Nihilists are funny until they start chewing the scenery.
If true, ol’ Mom belongs in jail. Let’s see if the Oregon courts can get her there.
Duh.
As we grab our popcorn, Graeme Wood prepares us for the movie.
This appeared back in 2017, when the perverts at Penn State tortured and killed Timothy Piazza.
What happened to Timothy Piazza was a predictable tragedy, and there will be more unless we end Greek life for good. I make no claims that it will be easy. Fraternities have dominated campuses, defied authorities and rebuffed efforts at suppression for nearly 200 years. But in that time we have ended slavery, given women the vote and put men on the moon. Of course we can get rid of fraternities. College presidents, administrators and trustees just have to muster the will to do it. As for the rest of us, we need to keep pressure on them to do so, and keep counting the bodies until they act.
So as you follow what the perverts at Cornell did to the woman they gang-raped, remember: We can get rid of them.
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Cornell begins to respond.
You can pity this family, which perished on a brutally hot California hike because they had no understanding of what they were walking into; you feel less empathy for this more recent dead group. They, and the tour company that led them into a massive storm/avalanche (lawsuits incoming), knew perfectly well they assumed a humongous risk.
Why why why? Everyone’s asking.
UD thinks a lot of it is bragging rights – same thing that leaves frozen bodies on Everest.
We’re on it! We’re DEF on it, y’all!!
Wants to let the butcher’s bill rise a bit, so she can cover several deaths at a time.
It’s always the same. Nothing ever changes, and nothing will, since fraternities are the life blood (death blood) of so many of this country’s awful universities. Unless you can promise parents their sons stand some chance of being bullied into drinking themselves to death, they apparently won’t even look at your school.
The state of Arizona is a perennially popular academic abattoir, with (most recently) both Northern Arizona and Arizona State slaughtering eager young newbies desperate for acceptance. Ho hum.
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Oh wait. ASU didn’t manage to kill this batch. It merely tortured them to within an inch of their lives.
Not that ASU hasn’t had its share of kills!
Chacun à son scandale to be sure, but for UD the Secretary of Labor scandal’s got it all over the Somali daycare scandal. The latter offers scraggly whistleblowers bursting into dank suburban offices, while Madame Secretary OTOH lolls poolside in a bright yellow bikini at Vegas venues, glugging booze and shacking up with her tax-subsidized sex-partner-subordinate …
Sex drugs and rock and roll, baby! All the Somali thing offers is a clot of religious hypocrites hiding behind hijabs; if any of it’s true, the Labor thing’s got everything we want in a scandal – rippling flesh, naughty fucking at high-end hotels, abuse of office, adultery, alcohol, theft of taxpayer funds… And the thing just broke! Bet there’s more.
… and that’s just the long and the short of it, mes petites. This blog, with help from readers like George, who recently sent UD this despairing piece from Indiana University, has I think decisively demonstrated that, qua behavioral category, fraternities are a catastrophe. Down south, more and more of the lads have guns that feature in haze-play. Drugs are a frat biggie, too, with the all-male secrecy/loyalty plus public-facing clean-cutness of Greek boys a perfect cover for large-scale distribution conspiracies. More commonly, on a daily basis, frats are about torturing teenagers desperate for acceptance, getting violently drunk, establishing more and more sophisticated ways of cheating through college, offering corrupt bigtime sports programs their most fanatic forms of support, and of course harassing women.
Because frats are supported by powerful rich organizations, and because party schools know they’d fold without them, nobody really does anything about the blood and guts. Dormouse deans sleep through the mad tea party, roused to irritable attention only when the little ones manage to kill a pledge. Unable to shut out the thudthudthudthud of a dead drunk falling hard down his final flight of stairs, the deans pull out the unacceptable intolerable unforgiveable appalling template and let fly until it blows over. They pull it back out when it happens again.
The situation is exactly like that of the camorra in Italy. Everyone knows that criminal violent enterprises are intrinsic to the setting, and no one does anything. I mean, as in this most recent shutdown of the entire system at Indiana (how long will it be suspended? couple of weeks), some teeny symbolic something will occasionally occur, and then it’s back to business.
Just as Banquo’s Ghost returned to haunt Macbeth’s dinner, now Epstein’s ghost continues to hover over Trump’s Oval Office.
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[I]t’s difficult to muster any sympathy for the Mar-a-Lago Macbeth, as Epstein’s ghost plagues him like a sleazier Banquo.
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I get why several commentators compare Trump’s haunting by Epstein to Macbeth’s haunting by Banquo: Two powerful men, in hard-fought, seemingly secure possession of political dominance, cannot escape, and eventually are perhaps brought low by, the return of the repressed. Their past deeds rear up, eerily reincarnate manifestations, for the world to see.
Yet the second writer’s use of the word ‘sleazier’ points to problems with the comparison. Because after all Banquo is a moral exemplar, come to torture Macbeth with guilt over his crimes, while Epstein is a moral catastrophe, a ghost vindictively gleeful at Trump’s entrapment by Epstein’s degeneracy.
UD suggests that another ghost story – the Henry James fiction “The Turn of the Screw” – might be a better comparison. For the primary ghost here – Peter Quint – seems not only evil, but evil in a very Epstein way: He seduces children. The plot of the James work revolves around the narrator’s failed effort to protect children from sexually threatening adults; and what better echo of the sorry tale of the world’s failure to protect Epstein’s victims? Or of Trump’s failing effort to protect himself?
‘Did any of the masseuses … perform sexual acts for Jeffrey Epstein?
I have just answered the question.
No you haven’t.
I have.
No you haven’t.
Yes I have.
You are refusing to answer the question.
I’m in charge of the deposition. I say when we move on and when we don’t. You are here to respond to my questions. If you refuse to answer, the court will bring you back for another deposition.’
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UD‘s gonna guess Ghislaine is exactly the same person today.
If pseudo-remorse plus lies equals a shorter sentence, then she’s ready to perform.
The lethal cruelty, I reckon, remains.
… has names, photos, and details of prior threats and assaults against Przemek Jeziorski, the Berkeley professor shot to death on the streets of Athens by his ex-wife and her boyfriend (the bf has confessed; she has not).
The professor had sought a restraining order in San Francisco against his ex-wife in May, saying he feared for his life, before he was killed, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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A much better source, with photos of the killers being led out of court. They include a sixteen year old.
The NYT has a Greek correspondent following the story in Athens. Przemek Jeziorski’s death – after two weeks – is getting the coverage it deserves.
Keep in mind the complexity here. As Jeziorski’s brother writes, “Przemek’s estate is in the U.S., his children are in Greece, and our family is in Poland.” He plans to adopt the children, but this too might be another expensive fight. The mother’s Greek family might think it should hold on to the kids until their father’s murderer gets out of prison.
One, two, three, four… but where’s wifey-poo?
[Photo: Reuters TV/Reuters]
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‘Jeziorski had a win in court hours before the murder.’
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Here she is! Does not look happy.
‘Ex-Wife of UC Berkeley Professor Shot in Greece
Arrested on Suspicion of Plotting his Killing‘
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If you followed the shooting death of Professor Dan Markel, you will find virtually all of the details of Przemek Jeziorski’s shooting death familiar. Annoyed that the father of her children wanted to father them, his ex-wife (speculating here, but on pretty solid ground) had some criminal connections, probably through her current boyfriend, and she hired them to blow his brains out right there in the street.
Not everyone has this particular skill – walk up to a stranger, shoot him to death – but both the Adelsons and Nadia Michelidaki seem to have known people who knew people with these abilities.
‘[A]uthorities arrested Michelidaki and accused her of convincing her current partner to kill Jeziorski.
Police also arrested her companion — who has not been identified — and three other men as accomplices.
The three men, two Albanians and a Bulgarian man, were accused of transporting the shooter to the crime scene and giving him the firearm used in the crime.
Another Greek news outlet, iefmerida, reported Michelidaki denied any involvement in the crime when she was arraigned, while her partner and the accused gunman admitted to authorities to shooting Jeziorski, and doing so at Michelidaki’s request.‘
UD, as readers know, likes to follow certain high-profile murders, and she must admit she’s GOBSMACKED by the stupidity of degenerates who think they can contract kill a person they’re known to hate with a passion… and get away with it! In both cases, the conspiracy included gobs of people (I’m counting at least seven in the Markel case, and this one in Greece looks to have involved at least five), and, you know, the more people in on it, the greater your chance of discovery. But beyond that, doesn’t it occur to these idiots that the sudden grotesque gunning down of a perfectly innocent random human being will confidently lead investigators to the only possible people who wanted him dead?
And look what the killers have achieved. They have produced orphans whose mothers killed their fathers. Mothers who will go to prison for life for their crime. Nicely done.
The absolutely disgusting murder of Berkeley professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski, possibly engineered by his Greek ex-wife, echoes the equally disgusting murder of law professor Dan Markel, engineered by his ex-wife’s family.
It took eight years, but three people so far are serving life sentences for Markel’s killing, and a fourth will be in prison for around twenty years. The vindictive ex-wife’s vindictive mother – reported to be the ringleader of the conspiracy – is in prison awaiting her trial, and it’s not yet clear whether the ex-wife will also be tried, but she may well be. All this because the ex-wife didn’t want to share custody of their children.
Perhaps the motive was similar in the case of poor Jeziorski.
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UD worries that Greece’s pathetic justice system will find a way to fuck this up and let the guilty parties walk. It took far too long to deal with the Markel murder, yes, but we did get to it and we have been putting the killers away.
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You can donate to help his family with legal and other expenses here.