The Right-Cheek Ass Clown for May, 2025

Yes, I know that you're tired of hearing me complain about the difficulty in selecting worthy ass clowns to whom these awards can be presented. In my defense, the staggering number of candidates in the current administration, plus Congress, plus enablers, plus information-resistant MAGAts, religious bigots, and ordinary-run-of-the-mill ass clowns make the selection harder all the time. I'm getting old and it gets harder to focus all the time. But I started this mess, and I've gotta keep it going, and so it is that I have decided to name as 

The Right-Cheek Ass Clown for May, 2025

United States Attorney General

Pam Bondi

Yesterday (as noted in this space) we celebrated Law Day, which honors the rule of law that is a cornerstone of American identity and life. Today, we note that the Attorney General of the United States - the nation's chief law enforcement officer, responsible for the administration of justice and the protection of our rights - appears devoted not to the rule of law, but to the slavishly loyal facilitation of the angry prejudices of a president uninterested in justice that does not personally benefit him.

Under the "leadership" of Ms Bondi, the Department of Justice has turned sharply away from the protection of Americans' rights to focus on "election integrity" and facilitating the identification, arrest, and summary deportation of persons illegally in the United States. The role of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has been changed from the protection of Americans' civil rights to pursuing charges against colleges and universities for alleged "anti-semitism" and sanctuary cities for protecting (rightly or wrongly) the rights of persons illegally in the country.

Ms Bondi has repeatedly twisted, if not completely ignored the truth to justify the arguably illegal and definitely unconstitutional treatment of persons caught up in immigration sweeps, most notably the obvious photoshopping of tattoos on the hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, in a clumsy attempt to "prove" his membership in the MS-13 criminal gang. 

She has refused to open an investigation into multiple incidents of the exposure of classified military information by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In a post on Twitter, Ms Bondi credited Der Furor with "saving over 119 million lives" through fentanyl seizures. 119 million is approximately 35% of the population of the United States. At a cabinet meeting later in the week, also citing fentanyl seizures, she said Der Furor and his administration had saved 258 million people, or approximately 75% of the population.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, Attorney General Pam Bondi - the nation's chief law enforcement officer and protector of our rights - is more focused on stroking the ego and accommodating the angry prejudices and vengeance of her boss than on protecting American citizens' rights under the law. She has richly earned her designation as the Right-Cheek Ass Clown for May, 2025.

Enjoy your civil rights while you can.

Have a good day, and come back tomorrow for Cartoon Saturday, when we'll take a cartoonist's look at books and reading ... a pastime evidently not much enjoyed by the MAGA crowd.

More thoughts then.

Bilbo