Keep Your Freak Flag To Yourself

Bob Donovan is often a favorite of the local right wing media. He is always spouting off about something or other, looking nice and tough, and then usually doing nothing useful. His latest publicity stunt was to sacrifice life and limb to protect the city from drunken urinators.

Mike Mathias has a priceless take on the incident, and the report involved:

Now, here’s my question about this incident, which Journal Sentinel Reporter Jesse Garza either failed to find out or didn’t share with her readers:

Had the “apparently drunken” threat to aldermen everywhere, ahem, zipped back up before he and Donovan started “going to town”?

Sure, a lot of us might be willing to confront someone in a similar situation. You know, take back the streets. Whatever.

But, let’s face it: It takes, well, real fortitude, to go after someone whose freak flag is flying.

Cops keep surgical gloves in their trunk for just these types of occasions.

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