Steve Fisher was not geographically a Michigan man – he was raised in Illinois – but he had been on staff for seven years when Schembechler handed him the reigns of the team.

[The economics instructor] said he hid behind a desk with about 20 … students, and that one was shot in the leg.

About 20 other students ran out of the room’s side doors, he said. The students who were sitting in the middle row had a harder time escaping the gunfire. “The students in the middle were impacted the most,” he said. “Many of them were lying there and they were not moving. I have no idea how many.”

No one knows much of anything yet, but there’s apparently been an active shooter on campus for some time, and there may be multiple victims.

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Two dead, nine critical. So far.

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‘Gov. Dan McKee of Rhode Island described the shooting as “an unthinkable nightmare”…’ How tone deaf can you be. Not only thinkable — same old same old.

Yes, same old, same old.

Don’t NOBODY do hazing like Texas. Plus nobody down there gives a shit.

SING IT

Tickets have a five-fold rise
Fans must pay a rip-off price
Too ra loo ra loo
Pat a pat a pan
When I pay my FIFA sum
How can anyone be glum

At this late date it isn’t about the ancient layers of moral filth in the soil of bigtime college football; even UD, who giveth not a fuck about collegiate sports, can recite the (highly selective) history of ick Mitch Albom reviews here — all of his nostalgia prompted by U Mich’s latest coaching scandal.

Its six million dollar a year coach got to be coach when the coach before him was suspended for recruitment violations (the new coach – duh – was also guilty of recruitment violations) but hey that doesn’t even count in any university sports reckoning, does it? Business as usual. Sex shit, however, plus assault, plus the guy who earns five million more than the school president is as we speak in jail… They’ve dumped the dude for cause but he’ll sue anyway and end up costing UM many millions. Life of the mind.

According to NBC News data, the K-12 vaccination rate for measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) in Spartanburg County was 90% for the 2024-25 school year, below the 95% level doctors say is needed to protect against an outbreak. In neighboring Greenville County, the MMR vaccination rate was 90.5%.

Rapidly escalating outbreak. Stay the hell out of South Carolina.

Can’t be a judge in Germany if you won’t take off your hijab. Reasons here.

I began thinking over this list of the six ingredients Professor Van Ghent felt it necessary for a novel to contain in order for it to provide “contiguity” – a nice euphemism for “relevance”- “with modern interests”: death, sex, hunger, war, guilt, God. When I cast around in my memory for a modern novel that would eminently qualify, the first that came to my mind was, for some reason, James Jones’s From Here to Eternity, now so thoroughly forgotten, though it was only a little over twenty years ago that it was the great bestseller of the time and the great movie a little later. It had death; it had sadism; it had hunger – at least it contained great chunks of “social consciousness,” which I suppose is what is meant. It had sex – how thrilled we all were at the daring of the famous copulation scene on the Hawaiian beach! It had war – the attack on Pearl Harbor, no less. Indeed, it combined the last two ingredients in a short sentence of priceless felicity, to which Jane Austen could never have hoped to aspire: “Pearl Harbor made a queasiness in the testicles.”

Donald Greene

Wisconsin Gun Deer Season Over, Other Opportunities Still Available

Wow! Fatal shooting (a second student was injured) on a university campus in Frankfort KY! Just wow! Second such incident on that campus in four months! “Kentucky’s gun laws are among the worst in the country, and the state has one of the higher rates of gun violence in the nation,” but wow Guv says it’s an isolated incident! SOOOOOOO shocking! In Kentucky of all places. School is so shocked they’ve cancelled classes for the rest of the semester cuz man things like that just don’t happen around here.

This harsh attack on Quebec’s evolving secularism laws chastises that province for failure to love diversity, but nowhere makes an effort to figure out why, in certain parts of the world (see France), large majorities vote decisively in favor of a secular public realm. Nowhere does the writer note that burqas are banned in countless countries, many of them middle eastern. Nowhere does she wonder why people find the sight of three year old girls in hijabs and thick black robes disturbing. She appears to find comments like this one, from a Canadian day care owner about her staff, convincing:

“I have had [college] students [who work in the day care center] that have been wearing burqas and hijabs. And it did not affect the way they interacted with the children. Actually, it was a very good thing because the children were curious and they were asking a lot of questions and they wanted to know why were they different, why were they wearing that. And, you know, so again, it gives them the opportunity to understand and to learn something that they may not have been exposed to otherwise.”

Indeed, very young female children spending all day with women whose very mouths are covered up (along with everything else except their eyes) are going to find that curious for sure and are going to want to know why they can’t see their teacher. What a wonderful early lesson in diversity for them to know that certain cultures insist women be totally hidden from the world. No doubt they are learning inspiring truths about their gender and how it is valued.

Anyone who thinks there’s the slightest difficulty interacting with someone who won’t let you see their face, or the mere contours of their body, or even their hands, is a party pooper.

Which is to say – if you’re to go all-out against any form of public secularity, you’re going to have to take seriously the grounds of majority opposition to some forms of public religiosity.

Pennsylvania State University [will close] seven campuses due to financial constraints, while Louisiana State University [has] implemented a hiring freeze and other cost-cutting measures.

[B]oth institutions [recently] fired their head football coaches. Penn State [paid] more than $45 million to make head coach James Franklin go away … LSU fired Brian Kelly [and] gave him a buyout of $54 million.

Organizers of a marathon where participants said fuck you to a hijab/black winding sheet as their running outfit have been arrested for“violating public decency.”

… warm up around a fire pit that says BETHESDA.