2020 campaign; before that he worked for Elise Stefanik.  Outrageous.  Not surprising.

"Ionia County is a farming county, and I know a lot of people in this county view children working, sometimes around dangerous machinery, as part of growing up," said Judge Ray Voet about a 17-year-old who lost a hand to a meat grinder at US Guys Processing in Saranac, Michigan.  He decided this warranted $1,143 for the young man and no punishment for the man who hired him.  By the way, other countries don't have elected judges.  Just saying.

Last year Marsha Blackburn, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley and fellow cultists were clamoring for US Attorney David Weiss to be named special prosecutor in the investigation of one-man crime-wave Hunter Biden.  Now that Merrick Garland has given them their wish they're outraged at the "new way to whitewash the Biden family corruption."  Sorry, guys, but Ken Starr is dead.

This is the grave of Ivana Trump.  It's hard to work up much outrage.  She knew what she was getting into.