News Roundup:

Yet another 80s-style this:

A Superior Township parks commissioner and his roommate were in Detroit police custody Monday, suspected of vandalizing the Joe Louis fist statue in downtown Detroit and leaving the photos of two slain Detroit police officers on the monument’s base.
Police said Monday they were unsure whether the white paint splattered on the sculpture early Monday symbolized racism or some other type of political statement against violence in Detroit.

It’d be a lot funnier if they had painted it blue or pink or something. The race element sort of cancels out the hilarity of standing on Jefferson at 4 a.m. with mops and paint buckets and not being caught except by some cab driver. Not that vandalism is cool or right. The sheer audacity is funny, but the message is incendiary.
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Then there’s this progress report on Kwame’s crackdown on liquor stores. An interesting thing buried in the article is that the second-highest number of tickets was issued for expired food. It’s not surprising. Go into a liquor store, or even some grocery stores, in the neighborhoods and check out the food on the shelves. More often than not you’ll find a bunch of expired crap that sat through the blackout and its warm temperatures last summer, yet remains on the shelf, often with hilariously bygone expiration dates.