Your Bridgewater, Russian and Scooby Doo [?] news Roundup

Last night we took our youngest to see a stage production of Scooby Doo at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, courtesy of our sister who booked the show. Afterwords we got to meet the characters backstage. Which was cool. The show is out of Canada, and we suggested that a big rig should have motored across the stage. [Hey, not funny-Ed]

So a controversial police incident happened in our hometown. NJ.com reports: 'The response by two police officers to a fight on Saturday at the Bridgewater Commons Mall is under an internal police investigation after video of the altercation shows the officers pinning a Black teenager to the ground and handcuffing him, while the white teen involved in the fight was allowed to sit on a couch.' 

The incident was known around town for a few days before making the news. In 17 years, we've had half a dozen interactions with the Bridgewater PD, including one where they intervened in a dispute with a neighbor that nearly came to blows (asshole, no one likes that guy). In all those incidents, the Bridgewater Police have been nothing but professional and polite and helpful. 'Talk to me, sir. tell me what's happening.' Wait for facts, which NJ.com does a great job of reporting. Here's the fight.

PJ O'Rourke died yesterday at the age of 74, which almost seems young these days, no? He once wrote that 2020 was his 'approximate checkout date.' PJ nailed that one. Thirty years ago this summer we saw a book with a man on the cover wearing a tuxedo jacket and Desert Storm camo pants. We bought Give War a Chance and changed the way we saw the world. We'll have more to say on PJ O'Rourke in a few days. 

Zerohedge says, 'Echoing a false allegation we have repeatedly heard before, early on Tuesday the Associated Press (of "how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis" fame) writes that "U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership of amplifying Kremlin propaganda and alleged five media outlets targeting Ukrainians have taken direction from Russian spies. The officials said Zero Hedge, which has 1.2 million Twitter followers, published articles created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence." Well, now we've done it - we've angered the CIA.' 

Join the club, pal. Zerohedge goes on to note that the Soviet, sorry Russian Strategic Culture foundation writes an occasional guest post for them. Cool. One of our articles ended up on the RSV website. The AP once did a hit piece on Inforos that quoted one of our articles without attribution, our own 'Chaos in the Blue Cities.'  Pricks. They could have contacted us for comment, but no. That's journalism 101. We learned that the first writing for our college newspaper. Try it some time, Eric Tucker.