PATTON SAID THAT SOLDIERS WHO WON’T F*CK WON’T FIGHT. I DON’T KNOW WHAT HE WOULD HAVE SAID ABOUT SOLDIERS WHO WON’T DRINK BEER. BREAKING NEWS: Infantryman Drank Beer. “Pete Hegseth is being Kavanaughed. And the only people dumb enough to fall for it are Republican senators.”

To be fair, some of them are pretty dumb.

WOEING: Boeing plea deal related to Max crashes rejected by judge. “[Judge] O’Connor had problems with the idea that the Justice Department, not the court, would have approval over the selection of the monitor and how Boeing had performed under an earlier settlement with the Justice Department in January 2021 over the same charges. That agreement had deferred prosecution until the safety issues were again raised by a door plug blowing off a 737 Max plane flown by Alaska Airlines in January.”

I’d have problems with today’s Justice Department, too.

JOHN LUCAS: The Daniel Penny Case — Two Contrasting Timelines: When lives are at risk decisive action is a must. And it must come quickly. “Does anyone remember the story of Kitty Genovese? In March 1964 a Kitty Genovese was murdered in Queens, New York. She had been raped and stabbed at least 13 times. The assault lasted approximately a half-hour. Two weeks later The New York Times ran a front-page article that reported that numerous people had heard her screams and watched the attack but did nothing to aid her.”

I COULDN’T HAVE RANTED BETTER MYSELF:  Wrong Answers.

GO READ. YES, I WENT LONG, BUT IT MATTERS:  For The Future.

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want to be happy.