One of UD‘s neighbors is suddenly being visited by lots of friends in armored SUVs. Hm.

… they’ve got one in a spanking new high school in Charlotte NC cuz the football team cut a guy and he was pissed so he shot his gun (totally. lots of students with guns on campus every day.) into a room. But he didn’t hit/kill anyone, so why should the school bother telling parents about it? Kid with gun. Yawn. Kid attacks school with gun but no one’s hurt so wazza matter with you? Shaddap this doesn’t count nothing happened.

As you know, UD finds some of her favorite sentences in real estate listings.

… with the usual massive windowless Brutalist suspects; of course, Boston’s City Hall Plaza and its evil twin, DC’s FBI building, continue to dominate the rankings.

While scrolling through images, UD discovered MIT’s Simmons Hall – a dorm – and she was excited to see that this project

… wait — THIS project

is a noteworthy part of the country’s emergent Mortar and Pistol school of architecture, where (in this case) the walls are pockmarked by bullets, and there are generous platforms for sniper nests.

More broadly, M&P design incorporates guns of all kinds into its symbolic forms.

… is UD‘s word for the placement of your body at a site of great meaning as you commit suicide. Offhand, UD can think of many examples of these – nature lovers who walk deep into national parks and lie down, athletes who end themselves on playing fields and running tracks, and, most recently, a young Finnish politician who killed himself in the parliament building (he had apparently gotten dire health news).

Of course most suicides do the deed at home, or, if it’s outside the home, the motive is simply to spare family members trauma. But many want to make a statement about what made them feel fully alive.

Horribly, some locations are chosen to express worthlessness and nihilism.

In 2016, Ohio State football player Kosta Karageorge – covering up concussions that were becoming symptomatic, having easy access to a gun, crushed by a fight with a girlfriend, and with a history of depression – placed himself, before pulling the trigger, inside a dumpster.

‘[The Blackwing] immediately became Cadillac’s most powerful and aggressive vehicle across its extensive portfolio… Unlike the standard CT5-V, which utilizes a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 engine producing 360 hp, the Blackwing wades into battle with a huge supercharged 6.2-liter V8, which transmits an angry 668 hp to those complaining rear tires… The raging powerplant … gets the Blackwing to 60 mph in 4.6 seconds, with the grunt being channeled through either a six-speed manual or 10-speed automatic transmission.’

This guy paid $200,000 so that he could “driv[e] 103 mph in [a] wrong-way crash that killed [an] Olympic swimmer” and along the way fuck up six other drivers. What power! Now he’s in jail waiting trial for “aggravated manslaughter, vehicular homicide, and assault by auto.”

‘Cutthroat… aggressive… raging… angry… battle… supercharged… ‘ Paid a fortune and got exactly what he wanted and now it’s just a matter of cell time before he can parade his lethal rage in front of us all. Guns or cars, a lot of Americans can’t get enough, and I’m sure right now Cadillac’s engineers are studying the crash to see how he could have hit ten cars instead of seven, and killed three instead of one. VROOOOOOM.

Whether Amy Bishop or Matthew Harris or Bryan Kohberger, seriously disturbed and disturbing people on campus present schools with a serious dilemma, as in: What the hell to do? Psycho killer Bishop was a well-known and scary presence among her colleagues (and they didn’t even know that she had murdered her brother!), but they thought if they stayed real quiet and denied her tenure she’d go away. Harris, a minority, got promoted from woke campus to woke campus until someone woke up and started screaming about him. Mass murderer Kohberger turns out to have been a well-known nutcase at his school (see my headline), but they acted slowly and feebly in trying to neutralize him.

It’s easy after the explosion to say how could they have etc etc. But universities are civilized, deliberative, tolerant places, ill-equipped to deal with the not yet fully-flowered criminally insane. And of course we want universities to value oddness, to act slowly against even problematic people.

UD‘s thing is that the new insane proliferation of guns in America makes this otherwise creditable hesitation impossible. It’s now simply irresponsible to wait and see, or to sanction a bit, people who seem threatening. At the very least they should be made aware that the school is aware something’s wrong; they should be made aware that campus security is keeping an eye on them.

‘Lox & Loaded Gun Club Aims for Self-Defense for Jewish Community‘

Took a LONG time and a LONG list of undeserved grants and titles and shit (all of it based on his now-revealed-as-bogus Native American identity) for people to pay attention to the work of the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, which states:

 ‘Klopotek has zero Indian ancestry. TAAF found that he is of only European ancestry. When TAAF asked him to document his claim to being Choctaw or to simply identify who he believes is his ancestor who is Choctaw, Klopotek chose not to respond at all to TAAF’s queries... TAAF asks that Klopotek publicly declare in writing that he is not Choctaw, explain his past actions in full, acknowledge the harm he has done, redress this harm, resign from his UO faculty position, and return, with interest, the funds he has received from lying about being Indian.‘

Look at his list of money awards! How do you say monetize, kemosabe?

Asking the dude to give it back would be like asking Bernie Madoff (may his memory be a malediction) to please claw back the sixty five billion he stole, with interest, please.

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Klopotek offers the old Mention My Name in Sheboygan defense: Folks back home know I’m really Indian and that’s all that matters, assholes.

‘At various points, Harry instructed Sophie on light exposure, hydration, movement, mindfulness and meditation, nutrient-rich foods, gratitude lists and journaling to cope with her anxiety. Harry, who has neither nostrils nor opposable thumbs, spent a fair amount of time describing the particulars of alternate nostril breathing.‘

The mother of a young woman who killed herself discovers, posthumously, that she confided only in ChatGPT (“Harry”) as she declined.

Love the idea of Iran dedicating hundreds of millions to its R U INVISIBLE, FEMALE? technology; love even more our Treasury saying fuck you go ahead but we’ll try to make it hurt.

 Pasargad Arian Information and Communication Technology Company is currently working on clitoral recognition surveillance tools [CRST] that will detect a still-intact clitoris. Once detected, the organ will be targeted by flesh-searing drones.

It’s like – what sort of city lets that happen? Has no control of locations that WILL be mass murder sites? It’s like it’s … a fucking menu for mass murder. UD doesn’t get it.

 A fare evasion arrest on the Metro has riled up some District leaders and community members after a video circulating online shows Metro Transit Police pinning a woman to the ground at the Navy Yard station. 

… stand for the hundreds of millions of women around the Muslim world getting their clits ripped off and their vaginal lips stitched closed at birth.

Franchement, Dear Reader, UD can barely stand to cover the ongoing sickening global atrocity of FGM; but when a newborn bleeds out because her sexual organs were slashed to bits in the name of Allah, it’s kind of hard to keep quiet. At least this event is disgusting enough to get significant world coverage; at least the three lower than dirt women who held down an infant and slit her up the middle and watched her die have been charged.

But it’s Gambia and listen. You don’t know shit about little Gambia, but close to one hundred percent of its babies and girls get their genitals slashed off.

Oh Egypt? Egypt, you say? Pretty much the same statistic there, guys. And Egypt’s all big and we’ve heard of it and all. Same slitting them down the middle.

Oh England? Really?? England tries hard to detect and punish FGM among its Muslim population, but unless a hospital ends up with a bloodied dead baby nothing much will be detected.

… FGM kills 44 000 girls each year according to recent research, which analysed 15 African countries. This means that FGM is a bigger cause of death than malnutrition, measles, meningitis, HIV/Aids, and many other health threats for girls in the 15 countries studied... The global figure for deaths from FGM is likely to be much higher than 44 000, when all populations are included—particularly those from Indonesia, Somalia, Somaliland, and Sudan, which have a high prevalence of FGM... [The practice is still legal in] Mali, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Somalia.

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