With Friends Like These

The Pussy Riot verdict came in.

The band is guilty of “hooliganism,” a crime that warrants an exasperated, shaking fist on The Andy Griffith Show but two years in prison for these women who dared to criticize Putin in a church.

We can pee on Jesus in an art museum here and get yelled at on TV, and maybe lose our funding, but we would not be put in prison. Let alone a prison where “more than 50,000 inmates have tuberculosis, there are 35,000 people with HIV and there are nearly 90,000 drug addicts.”

Smartypantses On Trial

Or should I say, smartydresses on trial.

Or should I say, punk rock on trial.

Or should I say, how can a nation look anyone in the eye after this?