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‘[I]nvestigators said they found two firearms in a 10-month-old child’s bedroom. They said one of the firearms was found in the closet while the other was found inside the child’s crib…
[B]oth firearms were modified consistent with Glock switch installation…
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[The suspect] already had an ankle monitor as a bond condition related to a homicide.’
… on his campaign website. He’s running in the Dem. primary for Congress from Hawaii.
Kirill got mad the other day because somebody on a beach asked him to turn his music down, so he
threatened the man by implying he had a firearm and would shoot the victim’s wife.
A bystander intervened, leading to a physical altercation during which Basin allegedly armed himself with a knife and threatened multiple people before throwing it into the ocean. Police said the bystander recovered the knife and turned it over to responding officers.
Kirill’s threatened a lot of other people, in other venues, with fists and weapons. He has quite a history of violence.
Rather than run for office, UD suggests that Kirill, who grew up in Ukraine, take his pugilistic skills to that war-torn country. If he must explode in rage on a regular basis, make it meaningful and ding a Russian.
And, armed with that distinction, it wants to show you what the state can accomplish.
Lotsa people at the In-N-Out parking lot this afternoon filmed the two boys (or maybe just one) with long, long guns finally taking their weapons out for a play date. They’ve been champing at the bit to pull the AR15s and shoot folks, and today turned out to be the day. You could just see the beginnings of facial hair on one of the tykes.
In-N-Out. Life’s like that, ain’t it? One minute you’re in a burger joint reaching for the mustard, and the next moment you’re out cold. Live each day as if thy last, as the great old hymn has it, for lo as the lord giveth gun rights just so the lord taketh away your capacity to survive a 7.62x39mm cartridge.
FB commenter: Or, as we say in America, Saturday.
… has become all the rage in the land of 500 million firearms. If, like Colin Gray, you get excited at the spectacle of your psychotic kid plastering his room with photos of mass killers and then letting rip at his high school with one of the guns you’ve pressed on him, you can be convicted of murder alongside him.
Your venerable Bite of Seattle food festival confirms that you’re just like the rest of America: You can’t gather in crowds without getting shot. The two 14 year olds (or whatever – that’s an age estimate) shooting at each other in the middle of your sushi sampling will always be top of mind for you now. You will stop attending anything that calls itself a festival because in this country festivals = shooting galleries. Parades, fireworks displays, protest marches — you name it. A real bloody mess.
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UPDATE: Look at that. I was off by one year.
The government relations director at the Heritage Foundation was caught with a loaded gun plus cocaine and fentanyl as he entered the Russell Senate Office Building last week. He told police the drugs were “prescribed by a medical professional.” Dr Feelgood!
These plasma collection locations concentrate crates of guns, gallons of alcohol, and gazillions of intellectually disabled gangs.
Just the other day, UD posted about a killing field like this in Denver. She was confident that no matter how many next-day pressure washers Denver had to bring to its sidewalks, the city’s bond would remain with the bloody.
But lo! There seems to be a body/gunshot limit. 66 shots from at least two people engaged in warfare among innocent passersby — not just, say, 50 shots from one guy spraying a crowd cuz he was denied admission to the abattoir… that wouldn’t be enough to trigger a city shutdown… but 66 fired among multiple combatants was in fact enough to rouse the city from its sleep.
Funny how the club has no comment and the local press doesn’t use the word. Everybody knows there’s no better place – duh – to do the deed than a gun club.
Not if you keep shooting it to death.
‘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.
Tucson’s mayor, surveying her city’s bloody streets after another mundane massacre, wonders why morons with magnums still rule her world.
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…
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 intellectually disabled. 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.
Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
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Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
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Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
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Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
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