Cuz it’s in super-affluent Bethesda? That doesn’t keep its vicinity from being all shot up. The four people involved will turn out to be (I predict) Walter Johnson students representing warring gangs, or hey maybe a few guys had a bit of an argument over lunch and they took it and their guns (you don’t think WJ students carry weapons?) outside, where they had at it.

If I’m right, it’s so disgusting that WJ administrators, who will turn out to know about some of these shits, allowed them to continue to attend the school.

A former professor at Penn

Thought, “Robots are evil!” So then

She planted her ass

So the bots could not pass

And now she is off to the pen.

… bring out the big guns!

Nihilists are funny until they start chewing the scenery.

Yuck.

Kate Manne, a ban-the-frats person who teaches at Cornell.

The stunningly ugly events in France, says a writer for the left wing Guardian, clear the way for Marine Le Pen’s victory in the next presidential elections.

Indeed, all of the polls show her with a commanding lead.

Some progressives here express incredulity that Le Pen might, this time, go all the way; but anyone paying attention to Le Pen’s steely rise, her decades of focused and masterful politicking, isn’t surprised. Even without nation-destroying riots cheered on by her left wing rival Mélenchon – riots which, the Guardian columnist notes, benefit only Le Pen – the National Rally represents the most popular party in the country.

She ain’t got my endorsement; but having watched her for years, I’d say she’s the consummate politician, steadfastly building credibility while Paris nihilistically burns.

How clever.

Adorable.

… advocates for the public execution of all death penalty prisoners. Its president, pastor Doug Wilson – already famous for demanding that women be stripped of the vote – explains that  “executions in the Scriptures were public.”

Revealed truth leads Christians in all things, including this one, writes Wilson, and the idea of carrying out beheadings (Romans 13:4) “in the recesses of a prison somewhere in the middle of the night” is morally repugnant, as well as heretical.

PUB-EX’s most prominent member, Pete Hegseth, has, with Wilson, launched an all-state tour to introduce the organization to the American public. Event organizers plan to distribute swag bags which will include candy-rich severed heads.

Cuz a wittle school needs to put aside a bit for a rainy day.

If true, ol’ Mom belongs in jail. Let’s see if the Oregon courts can get her there.

Sec’y Megadeth says he’ll try again, maybe with Amb. Guilfoyle, once her case works its way through the courts.

Duh.

Shooting your whole family to death with malice aforethought gets you a ticket to adult court.

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UD can squeeze out maybe a drop of pity that the killer ended up with nutty stupid defense lawyers who appear to believe that if your parents are fervent fundamentalist Christians you get to get away with slaughtering them and the kids.

“He was taught about the illuminati that it was real, that 9/11 was a conspiracy and he believed it,” defense attorney Amy Parker said. “His parents told him the government and social system would collapse and so the kids had go-bags packed to move to Idaho at a moment’s notice to be prepared to rise up against a tyrannical government and protect the family.”

Idaho go-bags! Where’s my gun??

The arrest of their most-touted recent cornerback recruit (I can’t – too icky for 8 AM – esp. the bit about the bloodstained woman they found… read the article yourself.) is a singularly powerful instance of Nietzsche’s core concept of eternal recurrence. Events simply and horribly repeat and repeat and repeat in the human realm, and so for instance we can read a long 2014 NYT Magazine article about FSU’s total moral and legal degradation via football, or we can search the archives of this blog and find decades of the same, and this is how we understand what it looks like when a university throughout its history doesn’t give a shit about bringing dangerous people to its campus and celebrating them. Again and again and again.