He wanted to win, see.

He now has three years to launch a Head of Prison Library campaign.

Nothing like informed consent to this serious constriction can be said to exist; nor is there any reason for a modern society to play along with the grotesque belief that five year old girls must cover themselves because they are sexually arousing to men.

Macron’s party proposes forbidding “minors under 15 from wearing the veil in public spaces,” and would make it a “criminal offence for coercion against parents who force their underage daughters to wear the veil.”

For most of these children, the veil is only part one. There’s the unvarying uniform of the long baggy black dress, and the comprehensive gender segregation that keeps them out of many normal childhood activities. The French government rightly sees this mode of female upbringing as emblematic of a repressive fanaticism seriously at odds with the free, egalitarian values of the state.

Delaware becomes the twelfth state to legalize medical aid in dying.

66% of UD’s fellow Marylanders support the humane and unremarkable idea that dying people should have control over their deaths, as they had control over their lives. But people in her state legislature who think some notion of what God wants should prevail over what Marylanders want have so far blocked the legislation.

There seems to be some confidence that the legislation will, in not too long a time, pass in Maryland.

… Atul Gawande. But what made this the plagiarism winner and still champeen was that students in the audience got on their cell phones, discovered the plagiarism, and began mouthing the dean’s words in real time. That was very cool of them, and the guy resigned.

The current plagiarism story out of Smith College is less cool, but has its own fun wrinkle. The singer who got an honorary degree there plagiarized her speech and the degree was withdrawn; but what makes this one fun is the official statement from the school’s president, who noted that the speaker explained to her that she “sought to infuse the words of others with her own emotional valence.”

… but you cannot deny that he will fit right in. He clearly speaks the very same language as the French political establishment.

Okay well, based on what I’m reading, most of them – a thousand? – should go, sans délai, to Louisiana, by far America’s most dangerous state.

You’re just thinking Nawlins, but Alexandria, Monroe, Baton Rouge, and tons of others are really really dangerous. UD has often wondered aloud on this blog why anyone would send their kid there to college.

Banker scum. LOL.

And for the umpteenth time I ask you: Tragic? The dean at Grand Valley State says tragic?

Some drunk asshole shot multiple bullets from an upper floor down to a lower floor during a party. The kid killed was at the lower floor and got one of the bullets in his brain.

Note to dean: The proper language for stupid drunken gun deaths is this: “The Grand Valley community is appalled by this senseless death, the sort of death you get when drunk teenagers have easy access to firearms. We’re ashamed to be the school where this happened.”

… election.

Take a bow, SIG Sauer.

Taking a page from Diddy’s book, this bigtime thief announces he’s now all about “intense religious study, community service and therapy,” so he should only suffer a touch of probation rather than the heavy jail time he richly deserves.

“Schwartz’s greed was boundless.” US District Attorney, Georgia.

And as to whether, day after tomorrow, he’ll actually get his ass out of his 19 million dollar penthouse, what do you think? A liar who has reneged on every promise he ever made… Leave? Not leave? Cough up those daily contempt fines? Hm… hm… “Even though it was put on the market last year for $19M, attorneys … wrote in bankruptcy court filings that Schwartz, his wife and children continued to live there, preventing any genuine attempts at a sale. It has since been taken off the market.”

“He never closed on [promised business] deals and instead drained roughly $54M from [clients] to spend on personal expenses, luxury watches.” One of the watches was a $120K Grönefeld 1941 Remontoire.

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UPDATE: Schwartz, the Brooklyn-born real estate investor, had more than a dozen supporters in the courtroom, who let out a gasp when [the judge] issued [a] seven-year, three-month sentence.

GASP — A person who stole 54 million dollars GETS PRISON TIME???

A typical American abattoir, Showcase (UD came up with a better name) is of course noisy and gunny all night long. AND it seems to sit right in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Does Garfield Heights have any zoning ordinances?

Trashy Galveston has enough problems without a yearly plague of plastered Trumpers in Wagoneers. All gunned up and ready to rev, they get in fights, puke and piss on the sand, and crash their Gladiators into other Gladiators.

After the killings, etc., last year, locals have fled, leaving their houses to the hundreds and hundreds of police gathered from all over the region (they’re also looking at the National Guard option). America doesn’t have many (any?) truly ‘police state’ locations, but Galveston during Jeep Weekend really does fit the bill — the very population of the place is wall to wall police. The town has imposed new insanely restrictive rules, is confiscating guns, and has basically promised the revelers that they’re going to try every ruse they can think of to arrest them.

B-but it’s an unsanctioned event, UD!

Yes, Dear Reader, but even if, next year, Galveston officials greet each arriving Jeep owner with a prophylactic spray of tear gas, nothing will deter these patriots. They don’t give a shit about sanctions.

Bikers compete in the burn out pit at Suck Bang Blow bar in Murrells Inlet, S.C. during the 2024 Myrtle Beach Spring Rally. Their spinning tires burn rubber often shredding tires and filling the air with smoke, the roar of engines and the cheers from the crowd.

The disgraced CEO of Nightingale Properties says he “learned a valuable lesson” about how he shouldn’t be trusted with other people’s money after admitting to a $63M fraud scheme. 

Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz is hoping to avoid jail time after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud in February, which carries a maximum 20-year sentence.

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Good boy, Elie! You learned a lesson.

And now you may go.