Overnight News: A riot is a mass meltdown of the underfathered.

Allowing for Portland, as always, there were no looting riots last night in response to the Rittenhouse verdict. Too cold. There are other kinds of riots, but the only kind I’ve ever seen are looting riots, whatever their reputed pretext, and looting riots like a sultry Summer night.

I’m delighted that the railroading of young Kyle failed, dismayed beyond belief that it happened in the first place, and reconciled to the fact that this sort of persecution of the good for being good will recur: “My internal disquiet is caused by your disapproval, not by my own cognitive dissonance. I’ll feel better once you’re exterminated.”

We are sometimes reminded that almost all the violent crime in America is committed by a tiny percentage of the population. We are even slower to take notice that looting riots only happen because there is an extant looter population among us: People who are opportunistically-predatory graduate their predations with the inverse of their estimate of the risk of the consequences. A looting riot is a short period of consequence-free predation.

This is all more underfathering – Kyle, too – but we don’t have a civilization if we do not have good people, if fewer and fewer people learn in childhood why being civilized matters.

In other news:

RedState.com: The Rittenhouse Trial Shows Us Why Cameras in Courtrooms Are the Proper Move for Our Legal System.

The Federalist: LEAKED: Teachers Reveal How They ‘Stalk’ Kids, Sideline Parents To Pull Middle Schoolers Into LGBT Groups.

The Federalist: Thanks To Leftists, The Black Talent Companies Seek To Hire With Racial Quotas Doesn’t Exist: Lack of representation in corporate boardrooms is not because of mythical white privilege. It is due to the breakdown of the black family.

Joel Kotkin: America Is Built on a Great Culture. Progressives Want to Abandon It.