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 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%.

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.

Donald Trump and Gwyneth Paltrow fighting over who gets to be the main character on law twitter pic.twitter.com/5QQrx6oMJx

— Alex Su (@heyitsalexsu) March 30, 2023

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!

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.

1 in 4 Colorado teens can access a

loaded gun within 24 hours, study finds

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

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

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.

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…

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.

… at UD’s sister’s place.

‘Copycat behavior is very common, in fact. Anecdotal evidence strongly indicates that threats increase in schools nationwide after a shooting has occurred anywhere in the United States.’ [Professor Mary Ellen] O’Toole encouraged students, teachers, other school staff and police to ‘be more vigilant in noting disturbing students’ behavior’ …

That’s the problem, ain’t it? The massacrist’s best friend knew she was suicidal and generally unstable, but we all have difficulty imagining that being an edgy introverted and self-destructive person with identity issues could ever have anything to do with seeking out children for slaughter. Sue Klebold was aware her son tended toward depression, and, more dire, had as his best friend a person she correctly identified as truly mentally disturbed. Of course she also knew her son had been in trouble with the law. She could never have imagined it added up to Columbine.

Other massacrists, like Adam Lanza, lived in virtually total isolation in their houses; in Lanza’s case, only his dippy, gun-mad, mother had access to the paranoid monster he’d become. And as for in-school monsters-in-waiting, most of us run away from scary people, while the thought of the vengeance they’d exact if they found out we reported them stays our hand.

But these days, when you have in your university class (as I once did when I taught at GW) a student who, session after session, displays in her behavior and comments a rather scary pre-psychotic orientation, you’ve got to think guns. You’ve got to tell campus security.

Here’s another focus for your anger, amid this eerily similar replay of the Adam Lanza massacre eleven-years ago.

Both killers

1. were diagnosed mentally ill;

2. were former students at the shot-up school;

3. were in possession of large personal armories;

4. shot their way through the school’s doors;

5. expressed “resentment” of the school;

6. were in their twenties.

I’m waiting to hear whether the latest killer was, like Lanza, addicted to repulsively violent video games. She was by her own admission a video game addict; it’s not clear about the level of violence.

We’re sick – we should be sick – of the sweet quiet no criminal record bs we sometimes hear about the massacrist in the immediate aftermath. Oh, she was a lovely shy thing in high school! What a lovely quiet neighbor – I can’t believe all this time she was in there amassing an armory and writing her mad manifesto…

Lanza – who like the latest killer squirreled away in his house plotting his revenge – pumped four bullets directly into his mother’s head before going to the school. The bullets were in a gun his mother had gotten him as a gift. This woman got her head blown to bits because of her nutso denial — the same denial that got Kip Kinkel’s parents ripped to shreds by the guns they got Kip as gifts because they thought it would be therapeutic.

We’re sick – we should be sick – of an American culture so twisted that parents who know – must on some level know – that their kids are disturbed/dangerous either get them guns or don’t seem to make any effort to take their guns away. And certainly don’t seem to confide in anyone whatever they might know/suspect/fear about their kid’s murderous thoughts/intentions.

I’m just saying that I don’t intend to believe the bullshit we’re about to hear from this person’s parents.