Local media outlets reported that over 10,000 people took part in a peaceful protest/rally that began & ended at Riverfront Park in downtown Troy on Sunday. One of the coolest parts of the event, ironically, came from the police, as officers handed out free slices of pizza to participants.
Police Chief Brian Owens and his department also prevented some uninvited guests from joining in. Reports have a group of people dressed in military fatigue style clothing were taken into custody for questioning, and at least a couple of them were in fact armed with handguns. If it's true that they had malicious intentions, these would be the kind of agitators that have turned peaceful protests around the country into riots. We're hoping to learn more.
In any event, a huge thank you to Chief Owens.
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Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries is only making things worse for fans of the show.
Interviewed over the weekend, Dries tried to justify the decision to reboot the series for its second season, virtually from the ground up, by replacing the character of Kate Kane (Ruby Rose resigned from the show last month) with a completely new character, which detractors are already calling, Hobo Batwoman.
Dries said that executive producer Greg Berlanti, one of the busiest men in Hollywood, had essentially signed off on the move.
BOLLOCKS & BALDERDASH!
Berlanti is shepherding a whopping 18 shows right now, including another freshman drama, Fox's Prodigal Son, which also has been renewed. To deviate so far away from what DC has established with this series, I'd not be surprised if publisher Jim Lee eventually gets a clue and pushes back, as would writer J. H. Williams, who introduced the modern day Kate nearly 10 years ago.
Remember, too, that another Berlanti series, Riverdale, is so much a darker alternate universe than the traditional comics, but that series, while it has its fans as it enters season 5, also has its detractors as well.
Dries knows she screwed up, and is trying to cover her trail. Like, please! One cowled Dunce Cap, made to order!
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Meanwhile, The Flash suddenly has one less ally.
Hartley Sawyer, who played Ralph Dibny, aka the Elongated Man, the last three seasons, was given the heave-ho after----predictably----old tweets dating back well before he joined the show surfaced with racist and misogynistic themes. Some get-a-life started digging for online dirt on any celebrity in the wake of current social unrest over the last two weeks, and, finding some of Sawyer's old messages, forwarded them to Berlanti Productions & WB.
My question to these people is this. Why do you go digging into someone else's past anyway? What purpose does that serve?
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One more Dunce Cap to hand out, and it's a doozy.
Editorial cartoonists are going to have a field day, if they haven't already started.
Attorney General William Barr went on Face The Nation Sunday, and tried to spin what happened last Monday at Lafayette Park in Washington. I don't think Margaret Brennan was having any of this...
During George W. Bush's administration (2001-9), Bush was often characterized as being a little dense (cartoonist Tom Tomorrow stopped short of drawing Bush like he was Alfred E. Neumann of Mad Magazine, for example), and VP Dick Cheney would stand behind him to remind him of what he was supposed to say.
A Yahoo! headline a few days ago had someone refer to Barr as President Trump's consigliore. Let's face facts, folks. Trump makes Bush look like a Rhodes Scholar. Barr, like press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, is being made to look like a fool. He doesn't look too comfy sitting there in the studio, does he? Hmmmmm, welllllllll, of course not!
Barr and other members of the Cabinet have betrayed this country by kow-towing to a petulant man-child who won't read press releases, the Bible, the Constitution, etc., unless it's put before him in front of cameras, at which point, of course, Trump tends to trip himself up.
Barr claims the protesters a week ago where throwing things. There's no proof of that. He claims tear gas wasn't used. Wrong! He says he wanted the protesters moved down the block to clear a path for President Manchild to do a photo op at St. John's Church. Dude, you could've done that without the tear gas! A megaphone and a few polite words would've done the trick, you dimwit!
Enjoy the Dunce Cap, Mr. Barr. Not even Perry Mason can get you out of this one.
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