Another high-profile British columnist doesn’t get why her country continues to carry the black mark of the burqa. “Whenever I see them, I never, ever get over the way that I feel. I feel livid — ragingly angry — like I have to do something about it. But what?”

Just exactly what you are doing. Write angrily against it. Continue to despise “the insistent, malicious arguing for separate laws, separate schools, separate communities — for, essentially, ghettos. For the headscarf on female children and the ongoing, mendacious support for the burqa and the niqab, using our own liberalism as a weapon against us.”

Persist in pointing out that there’s nothing liberal about a state openly affiliating with – indeed subsidizing – an organization of cruel fanatics. “I would like us to stop giving tacit support to female oppression from the youngest age — if you have any doubts about agency, let me tell you: there is no way a child who cannot even read yet is able to choose a headscarf.”

“No one wants to curb the poisonous love-in with one of the most woman-hating ideologies on earth.” Actually, lots of people do. But they are afraid of being classed with the right wing. They haven’t noticed that the strongest opposition to the burqa in many of the countries the writer lists comes from the left.

Much of England remains in the look away look away position relative to the burqa. Sartre called what they’re doing bad faith. Liberal states that don’t want to be in bad faith ban the burqa.

England will get there eventually. Honest writers like Camilla Long help it on its way.

The Guardian looks at our exploding familicides.

She is the voice of America, the Kate Smith of our time.

Her $25 million Hamptons estate recently sold for 5.8 mill at auction. She refuses to leave it. God Bless America.

She’s the woman in the blue tee. Starting at 1:40. SO PROUD.

Police say Corey B. Ward pointed a handgun at people on College Street before officers found the weapon buried in mulch.

Will be named “Lindsey” in honor of Lindsey Graham.

‘Here is the earl on his Diana book, which he has called Swan Song: “At heart, this is a brother’s simple tribute to an extraordinary sister.” Mmm. And simply bound, very simply, into paginated form as a precious, simple keepsake that also functions as one of Penguin Random House’s lead titles for autumn and the run-in to Christmas. Favourite charming tribute from today’s serialisation in the Mail? Probably the bit when Diana drags Spencer for lunch in the London restaurant San Lorenzo to announce: “My husband is in love with his valet”. Nkay.

… [J]ust as it is possible to simply get up in the morning and decide not to post something on social media that makes you look like a complete shit, it is also possible to simply not do a whole book of this stuff.’

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Marina Hyde on Charles Spencer’s new book about Diana.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master

[The loss of art is quite another matter]

So many things seem filled with the intent

To be lost that their loss is no disaster

[Surely not “God Made the Firmament”?]

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[I lost a hall, a lovely one. And, vaster,

Oratorios are gone, their choral spent.

I miss them, and their loss is a disaster.]

The writer forgets raging misogyny.

One of the billionaires whose support put Bo French over the top in his primary runs a church where women may not speak and certainly may not have anything to do with the church beyond silently appearing at Yahweh’s homestead.

They must cover their sinful flesh, with special attention to cleavage.

UD can’t detect much difference, culturally, between this and Wahhabism, which Big Daddy hates with as murderous a passion as his boy Bo does. Yet he shares misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, etc., with reactionary Islam…

… at Chapel Hill beyond belief.

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“I’m hoping this will be the start of a conversation amongst the board members of how we can remain competitive in athletics, but not, in the long run, at the expense of the academic mission.”

LOLOLOLOL

Another fascinating auction, this one Michael Dell’s never-used Boston penthouse, bought ten years ago and empty all that time. He can’t unload it, so the opening bid is 6.5 mill – a forty percent discount over the asking price all those years ago.

”The parents had several guns, including an AR-15 rifle, that were stored unsecured.”

Cuz you never know when the final battle’s gonna blow, so you need the big artillery at the ready.

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But, see, guns are many things. Aren’t they? Your paranoid parents see them as apocalypse-busters; you, not so much. As you get more and more pissed with ma and pa, you eye the family arsenal with affection, for therein lies your revenge for the disciplinary shit the folks dish out.

Maybe to a non-15 year old, slaughtering the whole family seems excessive, but presumably the thinking here is that once you’ve reduced your primary targets to shuddering humps of blood, you’ll need to deal with four hysterical children running around shrieking while one of them calls the police or runs to the neighbors. They’ll have to go too, which means that you create a scene every bit as apocalyptic as your parents predicted.

I mean, they had in mind government and social, while you meant domestic, but the result, as far as your parents went, was the same: the sudden bloody shutting down of their entire world.

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As for what the legal system representing by far the world’s most gunned-up location will do with an unstable kid who plucks an unsecured household annihilator and does a doomsday… Well, it’s a slow process. Two years after he did his thing, the courts are just beginning formal proceedings. Should he be tried as an adult? That’s the latest, and UD assumes the answer will be yes. But what does she know.

Hm. Hm.

… Florida Man.

Baa baa Bo French

They checked your DNA

How you look Euro

We really cannot say.

One side is Arab

A quarter’s Chinese

The rest is Texas incest

Please telephone police