SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 9:35 P.M. ET: 

RUSSIA SHOWS OFF – Ah, the good old days.  Major military displays in Red Square.  From the L.A. Times:  "Western boycott of Russia's Victory Day parade Saturday did little to chasten the Kremlin as Russian President Vladimir Putin rolled out fearsome new armor and weapons in a thundering message that might makes right.  In the absence of Russia’s World War II allies who stayed away in protest of Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine, Putin was surrounded at the Red Square event largely by leftist foreign leaders for his display of the military power that has made Russians proud and their neighbors nervous.  Under blue skies and sunshine befitting a postcard, the Kremlin marked the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany by parading 16,000 troops, nearly 200 tanks and armored vehicles, truck-mounted ballistic missiles and 140-plus aircraft before thousands of Russian dignitaries, Soviet war veterans and about two dozen foreign leaders."  Russian rearmament should be one of our two or three greatest concerns.  But we don't focus on it too often, and the Dems are so far to the left that many of them really don't care.

MAJOR EDUCATION NEWS – From Fox:  "A University of New Hampshire professor will be teaching the ins and outs of the recent scandal surrounding the New England Patriots this fall.  Michael McCann, a sports law professor, will teach a course on 'Deflategate' in the fall term. McCann has designed the four-credit undergraduate class to take a look at the legal underpinnings of the scandal.  The class will be about the 'interplay between those footballs…and the legal, regulatory and journalistic systems governing sports,' the course description says. The class will be open to about 75 students.  McCann is a sports law contributor for Sports Illustrated and is an attorney in Massachusetts."  Actually, it sounds like fun.  But I await the moment when discussion will turn to the nickname for a football – the pigskin – and an impassioned debate over whether this is hate speech directed at an oppressed animal minority.

THE CLOONEY VOTE – Hillary Clinton is running as the candidate of the little people.  She publicly frowns on big money in politics, then collects three hundred grand for a speech.  And look at the peasant-like contributions she's getting.  From fusion.net:  "It looks like Hillary Clinton’s got the #TeamClooney vote on lock. In a new interview with Fusion’s Jorge Ramos, George Clooney says that he’ll assist Clinton, whom he describes as a 'tremendous candidate,' in 'whatever way [he] can help.'  Clooney’s full support could be huge for the Clinton campaign, given its primary fundraising goal of $100 million. Back in 2012, the Academy Award-winning actor held a fundraising event for Barack Obama at his Studio City, California, home that ultimately raised $10 million for the incumbent—the largest amount of money raised at a single Obama campaign event up to that point."  Oh, Clooney once referred to Hillary as "polarizing."  I guess he's gotten the message from the Clinton syndicate.

May 9,  2015