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Dr. Anthony Fauci on attending the Kentucky Derby during a pandemic

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I had a nice radio chat with America’s top infectious disease researcher Dr. Anthony Fauci. We discussed how to safely attend the Kentucky Derby during the coronavirus pandemic. We also dug into the challenges facing leaders during an anti-authority and anti-science period in our culture. And what about football!

The White House staff gave me 7 minutes with Dr. Fauci so we crammed as much info in as we could.

Shooters, looters, rioters, and arsonists have used Louisville as an amusement park.

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Legitimate protests have continued for months in Louisville and around the world. Conscientious people have been calling attention to police killings of citizens, many of whom are African Americans.

Good for the protesters for keeping alive the names of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and so many other victims of police misconduct or miscalculation. The Black Lives Matter movement is the most important cultural voice in 2020.

99% of the violence in America has nothing to do with police.

Nonetheless, police brutality needs to be rooted out by the intense attention it is drawing in 2020.

Just as a pickpocket needs a crowd to create diversion, nefarious shooters, looters, rioters, arsonists, and physical abusers have used the cover of noble BLM protests to mask their criminal activity.

Police want to protect the entire community, including the peaceful protesters. But they are limited in how they can respond to felonious agitators who want to take things into violent territories.

Louisville officials have essentially shrugged at the criminals and accepted their behavior as an unfortunate addition to peaceful protests.

LMPD has arrested around 500 people for various crimes but almost none of the perpetrators are encumbered because of free bail and legal representation provided by sympathetic people. Many of the arrestees are protesters refusing to move, but many others are people who have committed violent crimes in the midst of protests.

In 1968, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley did not mince words on the proper way to handle the criminals using protest crowds for cover.

This weekend, another group that purports to have the firepower to overcome local law enforcement is scheduled to set up a “formation” in Louisville. This will be yet another line to gauge how serious local leaders are about providing security and keeping the peace.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

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Courier Journal reporter Bailey Loosemore was embedded with Louisville protesters as they swarmed LMPD officers. The police were having a car removed from a no parking zone near the protest site that has seen one murder and multiple battles with police over the past two months.

The reporter’s caption is more supportive of the protester claims. First, the type of liquid is unknown. In prior protests, police have had urine and chemicals thrown at them. This video does not clarify the actual substance splashed toward several officers, not just one.

“People in the crowd say” sets up a hearsay problem. The same problem arises from the reporter’s secondary claim that “protesters say the car’s owner was never asked to move it.”

Who is the car owner? Why not get a direct quote from that person?

Read the comments for more backseat driving misdirection.

On a parallel front, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer began his one year term as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. His office posted a video touting leadership, listening, and learning.

Read the comments section to see how the Louisville protesters and #BlackLivesMatter constituents aren’t having any of what the mayor is serving.

Black voices on Black issues; my job is to listen without comment

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Death by a thousand edit cuts

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Activist journalism is killing what our information disseminating forebears spent hundreds of years building. Thanks, partisan jackasses.

Also, the English language is under siege.

Those two, Kendrick. Those two.

Are there no editors in today’s world? Have we completely surrendered to cost cutting management?

Yes.

Here’s a promising story. The BLUE ANGELS are here! Happy 4th of July, America!

Bless me, Schnorrer

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As a Catholic, I found this incredible scene from The Sopranos completely spot on. In the 1970s and 80s, our family home was a regular stop for various priests and other religious leaders looking for a meal or adult beverages.

The Sopranos scene above is an uncomfortable reality showing the freeloading priest Father Phil being called out by Carmela for manipulating “spiritually thirsty” women.

The Catholic church limits women to roles lesser than priests and therefore keeps them locked in a spiritually thirsting state.

Bravo to the script writers for a searing look at reality.

Now enjoy more treats from the brilliant Sopranos series, one of the greatest stories in American television history.

Matt Damon can’t pronounce Louisville

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Matt Damon can’t commit to a sensible pronunciation of Louisville. On 30 Rock, no one on the production team reshot this scene where Damon says LOO-uh-ville.

Hillbillies say LOO-uh-vul.

People with self respect say LOUIE-ville.

The city is named after King Louis XI. There is no King LOO-uh.

Ville is vill. Villanova. Villain. The Ville.

Stop being a poser. If you can muster the energy to correctly pronounce Taylorsville Road and Shelbyville Road then work a little harder to say Louisville with a shred of self respect.

And now here are some bloopers from Between Two Ferns. Good night. Let yourself out.