The speaker seems surprised that an eleven year old almost shot a Milwaukee city inspector to death. The eleven year old was trying to carjack him.

 Return with me now to those thrilling days of yesteryear (2011, in this case), when critics like Marcia Angell screamed at anyone who would listen about the obscene overprescription of psychotropics in America and Europe. Maybe all the pharma shits are killing us with psychotropics talk got sidetracked for the last fifteen years by the super-obscene Purdue/Sackler/Oxycontin saga, in which the shits are killing us with opiates. In any case, despite powerful evidence of the inefficacy, not to mention withdrawal perils, of mood pills for many Americans, everyone kept gobbling them, cheered on by docs in the hands of pharma companies, and of course by pharma itself. Lots of people are on four or five of these pills. Even the morbid obesity of the DSM (“At least one diagnosis for every American.”), and the strong improbability of the underlying theory of psychotropics – brain chemical imbalance – have done little to stop the Gabitril train.

But now, under the influence of RFK Jr (politics makes strange bedfellows, mes petites), psychiatrists are suddenly engaging the air brake system, tossing about terms like deprescribing space, and knitting their brows over the fact that “16.6 percent of U.S. adults, or roughly one in six, report currently taking an S.S.R.I.”

Fuuuuuck that’s a lot man and some of that is, you know, kids under six and shit…. Pharma bros ain’t gonna like it, but maybe we should do something…

Lord knows how much more you could have done.

They keep trying to anoint the state a Christian kingdom. Back in 1995 they got all pissed when the local ACLU threatened to sue an Ohio county just cuz they put a twelve foot cross on top of their courthouse. And just tuther day the entire Columbus Downtown Commission rejected a Christian lobbyist group’s proposal for three crosses on a rooftop right across from the statehouse, two 12 feet and one 16 feet high and illuminated and all.

It’s real hard to make people who don’t understand the foundations of this country stop trying to Christianize its institutions. Like the Columbus Commission, you just have to keep heading them off at the pass.

Y’all know (if you know UD) how much she loves this kind of writing, with exfiltrated AIM forming ominous messages; and you know she reliably found it in university sports writing.

In the old days, she read gobs of this stuff, and was sure to share it with you; but now, though the sports biz is – uh – starker than ever, her gaze has wandered away from violent coaches, criminalized teams, empty stadiums etc etc.

Still, if the toothpaste is so stark that no one can look away (see Rutgers and WSU), she will read and report about the writing on the wall. Shockingly, because I was sure as shootin’ it was just a few bad apples, approximately “75% of male college students bet on sports and more than 25% .. are athletes.” And then there’s the coaches. Legal/NCAA compliance among our gridiron and b-ball court guys looks kind of like this.

At least she didn’t say World War Match Sticks.

Man Dead after Gun Discharges

in Parking Lot at Dolly Parton’s Stampede

in Pigeon Forge

… hit people in the head and threaten to shoot them with the 9-millimeter gun you’re holding. In a hospital’s emergency department.

Many certifiable lunatics are shooting at us. Ask the White House Correspondents.

Little Miss Rural Vermont and SOOOO many like her get little to no press coverage. But they’re busy resolving their rage issues at the local hospital and environs as we speak. Take care.

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Also, in Annals of American Heath Care:

Talley ultimately shot out a hospital window and fled on foot … A photograph obtained by the [Chicago] Sun-Times showed him running naked with electrodes on his chest. Prosecutors said he was found a short time later under a nearby porch.

An incredibly dangerous criminal hiding a gun is let into a hospital where he kills one cop and critically injures another.

Walk on through the slugs, walk on through the rounds! Though your guts be tossed and blown…

Sunday’s shooting comes exactly a week after another mass shooting near the University of Iowa, another Midwest Big10 school.

This one, at Indiana University, happened a couple of hours ago.

I mean, he was sitting right up there with the president and all and his sensitive equipment picked up nothing?

Fuck, man, this is America. You don’t even need sensitive equipment to anticipate bangbang in any public setting. Shopping malls are shuttering across the United States cuz of all the exchange of fire (one local reporter was cruel enough to quote a chamber of commerce person about a dying mall: “[Nancy] Hafford said the crime rate is actually on the decline, and crime should not be a deterrent for mall shoppers.”); and even the expertly surveilled power structure of the free world can’t get through a dinner without pistol play/hysterical hiding under tables. Not very seemly, but when everyone’s got a gun [current number of guns in private hands 500 million plus], what do you expect?

It’s Baton Rouge (I call it Sang Rouge)!

Lookee here. Let’s not have any fake surprise that the gunniest city in America’s gunniest state utterly expectedly produced a bunch of teenagers (ages 13 – 16? I’m guessing.) butchering the innocent.

Sang Rouge is SOOO bloody, so beyond bloody, so bodaciously bloodsoaked! Nuther big mass bloodletting jest tuther day (in Shreveport; those victims were from a few months to eight years old) in that dripping red state; and now Massacre at the Mall.

Hold onto your hats – gonna be a lot more Louisiana blood running red.

Politicians have hired speechwriters to come up with new ways for them to say Message: I care but fuck gun laws. “Draft 52 distinct tweets for me – one for every week of the year. No redundancy and keep it Christian.”

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Some nice detail here:

After shots echoed through the food court and sirens began blaring outside, shoppers sprinted out of the mall. Some women donned nylon capes as they darted out of the JCPenney hair salon, their hair half-done.

Nylon capes is good. And this paragraph answers the question What do Baton Rougeans do for exercise? Sprinting, darting.

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“We’re not going to have this in Baton Rouge,” says the mayor. Babe, you’ve had it for years and you’ll have it til the next Great Mississippi Flood washes the city away.

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Court records show that during a hearing Tuesday, Commissioner Jermaine Guillory allowed Washington to stop wearing a GPS ankle monitor and instead placed him on telephone-based supervision.

It’s beautiful to watch how no gun laws plus morally degenerate judges work together to insure that bloodthirsty bastards remain in circulation. Hat tip also to this gunny’s high school, which seems not to have expelled him despite a criminal history that included stealing a gun that went off inside a classroom.

”Guillory said when the 18-year-old returns to court in July, he wants to see him with his high school diploma, a job, safe, healthy and out of jail.” Ain’t dat sweet!

He’s on the state bar board of governors! An inspiration to us all.

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Oh. Well! Why didn’t you say so in the first place, Guillory?

LOLOLOL.

… Tracy Nelson, Mother Earth.

Weawy? Are you sure? This hijabi, who runs a hijab-heavy day care center in Montreal, counsels us that restricting almost-total face and body veiling at public centers like hers is naughty and bigoted and will turn out insufficiently tolerant people. When young girls see other young girls, and older women, swathed en masse because they think God tells them that women and only women should hide themselves because otherwise they will inflame the raging lust of men… Is this sort of reasoning worthy of our respect? Does it tend to produce an egalitarian society?

Babe, as soon as people can start to reason for themselves (assuming they’re being raised to reason rather than obey their imam) they can perceive the regression of the burqa/hijab in the context of a free and equal liberal order.