Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment

Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie

… greets you from their campfire along a lake in the Pennsylvania woods. UD, her sisters, and Mr UD (looking chiseled below) have been roughing it (as rough as ‘thesdans get) up north, and Les UDs are

now back home, recovering.

I don’t claim it’s anything other than one of the meaner motives, but UD has always adored encountering flatout fulminating hypocrisy. This can’t involve just being – I dunno – silent, passive, and inert in regard to living a life obscenely at odds with your professed foundational values. The hypocrisy I adore announces itself – boldly, loudly, shamelessly, crazily, rambunctiously, crashingly, self-pleasuringly.

Take a look at this blog’s thick hypocrisy file – much but not all of it centering on the noisy superChristian superpiety of superperverted college sports coaches and Liberty University presidents – to share in the perennial delight of truly fa rumore hyperhypocrisy.

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And now we have a new category: Supreme Hypocrisy. Private jet and private yacht enthusiast Clarence Thomas shares this about himself:

“I prefer the RV parks. I prefer the Walmart parking lots to the beaches and things like that. There’s something normal to me about it. … I come from regular stock, and I prefer that — I prefer being around that.”

Who among us wouldn’t? I don’t know anyone who, given a choice between standing in a Walmart parking lot and lying on a beach in Bora Bora would choose abnormal Bora Bora. I mean, yech! Yech! (I’m spitting something nasty out of my mouth.) YECH.

Ah. That’s better. Where’s the fucking parking lot? I want to walk among the RVs…

I have decided to follow RVs

I have decided to follow RVs

I have decided to follow RVs

No turning back…

Let me lie in full sunlight on asphalt, Lord

With the strains of 2 Live Crew

With the souped up engines of blessed Rams

I prefer being around that

[A]ny other trial outcome would have emboldened the nation’s militia movement and congressional firebrands like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green and Jim Jordan. To date, Jordan’s attempts as House Judiciary Committee chair to attack prosecutors and the FBI have flopped. Had the Proud Boys been acquitted, however, those previous political stunts would have looked like warmup acts for future theatrics alleging the Justice Department was prosecuting innocent Americans.

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How cool for Green and Jordan to be mentioned in the same sentence with the militia movement!

And don’t forget the capo di tutti capi!

With these latest foot soldiers’ convictions, the baton now passes to special counsel Jack Smith and to Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis to complete the task by bringing accountability to the very top. 

Nice writing, by Ankush Khardori.

And now – ahem! – lemme tell you why yall should reelect me governor.

‘[A vicious national cabal made up of degenerate liberals] sees our progress on education and the economy and they want to stop it. You see, a successful, thriving, growing Mississippi does not work for them, not if it is also a God-fearing, family loving and truth-believing, hard-working conservative Mississippi … They want Mississippi to be the butt of their jokes …‘

You’ve beaten me again
Just as my campaign begins to pick up steam

You’ve left me on the floor just like you did before
And even made me pay your legal team

You’ve beaten me again
Just when I begin my run for free world chief
I tried to litigate but once again cruel fate

Hath brought me naught but grief

 It’s happening in all the let ’em die states:

[W]omen’s health specialists from states where abortion is criminalized are beginning to relocate to places like Washington state, which has strong abortion rights laws.

 “[W]e are legally unable now,” explains an exiting Idaho doc, “to prevent harm to patients.”

Another: “This isn’t a safe place to practice medicine anymore.”

Not safe. Which has UD thinking along the following lines: With the removal of virtually all gun laws in some of these same states, we begin to see emerging what I guess these states have always wanted: The return of frontier life. Ain’t got no docs out here. Don’t need no docs. You’re on your own.

These same states tend to be, you know, also our big anti-vax states, our big anti-science states (schools should teach creationism, not evolution), our big anti-gay and (Idaho certainly!) our big anti-Jew/anti-black states, our big secession states… Obviously these attitudes aren’t out there everywhere in all of these places, but you can just see many maternal-death-before-abortion legislatures determined to rid their states of anything at all, say, associated with the Enlightenment.

It’s really queer, if I can transfer that term from gay provenance to, uh, the provinces. Radically queer.

… takes us to the bustling, dynamic, city of Atlanta, Georgia, where a few hours ago a guy walked into a Midtown building and mowed down several people.

He remains at large; only one of his targets has died so far, but UD assumes others will succumb to their wounds.

… yesterday, at a local cafe.

Bankrupt, and drop dead GORGEOUS.

Did you know that Bay St Louis, site of today’s mass murder, is a charming Gulf Coast destination, and the birthplace of noted historian/plagiarist Stephen Ambrose? Voted Best Place to Live in Mississippi, BSL has also got berserk, bullet-spraying, teenagers. They own all kindsa guns, they know how to use ’em, and they like to kill lotsa people. Y’all come down now, y’hear? We got the “friendliest gun laws in the nation.”

MMT, a new way to travel the highways and byways of our amazing country. Stay tuned!

Sad that we keep having to learn this lesson.

In 1997, the Southern Baptist Convention launched a boycott of Disney, once again for their pro-gay policies.

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Disney just dug its heels. I mean, they basically said to the Southern Baptist Convention, “Fuck you, we don’t need you.” I don’t know whether the Disney guys were just arrogant or confident, but from the very beginning, they gave not an inch… The Baptists quickly learned that there was no real alternative in terms of popular culture for young children other than Disney. So, they were talking about sacrifice. And I think sacrifice is one thing if they’re asking adults to make it. Disney parks had by that time become a cultural imperative. Which is to say, if you wanted to be a good parent or a good grandparent, taking your children or grandchildren to one of the Disney parks became a cultural imperative. That’s one of the things—one of the boxes you had to tick. And they were a little bit queasy with trying to tell a 7-year-old that we’re not going to Disneyland or Disney World because we think they’re not as friendly to evangelicals as Walt was 30 years ago.

… DeSantis, in my view—and I’ve been covering Southern politics since 1972—is a political thug, a bully, and an arrogant person. Since his rise, no one of equal stature, until now, has stood up to him and said no. I think he really didn’t understand the power that a corporation like Disney wields… I don’t think he realized that Disney punches back, and they may punch back better than he punches. He shouldn’t set himself up to stand or fall on whether he can get Disney to capitulate, because he will never get Disney to capitulate. It will not happen. It didn’t happen in the ’90s, and for sure it’s not going to happen now. And if you had to bet, would you bet on an ambitious Florida governor, or would you bet on a multibillion-dollar corporation that knows what its audience wants?

“Nothing.”

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UD will be updating this story throughout the day.

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UPDATE #1: 11:22 AM

The suspect, Francisco Oropeza, remains on the run.

He is rumored to have joined the so-called AR-Gang (the name is a takeoff on Our Gang), a large underground group of people all of whom are on the run from having recently killed at least five people with their AR-15s. The core membership is made up of mass murderers, but membership is open to any AR-15 owner who wants to meet with other AR-15 enthusiasts.

UPDATE #2: 11:29 AM

The NRA has issued a statement:

We are appalled but not surprised at the wokeism that would persistently harass a lawful owner of a firearm as he practices firing his weapon. Any family that would try to take away our guns needs some basic lessons in the Second Amendment.

As for Mr. Oropeza, the NRA Legal Defense Fund will be providing him a highly regarded Second Amendment attorney to represent him at trial.