In the good old days, Tariq Ramadan lectured non-Muslims on Islam’s beautiful treatment of women, and I guess a lot of people bought it cuz Oxford, televised debates, best-selling books on the subject, etc. etc. When women started complaining that he was raping and torturing them, one of his friends was shocked, and mounted this moving defense:

“That [Tariq Ramadan] had many mistresses, that he consulted [porn] sites, that girls were brought to the hotel at the end of his lectures, that he invited them to undress, that some resisted and that he could become violent and aggressive, yes, but I have never heard of rapes, I am stunned,” [Bernard Godard] told French magazine L’Obs.

Compelling as this defense was, courts were undaunted, and just today he was sentenced to three years in prison, two suspended.

[Massachusetts psychiatrist Gustavo] Kinrys billed insurers 382 days of more than 24 hours worth of psychotherapy services in a single day, including one day in July 2017 when he claimed he had provided hour-long psychotherapy sessions to 70 different patients, all while outside the United States on vacation. 

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Does he still teach at Harvard?

… flaunt it!

Then go to jail.

“Nir spent more money than God,” said a former HFZ employee. “No one was clear where the money was coming from. What success had the company realized that we were unaware of?” Feldman’s complaint against Meir alleges that Meir’s monthly American Express bill often exceeded $400,000. Meir spent hundreds of thousands on wine and kept a stable of luxury cars including five Mercedes G-Class wagons and a 1996 Porsche 911 Turbo valued at $300,000.

Bad boy.

…ever rings in that Wagnerian manner.’

Vlad hears Prigozhin at the door.

Ken Paxton objects to his impeachment.

… Alcock.

Dick Cheney is certainly right; and it’s not just Trump. Sometimes the entire Republican political establishment looks like cowards.

But at least they’ve got Josh Hawley: The man who stood up to Finland and Sweden!

… U.S. News & World Report announced that it had “unranked” Columbia University, which had been in a three-way tie for the No. 2 spot in the 2022 edition of Best Colleges, after being unable to verify the underlying data submitted by the university…

The Ivy League university said then that it would not participate in the next rankings because it was investigating accusations by one of its own mathematics professors that the No. 2 ranking was based on inaccurate and misleading data.

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Background.

“That, having denied plaintiff’s urgent petition that the Vice President of the United States be forced to personally decide the outcome of presidential elections, the court immediately grant Representative Gohmert the following injunctive relief;

that every American female who voted Democratic be forced to suck my dick;

that Jill Biden have the title “Dr.” forcibly withdrawn from her name, after which see above;

that the two Kims (Cardashian; Goowheelfoil) be forced to assume the Presidency/Vice Presidency within the next two weeks;

after which see first clause;

that Steven Lubet and his so-called Rule 11 be forced to suck my dick;

that Mike Leach be fired from Mississippi State and forced to coach at my alma mater, Texas A&M.

Respectfully submitted, in lieu of the streets running with blood,

Louis Buller Gohmert Jr.“

“There was no way anybody in the administrative office of [his prep] school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,” a former official at The Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, told me. “His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted. It was a little bit disappointing because there were at the time other kids we thought should really get in on the merits, and they did not.”

In the wake of Jared lecturing other Americans on how they really need to work harder to succeed, a fellow Harvard grad, from a poor family, enlightens Jared on what it takes for non-rich and non-connected students to get in to Harvard. Read it all.

Should be 140 but I’ll take it. Settle in to watch DJT do a superduper extended version of the Black Knight.

Trump criticised Obama for only paying 20.5% tax in 2012. A new NYT report shows Trump paid no income tax that year.

“Greatest tax cheat in US history.”