Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog recognizes that multiple titles could have applied to this blog post, so before I get into the meat of this item, let’s look at some of those potential alternate titles.
DEMOCRAT FASCISTS FURTHER TRUMP’S MARTYRDOM IN PURSUIT OF A TALKING POINT THAT WILL ULTIMATELY GET OVERTURNED ANYWAY. (Just like all the frantic “Trump colluded with Russia” nonsense and “Trump was running a nuclear program at Mar-a-Lago” and all the other anti-Trump fables that have been spun out of whole cloth.) ALSO, REMEMBER, ALL OF THESE CHARGES ARE USUALLY MISDEMEANORS THAT WERE DISTORTED INTO FELONIES JUST TO “GET TRUMP,”
DONATIONS POUR IN FOR TRUMP CAMPAIGN FOLLOWING LATEST LEGAL TRAVESTY AGAINST HIM. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Silicon Valley man donates $300,000 HERE.
Okay, for overseas readers, let me mention once again that EVEN IF TRUMP IS SENT TO PRISON, HE CAN STILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT JUST LIKE EUGENE DEBS DID. Hell, such a provision was made possible by recognition of the fact that any incumbent administration could well turn out to be as criminal and authoritarian as the Biden Regime has proven to be and would jail political opponents. I never thought the hopelessly corrupt Democrat and Republican political establishment would allow Trump to win, anyway, and have said so in countless previous blog posts. I will still vote for him, though. It looks like my comparison of these situations to the ending of the Robert Redford movie Brubaker years ago was accurate.
And remember: “The evidence and testimony don’t matter, because the outcome was predetermined before the “trial” ever started. This is a political operation organized by the Democratic Party to punish Trump and, if possible, to prevent him from being elected president again.
Understand that 86% of voters in Manhattan voted for Joe Biden in 2020. There are no honest people on that jury. They know full well why they are there, and what is expected of them.” Every word of that is true. Plus, in another of the Trump cases NY literally changed the Statute of Limitations to get Trump, remember that? They also broke ex post facto by trying Trump, for whom that statute of limitations had already passed.
Now, on to my usual roundup of news, memes and political cartoons:
ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST PARTISAN ANTI-TRUMP ZEALOT MERCHAN ALREADY FILED.
TULSI GABBARD BRAVELY CALLS OUT BIDEN FOR “ABUSE OF POWER”.
LEGAL SCHOLARS DELUGE THE MEDIA TO POINT OUT THE MANY, MANY THINGS WRONG WITH THIS ABSURD TRUMP VERDICT. More HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.
CODENAME: FOXFIRE (1985) – The often star-crossed career of Joanna Cassidy hit another bump with this short-lived imitation of Charlie’s Angels. Joanna’s attractiveness and wild laugh had been paying decreasing dividends ever since the demise of her 1970s cult series 240 Robert. 
And especially “Why are we forgiving student loans for people that go to Harvard? Which, according to Scott Galloway, quite accurately, is nothing but a hedge fund that has classrooms. Well, they got a $52 billion f*cking surplus. Why are taxpayers going to bail these people out? Why don’t you come out with a proposal to tax every university with an endowment of over $5 billion and use that money to give their former students relief?” 
Over five years ago Balladeer’s Blog began a detailed look at the neglected folklore surrounding the Fool Killer figure. It’s been a while since I left off and I’m about to dive back in. There are so many new readers here that I’m posting a recap of the very first Fool Killer item from the 1850s. Next time I’ll resume where I left off – in 1913. 
Balladeer’s Blog kicks off a multi-part examination of the neglected 1800s folk figure called the Fool Killer. I will cover the various stories featuring the Fool Killer and the different ways the character was used by the authors. If I ever examine the related character called the Rascal Whaler it will be in a separate series of blog posts. 
However, since Evans was all about the written word, he used the Fool Killer as a much more active figure. Evans’ Fool Killer – claiming Jesse Holmes as his real name – roamed North Carolina and Virginia (which at the time still consisted of what would become West Virginia) looking for fools to kill with a club/ walking stick he always carried with him. The character would then send letters to Editor Evans explaining why he had chosen victims, defending his actions with puckish commentary. 
RANGE RYDER AND THE CALGARY KID (1977) – (Also known as The Adventure of the Dinosaur Badlands.) A 14-year-old MIKE MYERS co-starred in this Canadian children’s program that was also aired in the early 1980s on Nickelodeon. (Hey, Nick even showed episodes of The Uncle Floyd Show in its early years.) Myers (in headband) played the Calgary Kid, sidekick to David Ferry’s Range Ryder. 
