This is why UD reads the New York Times. Not so much because they have hugely long articles (I haven’t gotten to the end of this one) about crypto criminals and their heaps and heaps and heaps of dirty money. Rather, UD reads the NYT because they know that when you are listing three things, you use AMONG rather than BETWEEN.

So few publications care about this rule.

As for the billionaire bandit’s luxe life in Abu Dhabi – UD has so far failed to be impressed by the insane degeneracy of his daily emirate existence.

But hold on – she will read the piece to the end in hopes of discovering a new wrinkle on capitalist excess.

16 year old high school students in Arizona sell guns to the nice men in Sinaloa.

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For El Flaco, 18, the path to gun dealing began shortly after he started high school. He was 14.

Owning a gun, he said, was extremely common among fellow students at his high school. Boys posted photographs of themselves posing with pistols on Instagram and TikTok. Some brought the firearms to school, leaving them locked inside their cars during class and flaunting them after school, he said. Sometimes they brought them into school, he said.

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From the NYT reporter in the comments section:

One of the most striking things I encountered while reporting the story was just how deeply embedded gun culture is in Arizona, and how much it shapes and influences these teenagers’ choices, along with the sheer availability of firearms and how easily they can obtain high-caliber weapons, through both legal and illegal means.

… before UD gave a talk at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library about Elizabeth Bishop’s “Cape Breton.”

… you must be Pakistan. And while it’s all well and good to treat us like shit in Taxila, Texas is going to be a little trickier.

A Pakistani rich guy resident in Texas decided to dump his arranged wife. He did the Sharia three-step, figuring that’d work fine ‘round those parts, but the Texas Supreme Court ruled hey women in the United States have rights. You can’t just declare she’s over and take $100 million in community assets for yourself. If you want to do that, you’ll have to move back to Pakistan, where you can be a perfectly legal asshole.

The fight against woman-loathing Sharia law has to happen here. Good on you, Texas.

‘“How are the Saudis?” I asked.

“Very nice,” he replied. “Very understanding.”

A senior Saudi figure had approached the Israeli dentist, he said, congratulated him for saving the pilot, and thanked him. Then the Saudi took the dentist’s hand and walked with him.

The passenger tried to explain the gesture to me. Holding hands, he wrote, was a local expression of warmth.’

Well, UD wouldn’t be quite as explicit as The New Republic about the nature of most of Paxton’s scandals… But they are definitely… mounting scandals.

Just ask Memphis.

When they tell you your kid has to get off a car (there he is in red), you pull out your gun and threaten to kill them.

Give Jack Smith Schmitt, Schmitt, Schmitt. Don’t quit, Schmitt. Keep it up.

These very public proceedings reveal the moral degeneracy of MAGA politicians — on view most recently (remember?) as plagiarist Rand Paul tormented Anthony Fauci.

I only have the stomach to link to what the freaky guy from Louisiana said to Smith during the proceedings.

Sane, rational witnesses like Fauci and Smith create a striking contrast between drooling idiots and serious adults, and it’s there for all of us to see. Look carefully. Don’t look away. And for fuck sake, vote in the upcoming elections.

… in creek full of shit; ends up covered in shit.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6117781-eric-schmitt-jack-smith-hawks-hawkeyes-fani-willis

This appeared back in 2017, when the perverts at Penn State tortured and killed Timothy Piazza.

What happened to Timothy Piazza was a predictable tragedy, and there will be more unless we end Greek life for good. I make no claims that it will be easy. Fraternities have dominated campuses, defied authorities and rebuffed efforts at suppression for nearly 200 years. But in that time we have ended slavery, given women the vote and put men on the moon. Of course we can get rid of fraternities. College presidents, administrators and trustees just have to muster the will to do it. As for the rest of us, we need to keep pressure on them to do so, and keep counting the bodies until they act.

So as you follow what the perverts at Cornell did to the woman they gang-raped, remember: We can get rid of them.

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Cornell begins to respond.

https://theonion.com/cornell-vows-that-rapists-will-be-forced-to-write-much-longer-essays-in-the-future/

The Council of Europe in this way marks its disgust at coercive woman-erasure. Bravo.

“Unfortunately in our society right now, we live in the ‘look at me’ society… It’s about the team and focus on the team, and not so much ‘look at me.’”

Coach blames society for player simulating pulling out his cock and pissing.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/steve-sarkisian-blames-society-for-colin-simmonss-bizarre-unsportsmanlike-conduct-foul

https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/texas-longhorns-colin-simmons-vulgar-sack-celebration-inexcusable-christian-athlete

The last time this happened, the shooter was six years old. Now a shooter more than twice that age has gone and done it again.

Given this latest shooter’s advanced age, I doubt the story will get much play. An armed six year old would-be murderer is much more newsworthy than an armed thirteen year old would-be murderer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Abby_Zwerner

https://abcnews.com/US/13-year-custody-allegedly-shooting-middle-school-teacher/story?id=136820476

Yeah, usually they’re, like, successive. Over a few days.