‘Will $150 Billion in Investment Finally Help Louisiana Grow its Population?’

Not if you keep shooting it to death.

One of Denver’s most notorious abattoirs doesn’t get shut down, no matter how much blood is shed.

‘Yet another shooting here…’

‘Nice place to get lit up and by lit up I mean shot…’

‘At the end of the night end up getting locked inside for a short time because something was going on outside the club. However, I will say their security guard Mike was phenomenal and great. Helped me get my friend into our car safely…’

Patron reviews say it all, don’t they? But no one in Denver gives a shit, so the POPOPOPOPOPOP keeps popping along.

“Easy access to guns and Arizona’s weak gun safety laws have continued to put all of us at risk.”

Tucson’s mayor, surveying her city’s bloody streets after another mundane massacre, wonders why morons with magnums still rule her world.

And then there’s the American economy…

Demand for Mansions in the Billionaire Haven Palm Beach Is ‘Unrelenting’

Learning How to Argue from Trump

So on the question of [multiple sexes] being “settled science,” as the AAA said at the time, there was a survey in 2022, published in the journal Forensic Anthropology, that asked forensic anthropologists about this question, and 42 percent of them said they agree that sex is binary, and 56 percent disagreed that it’s binary. So that ratio would seem to indicate that, in the field, the question hadn’t actually been settled, and I was wondering how you explain that.

I don’t believe in opinion research… I just don’t trust opinion polling.

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Rational deliberation from the prez of the American Anthropological Association.

Whether they’re speaking Ultraorthodox or Ultramuslim, we all recognize the international language of Asshole.

They refuse to sit next to women on planes, and I guess sometimes airlines accommodate their assholery; but when they don’t, things can get very bad very quickly. The latest incident featured a Sharia maniac slapping a female crew member who attempted to reason with him when he did his no-women-next-to-me thing. He was arrested.

Trump Diversion Syndrome
‘Their website advertised the product as having “everything you need to build your own Glock style pistol from the comfort of your home,” noting the weapon could be assembled by “nearly anyone with a brain,” according to the lawsuit.’

And, once comfortably assembled, it can comfortably blow out your brain.

Indeed the ease and comfort of gun suicide is one reason its incidence in this country is soaring.

You can even be a psychologically fragile 18 year old and all you have to do is send away for your very own suicide kit — no questions asked! — and bingo you’re out of the running. Too easy…

What a difference a day makes! / 274,000 little dollars. / Makes us all hoot and holler / Cuz you gave them to Ken!

SING IT

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Ken’s campaign looked all grody

The AG was all wet

Then Ken told big Cody

He’d deliver the threat

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Yes what a difference Cody’s bucks made

Cody just forked ‘em over

Ken’s campaign got an upgrade

Now he’s living in clover

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It’s heaven when you

Find a shakedown on your menu

What a difference a day makes

And the difference is TTU

‘a lot of biker gangs there … [i] was going [for awhile] and stopped cause I kinda like my life’

Whether hookah or biker, lounge or breastaurant, the best way to haul out all your guns and kill people is to pack into one of these epicenters of the violent mentally retarded. Country music and cheap beer provide the atmospherics, the specifically American gestalt, for the ripping open of more tattooed flesh than you can shake a stick of numbing cream at.

A biker bar in Connecticut is the latest abattoir; on Facebook (see this post’s title) a knowledgeable local explains why she stopped going to the place.

La Condition Humaine …

… is such that sometimes our suffering in dying overwhelms, and we want it to end.

France has now joined ten countries, plus some states/regions in the US and Germany, where assisted dying is legal.

‘For $6,000 […], Blade Air will ferry six people [to an airport near the World Cup stadium] on a four-minute helicopter flight from Manhattan.’

America’s modern Minutemen.

“Fifty rounds in the middle of the city? Unthinkable.”

Oh come now.

‘The average midterm grade in [a] professor’s economics class was 96. It’s usually in the 60s to 80s. He made the final in-person, and 27 [out of 86] students dropped the class.’

LOL.

AI.

‘Week-long writing retreats that Easton’s Nook also operates several times a year at a four-star couples resort and spa in Negril, Jamaica were also covered by Rutgers [Newark] for some faculty members.’

This blog has spent long years covering the supreme moral and financial corruption of Rutgers New Brunswick. Rutgers Newark has gotten lost in the shuffle, but now in its own small way that campus is making a contribution to the filth.

One of its deans seems to be self-dealing, getting the university to pay for faculty retreats at businesses she happens to own.

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UPDATE: WHYY has the numbers.

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