Or, time to go to bed early. The world is too much with me, and it’s an insane, evil, hallucinatory one, like a bad acid trip.
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Item: American parents pimp their three-year-old daughters on a mainstream TV show. In one egregious case, for the “pro-life” movement, which has its own little-girl pageants planned.
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Item: (bears repeating) Baying American Republicans cheer for executions.
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Item: Toronto cops in the spotlight again, with a bit of racial harassment gone horribly wrong. The old “assault on police” rubbish is duly trotted out, but their victim, who allegedly delivered a right-hand blow to the chest of one of them, has been paralyzed in that arm since a stroke some time ago. Whoops.
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Art by Palestinian children: too dangerous to be permitted to be shown. The “new anti-Semitism” McCarthyites rush to shut down yet another art exhibit. Nothing new there. (Where are the Speech Warriors™? I can’t hear you!)
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Tony Blair displays his utter lunacy. People died. He’s now a peace envoy to the Middle East.
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An American porn actress and body-builder credits neo-Nazism for turning her life around. I’m relieved to hear that her daytime profession is the embalming of “dead people.” These days, one takes nothing for granted.
Night, all, and sweet dreams.