PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

Shot:

Last week, after the brutal beating of a Giants fan in the Dodgers Stadium parking lot, Los Angeles and San Francisco officials issued a public plea for more “civility and common decency” among sports fans. In January, the shootings in Tucson in which six people were killed and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, sparked a national conversation on civility in politics. The following month, the University of Arizona established the National Institute for Civil Discourse to advocate greater civility in all corners of the public square.

Americans are clearly worried about their behavior toward one another; polls bear this out. And our obsession with our own uncivil behavior is nothing new. Lack of common courtesy is a longstanding American character flaw impossible to eradicate. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep trying.

— “Our Civility Deficit,” the Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2011.

Chaser: “Just Sick. L.A. Times journalist Steven Borowiec tweets he’d ‘rather see Trump’s life end.’”

—Twitchy, today.