Fox Aflame in a Forest Fire

Things are hotting up for Fox News.

Liberty University – Doctor of Business Administration.  Liberty University – Doctor of Laws.

These seem to be the only two D. Trump honorary degrees that haven’t been revoked; and Trump can rest easy knowing that a school recently run by the Marquis de Jerry Falwell Junior will never do that dastardly deed, even under current circumstances.

U Penn proudly notes that our first indicted president is a Wharton grad.

But surely the school knows that Wharton has produced REAMS of indicted businesspeople. You can get a start on the honor roll on this blog. UD decided a few years ago to keep track of jailed Wharton grads (start with the Dec. 28, 2017 post), but she couldn’t keep up.

‘PRINCETON ACCEPTS 0.00% OF APPLICANTS TO CLASS OF 2027’

Princeton beats Harvard’s 3.41% acceptance rate.

Even more impressive, while 88% of Harvard’s accepted students are expected to accept the school’s offer of admission, Princeton’s matriculation yield is predicted to be 000.00%.

“[Mark] Ridley-Thomas engaged in a corrupt conspiracy with a university dean to steer taxpayer-funded contracts to the school in exchange for benefits for his son.”

Blast from the past time – see these 2022 posts for background – as yet another high-level University of Southern California scandal resolves itself. We’re done with the deadhead dean of the med school; we’ve moved on to the bribery-facilitating dean of the social work school, who has already pled guilty. Veteran LA politician Ridley, her comrade in crime (truly grubby details here), now also awaits sentencing.

I know – it’s all wholly overshadowed by the first indicted prez… but since we brought this up last year, we needed to finish the story.

Fight
SOOEYcide!

All of America’s pig-calling states have among the highest number of guns, the laxest gun laws, AND by far the nation’s highest suicide rates. SOOEYcide!

Alaska

Wyoming

Idaho

Montana

Y’all come on down when you’re ready to blow your head off!

Memphis Says: Damned if Nashville’s gonna get all the attention!

Ours went on for fourteen minutes!

These in-state rivalries are adorable. Let’s hear from Chattanooga!!

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Wanna play? Make sure your state, like Tennessee, doesn’t have any gun laws.

Wow, impressive.

1 in 4 Colorado teens can access a

loaded gun within 24 hours, study finds

‘Ms. Bluestein hopes that the Vermont residency requirement will soon be lifted. She said she was glad she would not be “at cancer’s mercy” and could instead make her “own decisions about when I have had just about all I intend to take from this latest cancer.”’

Vermont is close to waiving in-state requirements for end of life medication.

AK Orgy Heaven

Sold out in Tennessee. Waiting list orders accepted. As American as apple pie.

“This event was … a reminder to every fool who advocates to defund the police or ‘reallocate’ funding away from police departments, that they are advocating to cut the very training, equipment, and heroic officers who saved countless lives.”

Whatever you think of the Defund the Police arguments, it’s grotesquely clear that these United States are the last place in the world you want to fuck with a system that produces people who run toward fire and take out shooters. “What’s exceptional about America is that we have sacrificed the safety of our children because letting them die helps gun sales.”  You can thank the NRA plus millions of Andrew Ogles for current conditions.

Mad Andy’s instagram.

Apparently Andy and the missus... But them’s just rumors at this juncture.

David French, NYT

I’ve grown appalled as parts of the gun rights movement have veered into embracing a form of gun idolatry or gun fetish that treats a gun as a quasi-sacred object. Indeed, Representative Andy Ogles, the congressman for Covenant’s district, sent out a Christmas card featuring him, his wife and two of his kids holding AR-style rifles. Gun fetishists delight in “triggering” and intimidating fellow citizens with open displays of firepower.

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Scientific American:

 [F]etishization of the firearm [in America has grown] to the point that, in the present day, gun owners view their weapons as adding meaning and a sense of purpose to their lives…

A tweet from Wojciech Sadurski

Apparently, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister (not very smart, right-wing fanatic, allegedly Opus Dei) boasts his govt advised Israel on judicial reform. Next, Netanyahu should consult Orban on anti-corruption and Putin on coexistence with neighbours.

Brunch under the cherry trees…

… at UD’s sister’s place.

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