And, once comfortably assembled, of course, it can comfortably blow out your brain.

Indeed the ease and comfort of gun suicide is one reason its incidence in this country is soaring.

You can even be a psychologically fragile 18 year old and all you have to do is send away for your very own suicide kit — no questions asked! — and bingo you’re out of the running. Too easy…

SING IT

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Ken’s campaign looked all grody

The AG was all wet

Then Ken told big Cody

He’d deliver the threat

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Yes what a difference Cody’s bucks made

Cody just forked ‘em over

Ken’s campaign got an upgrade

Now he’s living in clover

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It’s heaven when you

Find a shakedown on your menu

What a difference a day makes

And the difference is TTU

Whether hookah or biker, lounge or breastaurant, the best way to haul out all your guns and kill people is to pack into one of these epicenters of the violent mentally retarded. Country music and cheap beer provide the atmospherics, the specifically American gestalt, for the ripping open of more tattooed flesh than you can shake a stick of numbing cream at.

A biker bar in Connecticut is the latest abattoir; on Facebook (see this post’s title) a knowledgeable local explains why she stopped going to the place.

… is such that sometimes our suffering in dying overwhelms, and we want it to end.

France has now joined ten countries, plus some states/regions in the US and Germany, where assisted dying is legal.

America’s modern Minutemen.

Oh come now.

LOL.

AI.

This blog has spent long years covering the supreme moral and financial corruption of Rutgers New Brunswick. Rutgers Newark has gotten lost in the shuffle, but now in its own small way that campus is making a contribution to the filth.

One of its deans seems to be self-dealing, getting the university to pay for faculty retreats at businesses she happens to own.

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UPDATE: WHYY has the numbers.

‘Either post-liberalism is something like, in [Patrick] Deneen’s case, a continuation of a certain sort of socially conservative Christian politics that has hardly been unfamiliar to American politics for decades, and so does not represent anything particularly new or radically challenging to liberalism. Or post-liberalism is a more full-blooded and genuine challenge to the liberal order. But when it takes that mode, like in [Adrian] Vermeule’s work, it becomes driven more by an irate, passionate fury against liberalism that ends up detaching it so far from reality that I do not think it deserves to be taken seriously as a political theory. It’s more like fantasy at that point. Indeed, I think a lot of the New Right could be described in that way. And while fantasies undoubtedly have a sort of causal force in politics in mobilizing and directing the people’s more negative emotions, this is not the same thing as a genuine intellectual challenge.’

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‘Vermeule recognizes that there is little support for post-liberalism today. Most people are too corrupted by liberalism and the liberal elite to know what is really good for them. They must be brought to see what is good for them. Their beliefs and values must be changed, through the use of political power (to be grasped via non-democratic means) and the law, so that they are better aligned with what will bring them true human flourishing (the common good). We must be transformed. And when we are, we will come to recognize that we have been brought to the light and thank our post-liberal rulers for having delivered us from moral error.  … Once you think politics no longer needs to be bound by people’s actual beliefs and values, as Vermeule does, then essentially your imagination is free to go wherever it wants. People, actual people, become nothing but abstractions, and the effects on them are inconsequential… [I]ntegralism is basically the idea that the Church should have authority over the State, at least in the pursuit of humans’ spiritual ends… Vermeule shrugs off claims that integralism is highly unrealistic in highly pluralistic societies like America by saying that once the right people get their hands on the levers of power, they will use that to make people more supportive of post-liberalism. However, what integralism also requires is that the Church is willing to do its bit, so to speak, by wanting to literally get involved in the ruling of countries. And to say that the Catholic Church has neither the appetite nor capacity for that would be an understatement. But Vermeule is entreating people to act as if the Pope were there just waiting for integralists to take over the US government so he can start governing citizens’ souls, which is so far removed from reality that I think we are in the realm of literal fantasy.’

UD is intrigued that Harvard University, of all places, harbors and honors Mr UFO (now a high ranking Trump official) and harbors and honors The Madness of King Adrian.

… USA.

The judge who got drunk and said ‘cunt’

Set going a subsequent hunt.

They found what he’d done

Was hide a big gun

Inside of his desk, toward the front.

She’s trying to return to Australia, where she holds citizenship, and, for some fucked up reason, Australia can’t keep her (or anyone holding citizenship?) from doing that.

No country’s laws should be such that it can’t protect itself from evil and violent fanatics/traitors who hate and want to destroy everything the country stands for.

At best, this severely twisted and insanely dangerous woman will be arrested the moment she touches down in Sydney, held while the state prepares a case against her, and then tried for crimes against humanity. The case will easily be proven, and the Australian taxpayer will subsidize her lifelong imprisonment — along with the imprisonment of quite a few other ISIS terrorists.

At worst, the Labor government will find a way to release her into the general population, where she will no doubt continue her torture spree, expensively trailed every moment by security forces.

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I know, I know. It’s impossible to believe that any sane polity would arrange to welcome multiple homicidal maniacs to its shores, but Australia’s current government claims it has no option but to do that. One can only hope its pathetic and vastly irresponsible behavior (ask the community of ISIS victims in Australia how they feel about the welcoming party) tosses them out in the next election.

Everybody – even the New York Times – is beating up on historian Kerri Greenidge because she apparently plagiarizes and makes up shit in her books. Her latest book seems to have been withdrawn, and she’s no longer at her tenured position at Tufts.

She’s calling the people calling her out racists.

Her supporters note that empirical reality doesn’t exist, so no big whoop.

Gated folk never seem to figure out that gates keep trouble in.

As in — everything depends, don’t it, on who lives in the armed camp?

Say you’ve got a violent psychotic teenager sharing a big ol’ mansion with ma and pa. Put their heavily guarded utopia in Texas, where breast feeders are issued Berettas. One night the crazed babe (private Christian school, where he played football; off to Texas Tech next year — or that was the plan before he started shooting neighbors) had his big psychotic break — or maybe he just smoked a shitload of meth — and stripped off his clothes and staggered among the statelies, armed and hallucinating.

PowpowpowpowhuhwhereamI? Kind of thing.

WheredIgetthisGlockohyeahmaandpahavefiftyguns. Kind of thing.

Well the cops killed him after he shot at them too, and the thing’s getting more press than your routine everyday Texas gun death onaccounta there’s a good video of it, plus it’s rich white folks and all.

Remember the Humistons. Only there the shooter was fifteen.