Un-Presidented

 Gasps.  Outrage.  When Trump reported to Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya's courtroom yesterday his current lawyer responded to her inquiry, "President Trump is present."  To which she replied, "Good afternoon, Mr. Trump," because she has better manners than I do.  Well, you would have thought last May's coronation began with the words, "Yo, Charlie!"  Clearly the woman with the funny foreign name who was born in India like Kamala Harris's mom and probably knows her is BIASED!  More evidence that he can't get a fair trial in DC and deserves a change of venue.  Lighten up, King MAGAt, it's just an arraignment.

According to Kaitlan Collins on CNN this act of lese majeste was the "one thing that irked him particularly," since the help at his putt-putt facilities are still ordered to call him "Mr. President."  Or if they're Walt Nauta, "The Boss."  If the indictment assembled by "Deranged Jack Smith" leads to conviction on every count he's looking at decades of prison, but never challenge the delusion that he's still president.  Trump always focused on the important stuff:  The conspiracy to keep Melania off the cover of Vogue, the correct shade of gold for the Oval Office drapes, the record-breaking crowd at the inauguration.  Never mind.  He's the star of a Republican dinner/hate rally in Montgomery tonight, and it's sure to be...just like all the other threats & grievances events since 2015.

But life goes on.  Food Not Bombs has been providing food and water to homeless people in Houston, where it's 102F today, and the police are handing out tickets with the potential for $80,000 in fines.  The state took over Houston's public school system because majority-Black/Latino cities can't be trusted to run their own affairs.  Might want to review that whole Sermon on the Mount thing when you file into Joel Osteen's Christapalooza megachurch this Sunday.

Also in Texas, the Border Patrol discovered seven baby spider monkeys being smuggled in a backpack.  According to Margie Greene, this proves that hundreds of baby spider monkeys are successfully brought across the border every year.  When will Biden stop the primate invasion?

Anna Netrebko is suing the Metropolitan Opera for cancelling her contract because she refused to repudiate Putin.  Gotta say I'm with the singer on this one, and I've never been a fan.  But I'm old enough to remember the Boston Symphony dropping Vanessa Redgrave from a performance of Stravinsky's "Histoire du Soldat" because her support for the PLO upset some of their board members.  Punishing artists for their politics never redounds to an institution's glory.  Let Netrebko sing, and patrons can stay away if they think that will express support for Ukraine.  The Met relies on ticket sales; they'll get the message.

Last week it was malarial mosquitos and leprosy in Florida.  Now the Culex modestus mosquito has been found in Finland, the species which carries the West Nile virus.  An outbreak in Romania recently killed seventeen people.  Climatically speaking, there's not much difference between central Africa and northern Europe anymore.

Last March Justin Jones, Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson took part in a gun-control rally after the mass shooting at a Nashville school; Jones and Pearson were expelled from the Tennessee legislature.  This week they were voted back in.  Want to keep paying for special elections, fiscal "conservatives"?

Trump's favorite judge and great patriot Aileen Cannon made fundamental procedural errors in the case of a man accused of running a website with images of child sex abuse, according to an analysis of the trial transcript.  He appoints only the best people.

Last week it was the surfing sea otter in California.  Now we hear that river otters are attacking people on the Jefferson River in Montana.  It's the end.  Of something.