In the details

 Is it "fell between the cracks"?  That feels wrong.  Anyway, in a week full of minor earthquake damage and hot eclipse anticipation (yawn) some stories were left insufficiently picked over.

A Trump-loving QAnon adherent crashed his SUV into an FBI office.  If that sounds vaguely familiar, this happened in Atlanta, not Cincinnati, and the driver is still alive.  Ervin Lee Bolling was a submarine sonar technician in the Navy before losing his mind in 2017; by 2020 he was a full-time election denier.  

Dateline Holyoke, Massachusetts:  Former city councilman Wilmer Puello-Mota was about to go on trial in Rhode Island in January on child pornography charges when he decided he would rather join the Russian army.  In some circles this would be treated as an admission of guilt.

I hope Private Puello-Mota is having a better time than the Feenstra family of Saskatchewan, who fled to Nizhny-Novgorod because western Canada was too woke for them.  Surprisingly, Russia did not welcome them as an opportunity to make propaganda about Putin's paradise and now they're broke and want to come home.  Nobody told the Feenstras they would have to pass a Russian-language proficiency test to qualify for citizenship.  Probably something to check before purchasing ten plane tickets and selling the farm.

Actually I do not care if Private Kiddie Porn is enjoying himself or not.  Nor if Kristi Noem is still welcome (or at least tolerated) on tribal land in South Dakota.  Her Trump-like slanders about the Cheyenne River Sioux working with Mexican drug gangs got her banned from their Reservation, not that she probably noticed with her thriving career as a spokesperson for various products and services.

The investigation into the deaths of seven World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza is already over.  Israel has dismissed two scapegoats officers and "reprimanded" three others.  Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari promises it won't happen again.  Everything fine now?


Ksenia Karelina is her name, but I can't find anything else about her for the past month.  She was arrested in January while visiting family in Russia and faces life imprisonment for treason because she gave about fifty dollars to a Ukrainian medical charity.  Speculation is that Karelina and another Russian-American named Robert Woodland Romanov, also arrested in January, are chips Putin needs to play poker with the US for some Russians.  This is how gangsters and gangster states operate.  Maybe he wants Julian Assange, or one of his Smirnovs.  Let's offer Trump and a Republican senator to be named later.

Red states take it in turns to experience some sort of nervous breakdown, and last week was Louisiana's.  Because it's sports-related, you probably know that Governor Jeff Landry wants student athletes to lose their scholarships if they're not on the court during the national anthem, heads bowed, hands approximately over hearts and none of that woke kneeling.  The LSU women were in the locker room during this sacred time before their game against Iowa, which is doubtless why the Buckeyes won 94-87.  But wait, there's more:  Under the state's new criminal defamation law, you can be prosecuted for "exposing the memory of a deceased person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule."  That's pretty all-encompassing.  For example, Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans.  A lot of people have said hard things about him since 1889.  I'm willing to expose him to more hatred, contempt and ridicule if they need a test case.  Leave your number in the comments.

The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans filed bankruptcy in 2020 in response to hundreds of sexual-abuse lawsuits.  Next week we will find out if Father Lawrence Hecker must stand trial for aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, etc.  An entire archdiocese was proficient at delay, delay, delay long before Trump's first indictment.  Hecker, now 92, was first accused in 1975.  

Obligatory Trump story:  He's willing to debate, he told Hugh Hewitt, but only if Joe Biden takes a drug test at the weigh-in.  "I watched his State of the Union and he was all jacked up at the beginning.  By the end he was fading fast."  I guess we watched different speeches.  "Most of the time he looks like he's falling asleep," said Trump, who should stop listening to his own propaganda.  He's sure it's cocaine, which Biden evidently stores out in the open near the entrance used by tourists.  In short, there will be no debate because high-energy Donnie can barely remember what city he is in.

Which American university will be the first to break the six-figure barrier and charge $100,000 for a year?  The smart money is on Vanderbilt.







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