The bullets spew fast and furious at Cincinnati’s Roselawn neighborhood hookah joints, where a gunfight broke out on Saturday at one bar, and another gunfight broke out at another bar on Sunday.

The [Sunday] shooting scene is only a few feet away from another shooting that happened at a Roselawn bar around 3 a.m. Saturday morning.

Only a few feet away! And gunfire both weekend nights right there!

Do you think the city of Cincinnati has a little bit of interest in vaguely acknowledging what they’ve got going there? You have to figure there have been tons of fights at those bars that don’t end in gunfire and therefore don’t make the papers… And it’s just a remarkable fact about gunny USA that city councils don’t do shit.

But of course they’re waiting for a real body count. Two or three injured doesn’t cut it.

Mass murder, of course. They’ll be on that right away.

Yes, wotta shocker. Football violence? Now I’ve seen everything.

My “affluent suburb … [an] idyllic hamlet … used to the trappings of Washington’s elite,” looses its chihuahuas on the FBI as the feds search John Bolton‘s house.

But… “bucolic“?

… by early morning sunlight.

People like UD‘s gardens. UD likes UD‘s gardens. But it must be stated for the record that UD‘s zebra grass – eight feet tall and everywhere – is a mite more massive/spreading than she understood when she bought three plants from a little nursery near the Chesapeake Bay a few years ago.

Who knew that some of them are unstaffed? And who knew that giving Gomers unsupervised freedom to shoot would turn out badly?

But they ain’t too dumb to figure out that the best place to shoot their head off is a gun range.

The Bullet Play. Happens routinely now.

Munro Leaf, author of Ferdinand, was the last owner of our house.

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‘