🔗 Overnight shootings in Pennsylvania and Texas mar Fourth of July festivities.

I’m sorry .. What?

Mar?

To mar your 4th July festivities would be that it rained on your barbecue. Next they’ll be reporting about the ’inconvenience’.

@JohnPhilpin 2. a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person’s body); “a facial blemish”

@odd «As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:» ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭52‬:‭14‬ ‭KJV‬‬ bible.com/bible/1/i...

@odd yes.. I know what it means ... and so should the Guardian, my point is that a number of people being shot dead should merit more outrage than ’mar’.

@JohnPhilpin Maybe the rest of the world will be outraged once Americans become outraged.

@JohnPhilpin True. There are grades of “mar”, but if papers don’t lead the public discourse into reality-land, then who will?