SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET:

THE ABSURDITY CONTINUES – FROM DAILY CALLER:  The woman who has won more grand slam titles is being banned from her tennis club. Margaret Court won 24 singles titles and since retiring she has become a pastor.  As a pastor, she is a big believer in traditional marriage between a man and a woman. It is 2017, so obviously her views have cost her some supporters, but this doesn’t come as much of a surprise.  The part that might come as a surprise is her membership to ‘Cottesloe Tennis Club’ in Australia where Court is from has been revoked.  Michael Roberts, chief executive of Tennis West said, “If you’ve got an opinion that’s very polarising, when you’re so firmly supportive or against something, then it’s going to have an impact on how you’re perceived in the community.”  What jerks.  A tennis club expelling Margaret Court is like a baseball club expelling Lou Gehrig.  Compare please to the way the trendies in America idolize football players who refuse to rise for the national anthem.

MORE HILLARY THAN WE CAN TAKE – FROM FORTUNE:   Hillary Clinton spoke about her thoughts on what she viewed as sexist comments by President Donald Trump and women who continued to support him.  "When I see women doing that, I think why are they publicly disrespecting themselves? Why are they opening the door to have someone say that about them in their workplace? In a community setting? Do they not see the connection there?" Clinton said in an interview on AM Joy.  She added that the fight against sexism is ongoing, even for women. She also pointed out that, while more women voted for her, she lost the white women's vote. However, she said progress was still made because she won more votes from white women than former President Barack Obama did.  "We had such a public and still an ongoing movement to expand civil rights. Again, I'm proud of the progress, but we still have a lot of problems we have to confront," Clinton told Joy Reid during the interview.  Isn't she married to a guy named Bill Clinton?  And she's lecturing other women?

LIBERAL JUSTICE – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:  A hot-headed teen got a slap on the wrist Friday for slugging a Manhattan principal who told him to turn down his music.  Judge Edwina Richardson-Mendelson granted Luis Penzo, 19, youthful offender status and sentenced him to a conditional discharge — as long as he stays out of trouble for three years he’ll dodge prison and a criminal record.  “You made us very proud,” the judge said of the surly teen’s compliance with a family therapy program.  Penzo, who sauntered into Manhattan Supreme Court Friday wearing a white T-shirt and red gym shorts, offered no apology for the October 2016 beatdown of Principal Matthew Tossman.
He previously admitted to the attack on Tossman of the Manhattan Early College School for Advertising.
“He grabbed my Beats and was very aggressive so I lost control,” he confessed, according to court papers. “I hit him two times.”  When the principal asked him to turn down his music, Penzo dropped the headphones on the floor and left the music booming, prosecutors said.  Tossman reached for the device and Penzo pounced on him, leaving the educator with two black eyes and a laceration that needed seven stitches.  Not even considered a big story in liberal New York.  The child is probably misunderstood.

September 23, 2017