There’s always news to peer at. Watching news-watchers can be useful, too. 

Roy Rivenburg writes today about satirist Nellie Bowles of the independent new-media outlet The Free Press. Her (mostly) equal-opportunity work has a target-rich environment. In politics, both sides bloviate. They obfuscate. They might take positions of convenience and later smile wanly and adopt the opposite stance.

Ms. Bowles skewers the left and the right alike. She cites a homeless encampment “run by BMW-driving socialists.” She likens inauguration meme coins to “tiny Ponzi schemes; the price goes up as long as people keep buying.” Being constructive matters. Arguably, we sometimes need someone to let some air out – not to injure, but to make us think.