Other amenities include a lower-level theater that seats nine and has upholstered walls; a main-floor fitness room with a steam room and a sauna with a Himalayan salt wall; an upstairs lounge with a coffee bar, three built-in workstations and terrace access; a wine display room with a backlit onyx wall and lounge …

Good ol’ DC. Neither kid was the shooter, but they were both carrying firearms without a license. A little peek into life here.

“This kind of mutually reinforcing corruption is what one sees in failing societies and empires in decline.”

To protect his own ass, Trump’s currently going after prominent Dems who got down and dirty with Epstein; and, as loyal readers of this blog know, Harvard prez Larry Summers was way dirty. Mutually reinforcing corruption being what it is, Harvard never issued a condemnatory statement about Summers, but hold onto your hats cuz it’s probably coming.

Here he is dining with Mr Lolita (and Dersh, natch) where? Oh, babe, you can’t make this shit up. An Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurant steps from Harvard’s campus. Your blogeuese has eaten there and can attest that it attracted droves of thirteen year old girls (it no longer exists).

[rick friedman/polaris]

On the multifarious ethical/financial corruptions of Summers, feast your eyes. Scroll, scroll, scroll.

A lot of Liberians like cutting off clitorises, and they don’t appreciate it when people try to stop them. It is good and great to castrate female babies, and if you disagree with this you’re going to hear from a lot of disgruntled people who are happy to point out that Liberian culture founds itself on bloody disfigurement.

On NY’s Upper East Side, a twenty-year old, probably suffering the onset of schizophrenia, gets hold of a gun and staggers about here and there, pointing it at random people.

There are many ways to freak out, but in the US – even in states with some gun-control – it’s just so easy to scare the shit out of the world as you go down.

He eventually fired the gun at the police, which ended the incident and his life.

You might just take a gander at my FORMS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE category to see some of the reasons.

This December 13, in the afternoon (don’t yet know exact time), I’m giving a talk on Jane Austen (it’s the 250th anniversary of her birth) at the Georgetown Public Library. This will be my fifth library lecture – I’ve talked about poetry and James Baldwin there. Please join us!

https://www.dclibrary.org/plan-visit/georgetown-library

UPDATE: The talk (Jane Austen: The Enigma of Her Endurance) will be at 2:00.

… the grotesque Dan Snyder house undergoes more than a mere reduction; it thins all the way down to nothingness. For the price of a pre-war Manhattan studio with a Central Park view, you can now boast a home the size of Dulles Airport.

Will anyone bite? This will be fun to watch.

More clarity from the clergy.

A British artist is looking into suing our Border Patrol cuz some of its guys had the unbelievable gall to take a pic of themselves in front of one of his public sculptures in Chicago.

A member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts notes the failure of the country’s H-H infrastructure:

“Drought, water crisis, and reduced rainfall are signs of God’s warning to awaken us from negligence and inattentiveness toward Him. The Islamic Revolution is built on the blood of martyrs, and it is not right that our streets become a parade ground for open sin, unveiled women, and public immorality. These behaviors have consequences…”

Goodrum told detectives that the night before the incident she had been drinking alcohol and grabbed her handgun, an arrest affidavit states. She said she was not wearing clothing that had a waistband and placed the gun under the couch cushion in the living room, according to the document.

Goodrum said she forgot to remove the gun from underneath the cushion.

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Mom hits the bottle and Dad’s a convicted felon in possession of firearms. Surely someone can take their already bullet-riddled kids away from them before this pair finishes them off.

‘Davis v. Ermold, the case that SCOTUS swatted away on Monday, was always a long-shot appeal. Many Americans likely remember the petitioner, a Kentucky clerk who refused to grant a marriage license to a same-sex couple in the wake of Obergefell, citing “God’s authority.” Many may recall that she was briefly jailed in contempt of court, becoming a cause célèbre among anti-gay Republicans. But few know what happened next: One couple whom Davis discriminated against sued her for violating their civil rights, and a jury ordered her to pay $360,000 in damages for attorneys’ fees.‘

On Wednesday, in response to the “blue wave” which swept over the Mountain State’s neighbor to the east, West Virginia Sen. Chris Rose, R-Monongalia, released a statement announcing that he had “introduced a Resolution inviting Virginia and Maryland counties to join the Mountain State.” Rose referred to this resolution as “An Appeal to Heaven.”

Down, Net Worth, Down!

Down, net worth, down!  Have you no shame
That after all my worthy Gift-Acclaim,
My Virtue, presto! up you raise
A billion more, and stand at gaze?

Poor online shopping shares, sworn to reach
More billions, and effect a breach -
Indifferent what you storm or why,
So that in the breach you multiply!