So yes, more of your civil liberties have been trundled off to the dead letter office as you slumbered, which is the usual synapse-crushing course of events these days. Enjoy your shopping.

But on the positive side, there’s a mighty uptick in the number of self-made superheroes slipping through the American night, which gives me some cause for hope.

Granted, the fellow below looks more able to enroll people in a craft class than to protect us all from the galloping destroyers of civil liberty. All the same, I’m glad he’s there, forging his own sword of justice.

The Blackbird, protector of Milwaukee (and, by extension, Schlitz, but you can’t win them all):