When 9/11 happened, we cats decided that the only person in America who was happy about it was Congressman Gary Condit. It forced his scandal about the murdered Chandra Levy off the front page.
Now, everybody who's ever had anything to do with blackface-in-yearbooks must be mighty relieved that Jeff Bezos has just blown up the National Enquirer. (Except, of course, for Justin Fairfax. We cats may have jumped the gun in our assessment of Fairfax's ability to take the reins in Virginia.)
Well, anyway: What's a blogger to do, when faced with such competing, screaming headlines? Go with the blackface, or the blackmail? Or go with SCOTUS blocking the Louisiana abortion law, and Brett Kavanaugh's clear signal that he intends to be the Destroyer of Roe? Or, should we go with the other SCOTUS decision, disallowing a death row inmate's final request for an imam to counsel him at his death? Jeez, the news is either head-spinning (Roberts sides with Court liberals) or depressing (religious freedom means nothing in America).
We'll go out on a limb and predict that the Bezos/National Enquirer story will be the biggest bombshell of them all. So much so that we're already casting actors to play Bezos in the Trump-Russia-Saudi movie (Stanley Tucci has the inside track).
In the meantime, we salute former Congressman John Dingell, who crossed the Rainbow Bridge yesterday and who penned an interesting note to America before he left. Best lines: "In democratic government, elected officials do not have power. They hold power — in trust for the people who elected them. If they misuse or abuse that public trust, it is quite properly revoked (the quicker the better)."
Pretty swell— although not quite as great as Jack Layton's farewell to Canadians in 2011. (But Jack raised the bar pretty high.) What we'll really miss are Dingell's hilarious tweets. Godspeed, Twitter ninja Dingell, and may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. We cats PURR.
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