Breaking news: House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others shot at an Alexandria, VA park.

Suspect is in custody.

In Berlin, a court acquitted a 23-year-old Turkish man of rape because his victim could not prove that she did not give her consent. The court heard how the man shoved the woman's head between the steel bars of the headboard of a bed and repeatedly violated her over a period of more than four hours. The woman cried "stop" and resisted by scratching the accused on the back, but at some point she stopped resisting. The court asked: "Could it be that the defendant thought you were in agreement?"

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10522/germany-migrant-sex-crimes

A judge sentenced three Muslim refugee boys in the sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl in Idaho, but nobody knows the length or terms of the sentence because the judge has barred everyone in the courtroom, including the victim’s own parents, from speaking about the case.

https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/idaho-muslim-refugees-no-jail-after-idaho-rape/

The French equivalent to what Americans are doing to the Star Trek reboot:

https://twitter.com/Arch_Revival_/status/874933041210290177

One would think that a shooting incident would make people reflect on this extreme political polarization but noooo.

https://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei/posts/2045148995514543

Okay, but why are they playing baseball on Wednesday morning?

Is this a racist flowchart?

https://twitter.com/vern7770/status/875019761574346752

> but noooo.

Jacoby has been clucking like that this morning, too... (There are a few more in his feed, along with some of his own political take.)

This urge to scold isn't helpful.

In the enormous arena of public attention, people's eyes and tongues will haphazardly glance at uncertain topics of atrocity and outrage… But that's what we do all the time anyway. Two hours later, Jacoby was mocking the enthusiasts of the Palestinian Authority, perhaps righteously... But he apparently doesn't recognize the contextual verve of his sanctimony.

"but why are they playing baseball on Wednesday morning?"

I wondered that too... but it turns out that they were getting ready for some kind of annual Senate charity game.

Cultural appropriation. Apparently there's some UN nonsense to criminalize "appropriation".

https://waronguns.blogspot.com/2017/06/two-can-play-that-game.html

Tweets you should put on ye olde resume.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/14/liberal-wapo-analysis-writer-budding-author-deletes-heinous-tweet-about-shooting/