I set about writing about the frightening event in Washington, DeeCee, involving fake news, a gun, pizza, a crazy dude, and totally innocent people.  

Honestly, I didn’t even know where to start. 

But Barb came to the rescue.  For many years Barb has been our foreign correspondent in The Washington place because she lives in the heart of the city.  She sent me this last night and gave me permission to share it with you.    

Susan,

I don’t know how much you’ve heard or been paying attention to this awful bit of fallout from the campaign; but, I thought you might be a little bit interested.

Somehow, for some unknown reason, some alt-right website decided that Hillary and John Podesta were running a pedophile ring out of a neighborhood pizza restaurant. I’m not at all sure that either of them has ever even been to this place. It certainly isn’t easily accessed by HRC’s house in DC. Here’s some background:

And this was today’s result.

I have NO IDEA how to counteract any of this. I just hope a lawsuit will be filed immediately and the same thing that happened to Gawker will happen to these bozos. Except, I hope somebody besides this fool also goes to jail. We are certainly living in interesting times. Poor us.

This isn’t Texas, but, GEEZ!

(As an aside, that 1950s “Comet” sign hung on a liquor store just down the street from me for, like, forever. The couple that bought the store from the previous owners were a fixture here until the old man died suddenly and his elderly wife wasn’t able to keep the store going by herself. Their children were all well educated and had lives and careers elsewhere (although one of them died of AIDS in Florida). So, they closed the liquor store and the folks who were going to open up a restaurant a few miles up on Connecticut Avenue bought the sign and immediately had a name for the new place. The initial controversy was that they put ping-pong tables on the the sidewalk out in front and people were concerned about balls landing in traffic. The tables were moved inside. During this incident today, the businesses on both sides of the place were locked down, too, including the bookstore “Politics and Prose” which is where everybody wants to have a reading/signing session. Every journalist you’ve ever heard of who has published a book has been there. I could go on, but you get the drift.)

You can use this if you want; but, I thought you’d want to know about the latest scourge that has descended on us all since Dat Guy got elected. I’m just praying for “faithless” electors at this point.

Barbara

Thanks, Barbara.