No Pride

Enrique Tarrio, former (note former) leader of the Proud Boys, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for the January 6 attack on the Capitol.  He did not command any insurrectionists in the field of battle, he did not set foot in Washington on that day, he did not commit an acts of violence, and he did not get away with covering his rear end when a jury of his apparent peers found him guilty.  

In fact, he was not in Washington on January 6, 2021 because he had been arrested just a few days earlier for vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a Washington, D.C. church with a historically black congregation.

So maybe there's hope that Donald Trump can be incarcerated before he gets into the Oval Office again.

The sentence, though not as stiff as it could have been, was pretty severe just the same, and it was a sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly.  Kelly is a member of the conservative  Federalist Society, he was appointed by Donald Trump in 2017, and he was confirmed by a Republican-majority Senate on a fast track.  And even he wouldn't show Tarrio any leniency.

Could Trump get a similar sentence if convicted of insurrection?  Cross your fingers.  

Na, Na, Na, Gonna Have Some Jail Time?

Guilty.

Bill Cosby, now convicted of sexual assault in one out of 59 cases, will soon face sentencing.  People are talking about jail time.  Really? Jail time for a man who turns 81 in July?

It's too bad he's gone blind, because a better punishment would have been to make him sit through all of the movies he made after he stopped working with Sidney Poitier.  And make him watch The Devil and Max Devlin twice.  

In which case, how about have all 59 women slap him once?  Or let Andrea Constand slap him 59 times?  Better yet, have him listen to the audio-book version of Michael Eric Dyson's "Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?)" . . . 59 times.

Right.  Let's move on.  Hey, hey, hey!