“The unintended consequence of a ban [on the sale of Nazi items] is not that suddenly that kind of market will totally dry up […]. You run the risk that this material will actually just disappear for good in the wrong channels.”

It’s an interesting question. What about buying North Korean propaganda posters, which are rather popular in the west? There is no more disgusting fascistic regime in the world; and to make it worse, the regime profits from some of these sales. You can buy glossy posters of Pol Pot for your dorm room if you want, and obviously Stalin – a bigger butcher than Hitler – is available everywhere.

These markets represent what Robert Nozick called capitalist acts between consenting adults, and, as Weber’s comment suggests, it would be impossible to truly police them.

None of which is to defend all market transactions as legally acceptable; but this particular one, I think, gets a pass.

But Tennessee has one outmoded little law barring guns from college campuses. UD has no idea why the legislature has overlooked this embarrassment, which is no doubt keeping Memphis from being the most dangerous city in the world, and she feels confident there’s legislation, as we speak, removing the restriction.

Meanwhile, poor Christopher Stokes, Univ Memphis football player! Speeding through campus in your big SUV, with your big Glock, would seem a common enough activity for a Memphian. Big cars and big guns – don’t get any more USAan than that…

But the police arrested the lad (he’s twenty), and the school threw him off the team and took down his player webpage and all. Texas Tech, here he comes!

Lois Hugentober, a longtime employee, got out of her car, “pulled out a revolver, and leveled the laser-sighted weapon on a group of bicyclists at an intersection.”

When police caught up with her at her office, she “punched a wall in her supervisor’s office so forcibly it caused a clock to fall from the wall.”

This is why these people need to be kept in Syria. Off she goes onto the free streets of Melbourne, to work her magic. The newspaper article describes her, before anything else, as a bride and a grandmother. If this were about an ISIS man, would his first description be groom and grandfather? UD’s blood boils.

Other well-meaning courts in other well-meaning countries will do the same — I guess because holding Yazidi teenagers as slaves is no big deal.

And what’s really idiotic is that these courts clearly think women can’t be terrorists. Women can’t focus their minds enough to evolve a terrorist ideology. This chick said what they all do and the court bought it – I never really, you know, believed … what does ISIS believe again? It’s only women who are little by little being allowed to walk free. Everyone’s fine with male terrorists staying in Syrian prisons. But women are too stupid to be real terrorists, so let them go.

Economist Gabriel Zucman, who teaches at Berkeley, points out that

California billionaires’ wealth has increased approximately 144% from 2023-25 and totals approximately $2.31 trillion as of May… [F]rom 2023-25, California billionaires only paid approximately 0.2% of their wealth in state individual income tax annually.

America’s grotesque wealth inequality erodes its polity.

“Billionaires are the group [which[ has been doing the best economically, with their wealth exploding in recent years and decades, and they are also the group that pays the least in taxes relative to their economic income,” [Zucman’s colleague Emmanuel] Saez said in an email. “Therefore, the time is ripe to make them contribute more to the public good.”

Its leftwing government will soon likely ban the Muslim call to prayer, where men only are summoned several times a a day, loudly, to their religious duty. Denmark already restricts burqas, niqabs, and religious dress in schools. Like France, Quebec, and other self-respecting liberal democracies, it knows that the price of freedom and equality is eternal vigilance.

The [immigration] minister’s comments reflect concerns in Denmark that the public broadcasting of the adhan represents more than a simple religious practice. The adhan is performed five times each day and is intended to summon Muslims to prayer. Critics argue that broadcasting it over loudspeakers imposes a religious message on the wider public, including those who do not belong to the faith.

The controversy is further intensified by the meaning of the words being broadcast. The adhan can be translated as “God is great, there is no God but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Come to prayer.” For opponents, the wording goes beyond a simple call to worship by publicly proclaiming Islam’s religious claims.

Plus he just beat up one of the Sherwins. They don’t make men of God like this outside of Louisiana.

Mao said it in 1927, and Berkeley County South Carolina Planning Commissioner James Sineath echoes the sentiment in 2026. He didn’t like something a citizen said during a recent meeting, so he threatened him with a gun.

Lil ol Anaconda MT ain’t even got 10,000 people in it, but it can sure shoot up bars! Life there is one post-bar-killing fundraiser after another … which is no small feat, cuz they have to compete with the post-gun-suicide fundraisers.

Anaconda County has the highest suicide rate in Montana, which itself has the highest suicide rate in the United States. So believe, sister, believe! Believe that when

Montana has among the worst gun laws in the country and has an especially high rate of household firearm ownership. The Treasure State has one of the highest rates of gun suicides in the country. Montana’s state legislature has repeatedly made the state’s weak laws even weaker. In 2021, state lawmakers eliminated the permit requirement for carrying a concealed gun in public and required colleges and universities to allow guns on their campuses.

— when you got all that going for you, believe you can turn your state red. I mean haha you’re already red politically — I mean you can turn the whole fuckin thing into one big bloody head after another exploding all over the place, babe. You just gotta believe.

… Bloomsday.

Today, it’s ranked #198. Search this blog for TEXAS TECH to find out all the reasons why.

TTU’s slogan:

WE’RE SO MUCH MORE THAN BRENDAN SORSBY!

My bad. In an earlier post, I described veteran game-gambler Brendan Sorsby as on his way to the ethics-free NFL, having been evacuated from the cloaca of college football.

Now it turns out that even the NFL won’t take a guy who bets on his own games!

This puts the ball back in Texas Tech’s court. They love him there, and did everything they could to clear him to play; but eventually the contempt and disgust of the world forced them to give him up.

Anyway, they figured the NFL would take him.. But hey it didn’t, see, so this is TTU’s big chance to draw their sweet babe back into their arms and make him theirs again… God knows a guy like Sorsby is made for that school and that school alone…

Heidegger, anticipating this photo, which UD took on her city walk this morning.

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The barricades are to keep crowds from gathering to celebrate the re-opening to light of John F. Kennedy’s name.

The guy who did the Reflecting Pool work.

So there’s the university angle, which interests us here at University Diaries (though lack of qualifications earning a person a job at a Spanish or Italian university isn’t exactly news — that’s one of the ways your big whole entire modern rich country gets exactly one university on a respectable position on the international ‘best of’ lists, and that one – U of Barcelona – only staggers up to #88 on one list, and #145 on another). But the Spanish PM’s now-arrested wife’s expanded list of misdeeds is far sexier than squatting on a university position for which you don’t qualify: ‘embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds.’

UD admits to relief at this bigtime Spanish corruption story. She has missed the almost-fall of the monarchy (King Juan Carlos; his daughter; his daughter’s ex-husband) due to breathtaking corruption. So now she has this.