Ah, Shreveport. Ah, Louisiana. Insane massacrists go down as easy as a mint julep in ol’ Shreveport, Land of the Rising Gun.

Dominedominedomine let’s pray our little heads off.

Ahhhh. That was great.

Back to the pistol range.

Tim King, the former leader of the Urban Prep charter schools who resigned in 2022 amid sexual misconduct allegations, now faces federal charges alleging he embezzled more than $100,000 in school funding.

As one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, it’s constantly scrambling to find replacements for filthy high-ranking officials stupid enough to get caught.

Makarios Lazaridis was up this month to pinch-hit for one of the Farming Scandal officials suddenly out of a job, but now he’s out too because of his peculiarly Greek personal history.

Last job he had was high-ranking science advisor to the New Democracy education minister; but once elevated to post-farm-scandal Deputy Ag Minister, he attracted enough press attention for someone to notice that he didn’t even have a legitimate BA, much less a PhD.

Oopsies.

I mean ούπς.

But – in the sort of detail your blogueuse LOVES – when Lazaridis left his expert scientist job, he was “instantly [replaced] by his wife.”

Instantly, mes petites!

After last year’s shooting, Davis CA has prepared for its carefree outing with:

A fleet of drones

Extra police

Doubled event staff people

Increased penalties

Alcohol ban

No special event permits in the vicinity

Designated safety enhancement zones

Sniff-sniff. I mean… AS IF. As if Ken Griffin, who as of 2019 (this list must be way out of date) owns

the most expensive home in America, a $238-million Manhattan penthouse. According to Bloomberg, he already owns two floors of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Chicago ($30 million), a Miami Beach penthouse ($60 million), another Chicago penthouse ($58.75 million) and another apartment in Manhattan ($40 million).

… as if this guy is going to lower himself to respond to the mayor of NY choosing to announce “a [proposed] annual fee on luxury properties valued above $5 million whose owners do not live in New York full-time” while standing in front of Griffin’s always empty four-floor penthouse.

Griffin did feel compelled to make a statement awhile back, when people noticed the emptiness.

[His apartment is] not a short-term investment, but a home where [Ken] Griffin will spend considerable time, said Zia Ahmed, his spokesman.

I don’t follow the guy around, but far as I can tell he’s spent somewhere between zero and zero days in his warm authentic inviting home.

Construction crews rebuilding the sepulchre to Griffin’s invisibility standard have, however, moved in for the long haul, and neighbors have not been happy, all these years, about the noise.

Given all this civic yumminess, it’s no surprise that Mamdani chose Griffin’s sarcophagus as ground zero.

 The practice is not religious and thus not protected by Article 25 or 26. Even if it were, it cannot be constitutionally protected; it is a form of torture that results in the permanent dismemberment of a girl-child’s body, leading to long-term psychological and physical suffering, and can result in death. The Court must separate the constitutionality of FGM from issues of religious freedom…

The respondents argue that FGM is “an integral part” of the Bohra religion. This is patently untrue. Even if it were true, no claim of religious freedom can justify a violation of bodily integrity, human dignity, or fundamental rights. Under the SC’s jurisprudence, even if a practice is intrinsic to a religion, it cannot supersede other essential fundamental rights, particularly the right to life. The respondents argue that the right to life is not implicated by FGM as it is voluntary. This is a flawed interpretation, as consent has no bearing on the right to life. And no child can provide informed consent at age seven…

Hope now rests with [the Indian Supreme Court] to expressly reaffirm the grave illegality of this practice.

Maya Nirula

… and now this.

A breakaway radical Christian sect has, in the wake of super-natalist Viktor Orban’s defeat, turned its attention to super-natalist JD Vance, and in particular to his wife’s latest pregnancy. The belief seems to be that Vance’s wife is carrying the Second Coming of Christ, which will mark the end of the world. Crèches featuring the Second Lady cradling her newborn have begun appearing in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee; and Usha Vancelike variants of Mariolatric shrines can be seen in churches in those states. We’ll keep an eye on developments.

We’ve followed the hilarious university system in that state for years, but consider the legal system.

MAN ON SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR MURDER CHARGED WITH GUN-RELATED [OFFENSES] FOLLOWING NIGHTCLUB FIGHT

Yes the lad seems to have killed a couple of people, but the judge deemed this a minor sort of charge and released him with an ankle bracelet.

“ [A local attorney described] the state’s ankle monitor system as outdated and said it doesn’t have live tracking like the federal system.”

Judges that let accused killers go free; technology that doesn’t track them.

phone case.

… why Hungary’s schools are failing, why its hospitals are crumbling, why it has become the poorest country in the European Union.  Victor Orban maintained a sophisticated propaganda apparatus to reframe what were ultimately not policy failures really at all but  the entirely predictable results of a system designed to enrich his cronies. There’s only so much propaganda can do when a citizen can’t get medical care in a hospital but knows their prime minister has exotic animals roaming a palatial country estate.”

Wowsa. An answer that really packs it in. Not many people can offer so much substance, detail, and argument in an elegant way.

David Pressman, ambassador to Hungary under Obama.

If, as predicted, he suffers a crushing defeat, what will happen to all the state funds dedicated to keeping Hungarian women pregnant 24/7?

A second grader brought a loaded gun to school in Swansea Mass., on a Friday, and showed it to schoolmates.

The principal knew of it and did nothing. He decided to wait until Monday.

Police got an anonymous tip on Monday and came to the school that day.

The armed student lied to the principal (who spoke to the student on Monday) and said he brought no gun of any kind to school.

The parents of the armed student lied to police about having firearms in the house.

After the police found five firearms in the house, some loaded, the father of the armed student said he forgot about having five weapons, and said that he was not licensed to carry.

The parents have been charged with “multiple firearms violations, plus two counts of reckless endangerment of a child.”

India’s Dawoodi Bohra community is wild about clit-stripping, and won’t stop with the dirty knife thing until authorities can put their leaders in jail.

The question of what to do with this cult’s enthusiasm is finally before the Supreme Court in New Delhi, which will determine if, as the DB argues, cutting off babies’ clitorises is “essential to our religion.”

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Quite a religion.

I mean, far out.

… steps from the Georgetown Library, where I just gave a lecture on the essay.