If it's a day of the week, there must be a protest going on somewhere

Chinese-Americans must have a lot of free time on their hands: A few thousand protested at CNN headquarters in Atlanta and Los Angeles, cranky over remarks made by “The Situation Room’s” wryly irascible bomb thrower Jack Cafferty about the Chinese government.

Except that when Cafferty said, “I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years,” he didn’t specify that it was the government he was talking about. Except that if you look at the context of what he said, it’s pretty apparent that’s who he was talking about, not the entire population of China.

One of the protestors had last taken to the streets in 1989 – in Tiananmen Square. In other words, he last stood up to the very goons and thugs Cafferty was grousing about. So it goes.

Hopefully, Cafferty will ride this one out. CNN needs him to keep blustery old Wolf Blitzer on his toes. And it’s emblematic of our world’s current sitcom-family dysfunction that even the Olympics – that venerable celebration of global brotherhood – is inspiring so much enmity and protest.