In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

I've been saying all along that we've been in a moral panic, and I think it's just about run its course. That doesn't mean we won't continue to see local outbreaks of one sort or another, but I think the country in general is George Floyded out. A current late-phase local outbreak stems from an old, pre-panic device, the noose, or as some accounts now put it, the "apparent noose". These have kept popping up over the past several decades, but they're all almost immediately discredited as hoaxes or misunderstandings. This latest noose brouhaha is at an Amazon construction site in Windsor, CT. According to the New York Post , Amazon halted construction at a facility in Windsor, Connecticut for the second time in as many weeks on Wednesday — after an apparent noose was found in the building for the eighth time in recent weeks. Workers found a red rope “with a noose tied at the end” entangled in yellow electrical cables on the 5th floor of th...