A man in Austria has been fined $565 for protesting police.

Following an incident where the man behaved “provocatively and uncooperatively” during an encounter with officers, he … well, tooted.  The police reported …

He got up from a park bench, looked at officers and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent,” they said. “And our colleagues don’t like to be farted at so much.”

The fine was imposed for “offending public decency.”

Oh, to live in a country that cares about decency.

Thanks to Carl, our Worldwide Tooting Corespondent, for the heads up.  

The Washington Post is reporting this afternoon that Christian conservatives are “rattled” that the Supreme Court dared to rule in favor of equality for everyone, even transexual and gay people.  At first I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion, and did a double take when I realized it was the Washington Post.  All the usual bible thumpers were quoted as shocked that their “religious freedom” to persecute others was being “eroded”.

This is the goddam 21st century, and we still have to put up with people who give themselves a wedgy when other people are acknowledged to have the same rights as their own dumb asses have?  Lord a’Mercy, give me patience. Oh, and BTW, I was actually shocked that it was a 6-3 decision with Gorsuch voting along with Roberts and Normal Judges to lock in that strong majority.  It must be a head fake for something really bad coming down the line, but I’ll take a victory when we can get it.

Trump is hoping for a position as a book reviewer once this White House gig is over.

President Trump on Monday said it was “highly inappropriate” for his former national security adviser John Bolton to write a memoir about his work in the White House and claimed the book contains classified information. 

Trump also suggested the details contained in the book may not be truthful, telling reporters Bolton has “been known not to tell the truth, a lot.”

Rumor has it that Trump is planning to file a lawsuit to prevent the publication of the book.

Lemme say something.  Screw John Bolton. He’s a horrible man and just screw him.  But if that sumbitch has information that would have impeached Trump then screw him on top of a fire ant hill on the hottest day in West Texas, because 110,000 people have died since then.  I hope when those two guys go to hell that Bolton and Trump live in connecting dumpsters.

However, I do acknowledge that Trump calling someone a liar is pretty damn funny.

Holy cow, Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts voted today to uphold Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.  They said someone cannot be fired from a job based on being “homosexual or transgender.”  And, damn, Gorsuch even wrote the majority opinion.

Now if we can just the Supremes to uphold the LGBTQ community’s right to health care, we’ll be doing some good.

We all know that generally, Trump is in poor health.  He’s obese, and lies about his weight and his height to conceal that.  He wears lifts in his shoes to appear taller which throws off his posture.  At the G7 summit in Italy in 2017, he rode in a golf cart while other world leaders strolled through the town where it was being held.  His diet is terrible, and he was rushed to Walter Reid Hospital last November for an unknown reason, only that it was for pre-work for his annual physical.  That physical is reported to have occurred in April, but results weren’t released until June 3rd, showing weight gain but stating the he “remains in good health”.

There have been a lot of questions about his true health as frailty, unsteadiness, and slurring his words have come to light regularly.  At It happened again on Saturday during the West Point graduation that Trump invited himself to attend, demanding that graduates already released to protect them from COVID-19 were ordered back to provide a backdrop for another of his rambling, self-aggrandizing word salad speeches.  This time, though, he struggled to drink water out of a glass, unable to raise it to his mouth with one hand, struggled to pronounce the word “ceremony” and then, after the speech unsteadily negotiated a shallow ramp down from the stage.  Here’s the walk.

Some make the excuse that he’s 74 years old; some think that he’s unsteady with those lifts in his shoes; I think he has some kind of health issue that he’s concealing from the public.  The slurring of words and weakness on his right side are telling, and feed speculation about Trump’s health on social media.  The lies and bombastic rhetoric pouring out of the White House  and his enablers tend to numb the public to his outrageous behavior; add that to his doctors exaggerating his “good health” and you get what you have today – speculation about his true condition.  Trump even gaslights the American people about his own health.  It’s time for him to come clean before the election, but I’m not holding my breath.