May 3rd, 2025
“My worry about this whole thing is that it’s going to [intensify] the stigma that’s already been happening with lacrosse, that these boys are seen as degenerates and the whole community is just not good.” 

It’s true that we’ve had a field day with lacrosse and sadism on this blog. Far as I can figure, the deep alcoholism endemic to the sport, its privileged-folk provenance, and the near-universal tendency toward hazing in high school and college athletics, produces extreme specimens like George Huguely, and less extreme but still very dangerous people like the guys on the Syracuse high school team.

Huguely, currently rotting in jail, was a U Va lacrosse player who got drunk and beat his girlfriend to death:

In truth, there are many places in [lacrosse’s] culture where nights like the one Huguely had at Washington and Lee University in November 2008 – when he was Tasered after resisting arrest and shouting slurs at a black, female officer who had found him stumbling into oncoming traffic – garner acceptance and credibility. As with other sports teams and fraternities, stories like these are traded like war stories among lacrosse players; they’re the battle ribbons of a culture that enjoys hard-drinking and recklessness. They’re a kind of proof of one’s weekend warrior bona fides.

One thing to remember, as we talk a bit more about the latest degeneracy, is that the lads have guns now. When you add guns to alcoholism, entitlement, and sadism, you get what people refer to as extreme hazing, which is simply extreme sadism. Among the very young. Sixteen. Fifteen.

Aggression and alcohol abuse, of course, are hardly the province of lacrosse alone when it comes to men’s [high school and] college athletics. But, when it comes alongside lacrosse, there’s an implied element of absolute indifference and arrogance as well.

We’re into group psychopathy at this point, an unbounded Lord of the Flies viciousness. As a team you derive splendid new forms of human abuse and let their effects amuse you as you film your victims in order to share their agony with other sadists. (Sadism, you know, is very common.) Or just to watch your weeping pleading shrieking victims over and over in your bedroom. Lots of hazing – fraternity as well as sports – now involves threats with guns; but we can certainly anticipate actual killing with guns in the hazing setting quite soon.

May 2nd, 2025
First, you make yourself a shooting gallery. Then you get upset when people shoot.

Complaints about shooting and violence are nothing new in downtown Myrtle Beach. In 2017, a shooting on Ocean Boulevard on Father’s Day injured six people and brought much attention to Myrtle Beach because a tourist happened to livestream the incident on Facebook.

In 2018, an off-duty employee of RidTydz on North Ocean Boulevard was shot inside the establishment and died. A lawsuit filed by the man’s family said that the popular tourist spot “was becoming known as a problem area for increasing incidents of violence, shootings and murders to the extent that Myrtle Beach had been infamously nicknamed ‘Murder Beach.’”

In 2020, then-Myrtle Beach City Councilman John Krajc told ABC 15 News that the violence had to end. “If we stop making ourselves the ‘discount beach,’ over time that culture can change,” he said. “We have to remember this is Myrtle Beach, not ‘Murder Beach,’ not ‘Dirty Myrtle.’” …

[The mayor complained about] “hotels who choose not to clean themselves up, and offer rooms at $40-$45 a night” and businesses along Ocean Boulevard that cater to the wrong crowd by selling “graphic” T-shirts, drug paraphernalia and “things that are not welcoming to families.”

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Murder Beach isn’t working class; it’s sub-proletarian. It’s dirt cheap, ugly, porny, druggy, boozy, gunny. Its clubs are loud, extremely gross, and feature really cheap alcohol. Outside the clubs, squatted trucks and hordes of motorbikes screech by. “The last time I was in Myrtle my Uber driver had a gun between his knees because he was worried about getting robbed again.”

And Myrtle Beach is wall to wall gun ranges, so don’t forget your own guns!

All wrapped up in South Carolina itself, Murdaughville!

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I mean, yeah, this might appeal to a few… non-standard… families, but I’m thinking all of that plus a pretty constant atmosphere of menace on the main thoroughfares – deepened by a huge police presence – doesn’t exactly broadcast safe family fun. I mean hey why do they need battalions of officers? Aren’t we supposed to be having a relaxed carefree sort of experience?

Any family with the means to vacation someplace better than Myrtle Beach should certainly be expected to do that. Your chance of getting shot might not be great, but you can count on feeling menaced and cheapened by the setting.

And of course everyone says that thing about changing the culture, but there’s real big piles of real big money behind the purulence, and the business owners making all that money aren’t about to fuck with their model.

May 1st, 2025
“When you have 20% vacancy, you can’t fill your department.”

Would you want to work for the Murder Beach police department?

March 8th, 2025
Go to a hidden illegal destination, put on boxing gloves, and then beat the shit out of each other until you kill someone.

Don’t call 911 or anything as he’s dying, because you’re not supposed to be at the secret illegal destination, and your fraternity isn’t supposed to be beating people to death. Keep it quiet, lie about everything, and let the guy die.

March 8th, 2025
South Carolina has the firing squad; Iran has 74 lashes.

In Iran, you get whipped 74 times for singing songs about women who choose not to cover every inch of their whorish flesh; in some US states, condemned murderers can opt to be shot to death by the state.

March 5th, 2025
“It would be so sad and so shameful that a country that has been a leader in public health for so many decades would be losing [its ‘measles eliminated’] status.”

Shame seems to be the big thing at the moment (“And I have — I first started thinking, is it — am I feeling grief? Am I feeling shock, like I’m in a hallucination? But I just think shame, moral shame. It’s a moral injury to see the country you love behave in this way.”) as the US regresses to Second World status, with our would-be dictator and primitive public realm.

Our emerging civic models are disease-vector cults (fringe Mennonites, the Ultraorthodox) and it’s INSANE that we keep giving zealots vaccination exemptions and education exemptions and civic existence exemptions but this is where we are. Eventually our sense of shame will disappear, and it’ll be all Ostrogoth and Visigoth and Mad Max Fury Road.

At least we’ll have plenty of guns for the incipient permanent warfare.

February 26th, 2025
‘”There should be no reason for us to see measles outbreaks in this country, or anywhere in the world right now, due to the fact that we have a very safe and effective vaccine,” [a local public health official] said.’

Yeah, well a kid already died of measles because unfortunately for the kid he/she lived in a state that thinks freedom means ignoring everything primitive cults within the state do (go, Texas!) — wouldn’t want to interfere with the fringe-Mennonite cluster out there that doesn’t educate or vaccinate its children. Too cute! Leave ’em be! It’s Trump DEI.

And just wait til a lot of other anti-vaxxers in Texas and New Mexico get a load of the effects of HUGELY contagious measles on their children.

February 10th, 2025
Megamansion Mischief!

A heady mix of martinis, machine guns, and masses of paying underage partiers (no guest list – you simply respond to flyers advertising it all over town) just exploded — whodathunkit? — into mortal combat! A sixteen year old is dead, and a bunch of other kids are injured, and somebody filmed the fun, with tons of people racing and screaming down the driveway into the night.

Here’s the house, in case you also want to pack a bunch of armed strangers into a random unguarded location and get them drunk.

As with the late-night lounge massacres UD tracks on this blog, the megamansion massacres have become routine; but just as no one wants to shut down the lounges, so no one seems interested in messing with the bullet-spewing big houses.

Maybe the extremely wealthy neighbors of mansions like this one? Does it bother them a tad?

UD also wonders about the people who build insanely massive houses like this one. Did they intend for some rich person to buy it, and when that didn’t happen they decided to rent it out to swarms of teenage shooters? Me don’t get it.

February 10th, 2025
Surely James Madison University knew its campus harbored a gang that killed its members.

The gang used to be a recognized JMU fraternity, but its lethality/perversity was too much even for a southern frat school, so JMU took away its recognition. Right away, under a different name, and now free from school rules, the frat reconstituted itself and kept up the killing.

It killed two members, and one would-be member, in a car crash, and the parents of the dead boys are suing the gang and each of its members.

JMU should have taken action against the reconstituted gang as soon as it learned of it. As twisted as it is for a university to have to police and surveil itself in this way, if you’re going to let frats go wild on your campus, as JMU notoriously has, you have an obligation to understand that eventually one or more of these groups is going to go very seriously rogue, and that before multiple students of yours are drugged unconscious, dumped in a car, and driven into a tree, you need to rid your campus of the killers.

February 3rd, 2025
‘In 2022, two … fellows at [the] Brookings [Institution] published a … warning, prescribing a course of “reality therapy” to Democrats, including over the party’s “cultural bubble,” which they said put many in the party out of touch with less-educated or lower-income Americans.’

Judging by the shenanigans at the recent DNC meeting, my fellow Dems will simply never get it.

February 3rd, 2025
Why Trump…

won.

Even if you don’t subscribe to the Atlantic, all you need are the first three paragraphs that they provide.

January 28th, 2025
‘The Zizians …. apparently believe that because there are two hemispheres in the brain, individuals can split their consciousness between two personalities by waking one side at a time…’

Background on the lunacy behind the killing at the border. Think Charlie Manson and his gang.

January 25th, 2025
One of Washington State University’s dead frat boys gets a chance at vindication.

An appeals court just ruled that his family’s case against the school can go to trial. WSU, one of the scummiest schools it’s been my duty to follow on this blog, stands around while their frat system hazes like a motherfucker, and if the frats occasionally kill someone so what. But the court says this one has to go to trial.

It’s like that quarter-billion dollar WSU athletics debt. So WHAT. Shut up man.

Wonder how much the settlement of this case will run the school.

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Well. Washington’s a really rich state and can increase WSU funding by a billion next year.

May 1st, 2024
‘South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem will headline a fundraising dinner for the Jefferson County Republican Party on Saturday.’

Swag bag contents:

HOW TO KILL YOUR DOG

December 23rd, 2023
‘One of the legal organizations that represented Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss, Protect Democracy, is … also representing them in a separate lawsuit against the right-wing blog The Gateway Pundit and is representing a Pennsylvania postal worker smeared by Project Veritas, a county recorder in Arizona attacked by the Republican candidate Kari Lake and a voter in Georgia accused of being a “ballot mule” by Dinesh D’Souza.’

These also should be fun to watch.

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