For the sake of humor, I often email my friends with a news report followed by a parody of it. Sometimes it is difficult, however, for readers to accept that the real news item is not itself the actual parody.  Here is an example. According to a report at Fox News, a college student "active in the local Black Lives Matter movement is suddenly all for police patrols in his neighborhood — after he was robbed at gunpoint outside his apartment."   This reminds us of the decades-old truism that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.  In this case, the mugging was literal.  While it is doubtful that the student has now become a Second Amendment right-wing "deplorable" conservative, it is entirely possible that he has finally taken the first baby step toward acknowledging reality – at least that tiny part of it encompassing the fact that policemen are not, it turns out, "hunting down young black men like dogs and...(Read Full Post)