1) It is reported in the local paper and now on the internet that Missouri’s bone-head governor has officially pardoned Patricia and Mark McCloskey. Good ol’ Parsons, he said he would do it and he’s done it.

The McCloskey case went through so many changes of course and zig-zags that I’m not sure of what they were convicted. But it is clear that prosecuting them, a wrong-headed bid for popularity by St. Louis’ naive prosecutor, Kimberly Gardner, gave a prominence to disgraceful people and pointed up the inadequacy of our criminal code, namely that being stupid, self-aggrandizing, or otherwise anti-social is not a crime.

2) Ever more alarming information becomes known daily about the criminal Trump’s attempted coup d’état: his attempt to force the connivance of the Dept. of Justice, his confidence in co-conspirators among the Republicans in Congress, the instigation of insurrection by Trump and his collaborators, and the disinformation campaign now being conducted by these same collaborators. 

I think it’s time to stop calling these people “Trump loyalists,” “Trump supporters,” “Trump defenders,” etc., and name them for what they are: “pro-Trump fanatics,” “Trump addicts,” “criminal conspirators,” “anti-democratic revolutionaries,” “violent insurrectionists,” “betrayers of the Constitution,” and, yes, the good old “enemies of the people.”