Yeah, he’s pissed that, in the wake of the Ceuta disaster, Italy has suspended its Schengen open borders agreement with Spain. But listen. It’s optics, ain’t it? The whole world has been riveted, for the last twenty-four hours, to scenes of thousands of young men (only young men) surging into Spain from Morocco cuz Spain can’t control its borders. One can know that more “irregulars” enter Italy than enter Spain; but here one can see the intrusion – into Spain – so so graphically.

The overwhelmed police; the inevitable armed forces. 57 dead in the chaos. A massive embarrassment for Spain. A massive gift to Trump and Co.

Four months old… prominent imam …. Certain words jump out at you, don’t they?

Or maybe they don’t. Amazingly few people know about, much less care about, the global grotesquerie of FGM.

UNC’s football manager is “the highest-paid general manager in the sport at $1.5 million.” The money went right down the drain from the beginning: the team has been quite shitty. But now he’s not even working for his salary – somebody complained to HR about him and he’s been suspended while they discover whatever… An affair with a teenage staffer. Recruiting violations up the wazoo. Harassment. Fucking with a player’s professors to get him out of schoolwork — a proud UNC tradition. Could be any number of things.

Meanwhile no one remembers that the loser ten million dollar a year coach and the loser million dollar manager (the manager who’s about to add a scandal to a pathetic win/loss record) have something somewhere to do with a university.

… has become all the rage in the land of 500 million firearms. If, like Colin Gray, you get excited at the spectacle of your psychotic kid plastering his room with photos of mass killers and then letting rip at his high school with one of the guns you’ve pressed on him, you can be convicted of murder alongside him.

AI tells you this if you search FAUCI HERBERT RAPP. Herbert Rapp was UD’s father, and I can imagine him staring wide-eyed at his eminent colleague being publicly destroyed by Trump/Paul.

That’s an official statement from a university vice-chancellor – and not just any university, but scandal-plagued UNC Chapel Hill, which has every reason to show that it’s a university and not a filthy sports factory. But when your highest representatives can’t write the English language…AND HE’S VC FOR COMMUNICATIONS.

As for the latest sickening sports scandal at that benighted school — as the illiterate VC seems to be trying to say, they ain’t talking. It involves the football team’s general manager, however, so here’s hoping it’s real real yummy.

Your venerable Bite of Seattle food festival confirms that you’re just like the rest of America: You can’t gather in crowds without getting shot. The two 14 year olds (or whatever – that’s an age estimate) shooting at each other in the middle of your sushi sampling will always be top of mind for you now. You will stop attending anything that calls itself a festival because in this country festivals = shooting galleries. Parades, fireworks displays, protest marches — you name it. A real bloody mess.

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UPDATE: Look at that. I was off by one year.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

The government relations director at the Heritage Foundation was caught with a loaded gun plus cocaine and fentanyl as he entered the Russell Senate Office Building last week. He told police the drugs were “prescribed by a medical professional.” Dr Feelgood!

On this beautiful Saturday evening, tons of townspeople gathered to open a new meditation park, on land donated by Laetitia Yeandle.

I used to watch Laetitia, a distinguished Renaissance scholar, march purposively by my house of a morning, on her way to the Folger Library. Six feet tall, bent forward with haste and, well, purposiveness, she clutched in each of her hands briefcases bursting with samples of sixteenth century paleography.

Laetitia woke up each morning intensely focused on her work; she marched back up Rokeby at the end of the day with the very same focus. She obviously loved what she did.

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In its way as important as her contribution to Renaissance scholarship was her gift of land for the gorgeous park that bears her name. Garrett Parkers are blessed with trees and parks, and here is another quiet communal corner, with winding paths and wooden benches, encircled by vast old timbers.

But the gift of land is just the start — the first gathering there, like gatherings to come, was a moment of communion, of warm recognition of the people who love Garrett Park the way she did.

I met a new neighbor at the inauguration; I met her longhaired corgi.

And this of course was Laetitia’s real gift — an inspiring place to meet and meet again the people who share UD’s ever-renascent town.

… But weawy???

Now that richly variegated criminal Tom Goldstein has been sent where he belongs – jail, for six years – prepare for What a fall was there! commentary from similarly highly credentialed elites here in the Bethesda/Chevy Chase world UD and Goldstein share. Shared.

But ain’t no kind of fall when you were already trash. Far as I can make out, the dude was always a greedy little shit with no discernible morality — the sort of person who must have enjoyed, as much as Bernie Madoff did, the knowledge that he was ripping off the world while tooling around in one of his Bentleys.

He made clear enough that exceptional people like himself were not subject to laws.

Read his list of crimes and try telling me that I should get all Shakespeare-tragic-like about a garden variety sociopath.

These plasma collection locations concentrate crates of guns, gallons of alcohol, and gazillions of intellectually disabled gangs.

Just the other day, UD posted about a killing field like this in Denver. She was confident that no matter how many next-day pressure washers Denver had to bring to its sidewalks, the city’s bond would remain with the bloody.

But lo! There seems to be a body/gunshot limit. 66 shots from at least two people engaged in warfare among innocent passersby — not just, say, 50 shots from one guy spraying a crowd cuz he was denied admission to the abattoir… that wouldn’t be enough to trigger a city shutdown… but 66 fired among multiple combatants was in fact enough to rouse the city from its sleep.

Funny how the club has no comment and the local press doesn’t use the word. Everybody knows there’s no better place – duh – to do the deed than a gun club.

The Doctor is IN! And your capacity to experience even a twinge of sexual pleasure is out.

Dude actually advertises that he performs “female circumcision.” This ain’t no peasant woman with a rusty knife in some forest clearing – this is an actual MD with a pleasant office and the whole nine… er … centimeters…

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Update.

Nowheresville Fremont has been smuggling proselytizers into its public schools, and someone there seems to have complained to the FFRF.

One of the Christian groups is the famed Gideons, whose bibles burst out of your hotel drawer. The Gids were doing what they do, unloading masses of Big Books onto their captive student audience.

The other group pilgrimmed around the school, itinerant preachers looking for 15 year old souls to save. Muslim souls? Atheist souls? Fuck! That’s the reason we’re preaching, dummy! It bugs us that they’re all going to hell.

Another save, back in 2022.