And in sports...

 The World Series is over.  The Texas Rangers won.  Hardly anyone watched the games.  If you paid to advertise on the uniforms, tough.  No refunds.

Boutique Holocaust denial?  Claiming that CNN is full of "self-hating Jews" like Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer, Fox's Mark Levin has decided that Blitzer's parents are not really Holocaust survivors whose own parents were murdered in Poland.  Backing up slightly, he allows as how Blitzer's family "comes out of that background" but the CNN anchor has been seduced by the "very attractive" ideology of the left.  At least he hasn't demanded that Blitzer produce their death certificates.  Tapper's crime was apparently to show interest in the deaths of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, or as Rep. Mast would say, "'innocent' Nazis."

An employee of the Department of Homeland Security was suspended for social media posts criticizing Israel after the Hamas attacks, but for "Run Like Hell" Hawley that was enough to tag the whole department as antisemitic.  He stupidly said -- shouted -- as much at Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Tuesday hearing.  Mayorkas heatedly denied that one person was representative of the 260,000 who work for DHS, adding for good measure, "Perhaps he does not know that I am the child of a Holocaust survivor...my mother lost almost all of her family at the hands of the Nazis."  Of course, this statement has not been vetted by Mark Levin.  I assume Hawley's intern didn't do enough research, or he assumed that no one named Alejandro could possibly be Jewish.  Nice work, Josh.  

With Jewish targets getting scarce, Jesse Watters reached back to a children's holiday with distant pagan roots to rage about fathers who leave work early to take their kids for trick-or-treat.  "It's still light out!" he complained.  How can you get ahead in capitalism if you put the safety of your children ahead of work?  More evidence of the pussification of American men.  Clearly this is a job for mothers, unless they also have jobs or they're at a meeting of Moms for Liberty.  Or cleaning the house.

George Santos thought it would be a good idea to write a letter to Jamie Raskin thanking him for his vote against expulsion.  Raskin corrected the spelling and syntax but refrained from grading it B-.  He also suggested that Santos apologize to the people he's supposed to represent and think seriously about resignation.  Deaf ears, I'm afraid.

The right is harder on its own than anyone else, which is something we could work on over the next year.  Mayor "Bubba" Copeland of Smiths Station, Alabama, and Baptist pastor, killed himself after Jeff Poor of 1819 News revealed that he was a cross-dresser and writer of online "pornography."  (1819 is so called for the year of Alabama's founding, not the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, England.  This blog teaches you stuff.)  Poor worked for Breitbart before branching out on his own gossip rag.

The Washington Post reports on another attempt to censor a canonical book.  Black students at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Washington, are offended by To Kill a Mockingbird's racist language and overall white-savior plot.  They and their advisers say it "presents a barrier to understanding and celebrating an authentic Black point of view in Civil Rights era literature."  I always found it overrated and sentimental, and the movie even worse.  Harper Lee was adamant that civil rights was moving "too fast" before white people were ready to give up their centuries-long privilege, so it's hard to argue with the kids.  But in this climate I can't support censorship in any form.  Teach it as a glimpse into the minds of well-meaning white people like Lee, who was at least clear-minded in seeing that Tom Robinson would be convicted no matter what Atticus Finch did.