New Kennedy Center, new repertoire.

… that.‘ Ayatollah Khomeini 

You can identify some of this nation’s scummiest universities by their unwavering tolerance of the most psychotically sadistic fraternities imaginable. Readers of this blog already know the University of Central Florida as one of academia’s bottommost dwellers; but did you know that Sigma Chi at UCF has now been credibly accused of running over its pledges?

Fraternity brothers at Sigma Chi allegedly hit pledges with a car as part of a hazing ritual now under investigation by the University of Central Florida, according to an incident report obtained by the Orlando Sentinel late Wednesday.

A sorority member whose house sits next door to Sigma Chi’s told police she heard yelling, saw a car strike a young man and then heard someone shout “help!” and “my bones, my bones, they’re broken,” the report said.

Hoo boy. They are looking at another two-week suspension.

‘A White House official confirmed [Dave] Weldon’s nomination [for CDC head] was pulled, but did not offer an explanation about why.’

“The war has sublimated the rage seething beneath the surface to the needs of national security,” writes Yair Rosenberg of an Israeli public infuriated about the continued subsidizing of a population which refuses to defend the country because it considers Israel the enemy.

[A University of Connecticut professor’s] travel expenses include three Disney trips. A travel request described the purpose of one such trip as visiting the Central Florida State Archives.

[The professor] later confirmed that she did not go to the archives, investigators say.

Instead, … she visited the park [with her children] to look at the experience of Disney and how it sanitizes American history…

[The professor] also used school money on a trip to Northern Ireland in November of 2023. [She] got married there, but claimed the entire trip was work-related, according to the compliance report.

She told university staff that she was married at 9:30 in the morning at city hall in Belfast, and that it only took 20 minutes …

[M]any of the trips took place when [she] was supposed to be teaching classes.

You’ll be relieved to hear that although strictly speaking the fight started inside the terminal – at a crowded baggage claim – they moved it outside when the AK47s started up. Admittedly, if you’d been at the airport window that their guns blew out, you’d have been killed, but as it happened no one was standing by that window.

As our country argues the advantages of American colonization to various of the world’s nations, it shouldn’t forget to mention a way of life which rivals only Haiti.

“Tesla is in Freefall”

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Elon, are you grieving

Over Golden Tess unleaving?

Cars, like the things of man, you

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

Ah! as the DOGE grows older

We will come to such cars colder

By and by, nor spare a sigh

Though worlds of wood trim leafmeal lie;

And yet you will weep and know why.

Now no matter, Musk, the name:

Falling stocks are aflame.

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed

What markets heard of, investors guessed:

It is the panic Tess was born for,

It is Elon Musk you mourn for.

How clever of us to contain populations about whom we cannot collect any data.

The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. “Everybody has to die,” he said...

The guy is writing Richard Dawkins’ next book for him.

For Peter and his family, the loss of their daughter is a private tragedy, one that would be excruciating no matter how she died. The fact that she died of measles, though, is a sign that something has gone wrong with the country’s approach to public health. Twenty-five years ago, measles was declared “eliminated” in the United States. Now a deadly crisis is unfolding in West Texas.

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Total Praise: Peter forgot the most precious part of God’s creation. God created Peter’s daughter’s measles so that she could become a disease vector and spread it all over west Texas. Praise Him.

… for a brief visit. Blogging continues.

There was a sequence where Eliza Douglas, Imhof’s former partner and frequent collaborator, removed her shirt, lay on the floor, and ran a black marker across her nude back. There was a part in which one performer, the talented actress Talia Ryder, intoned the Jeremih song “Paradise” live, and another in which she and another cast member sprawled out together on a dirtied mattress strewn with shattered iPhones. There were many moments in which Douglas and others vaped, puffing strawberry-scented mist into the audience…

Her performers are stony-faced misfits who somnambulantly drift around, occasionally enacting balletic choreographies along the way. The entire performance has the cooler-than-thou vibe of a Balenciaga runway show, replete with a range of rail-thin zillennials in baggy jeans; it has all the surface-level appeal of a Vogue slideshow devoted to one of those events, too…

Why does one performer receive a back tattoo—seemingly for real, with no makeup or special effects—on top of an SUV?…

It’s glib, dull, and hopeless, and it expresses itself well within its first half hour, during a scene where the cast shouts in unison: “We’re fucked, we’re doomed, we’re dead. I think I made you up inside my head.” 

This story is the quintessence of America, mes petites. UD‘s telling you: It don’t get no more American than this.

Start with baseball. Gotta be baseball, right? A varsity softball game between two high schools where?

 Where else? So okay baseball and Texas. Let’s do motherhood and apple pie! Loving mom Elysia Quinn Klatt was in attendance, cheering on her kid. Also loving dad, from whom Elysia is divorced.

Let’s do free speech! While Junior was out there slugging, mom and dad and their new spouses started shouting about child custody issues.

Last but not least:

During the argument, police said 30-year-old Elysia Quinn Klatt grabbed a firearm from a vehicle and allegedly pointed it at her ex-husband before being immediately disarmed by another male involved in the altercation. No shots were fired.

Klatt and [her current husband] then reportedly left the area in their Dodge Mega Cab RAM 3500, traveling south on FM 462 before the Medina County Sheriff’s Office located Klatt and took her into custody.

Okay, I made up the Dodge Mega. But it must have been some sort of pickup.

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Plus the story’s like what did Dreiser call it An American Tragedy cuz Elysia can’t even lie to get out of her charges (aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful carrying of a weapon in a prohibited place and terroristic threat against family/household member – aggravated assault) cuz she did it in front of a packed softball game.

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“Okay so I made up the Dodge Mega but I wonder how much one costs.”

“I’ll guess,” said Mr UD, “$80,000.”

“I’ll guess $50,000. [Checks online.] Yikes. High end model starts at $90,930. But if you only want a few bells and whistles it’ll cost you $70,000 plus.”

“And then there’s buying gas for it.”

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Don’t call 911 or anything as he’s dying, because you’re not supposed to be at the secret illegal destination, and your fraternity isn’t supposed to be beating people to death. Keep it quiet, lie about everything, and let the guy die.

Police responded to reports of a shooting on a crowded beach Friday afternoon.

It happened in the West End, where hundreds of students have gathered for “Senior Skip Day,” according to reports.

A spokesperson with the Galveston Police Department said a gun was recovered from the scene, but no one was struck. Six people were arrested.

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Footage, interviews. Big fight, big Glock. Big state of Texas that doesn’t give a shit.