“I have known Bobby my whole life; we grew up together,” Caroline Kennedy wrote [ahead of RFK jr’s confirmation hearing]. “It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator…  [Through] the strength of his personality, [other family members followed Kennedy] down the path of drug addiction… His basement, his garage, his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”

She commended Kennedy for “pulling himself out of illness and disease” but lamented that “siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down the path of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness, and death while Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie, and cheat his way through life.”

Brava.

A couple of months ago, he argued that a man who makes under the table payments to women for sex, cheats on his taxes, and so on, should have all cases against him dropped IF he’s an exceptional person – like, frinstance, if he’s the just-elected president of the United States.

Now Goldstein has himself been indicted on “four counts of tax evasion, 10 counts of aiding and assisting the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns, five counts of willful failure to pay taxes, and three counts of making a false statement on a loan application.”

He also seems to have hired women he was shtupping to work at his law firm, where their duties were apparently extremely specialized.

He lived a mile or two from UD, in sooperprestigious Chevy Chase, but then decided he wanted something even prestigiouser — a $2.6 million DC manse — and reportedly committed mortgage fraud to get it.

But all should be forgiven, if you follow his NYT opinion piece about dropping all charges against Trump, because he, like Trump, is a very exceptional individual.

The Amarillo police have tried to get the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to shut down the abattoir where the latest mass shooting in America took place, but TABC’s too drunk to do anything. Or too rich from abattoir bribes. Keep the killing coming!

Background on the lunacy behind the killing at the border. Think Charlie Manson and his gang.

That comfortable majority supports Quebec’s secularism laws, about to be reviewed by the Canadian Supreme Court cuz ain’t it unfair to be secular? Shouldn’t all Canadian provinces be compelled to have identical laws governing things like the wearing of hijabs by public sector employees? “Last year, three judges from Quebec’s Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the [secularism] law,” and it’s “rare for the [Canadian] Supreme Court to take on cases when a lower court of appeal has come to a unanimous decision,” but allons-y! Let’s see if we can go against the will of Quebeckers.

You wouldn’t want to impose any serious closing hours on your bars in a city where every drunk fucker has five guns; better to wait until two AM when everyone’s maximally drunk and concentrated in a chaotic nightclub with other violent people in order to insure a mass shooting.

This keeps happening in our gunniest, stupidest, bloodiest, cities – the late-night lounge loaded with bullets; the hours of bar-boosted boozing; bad behavior that finally gets you thrown out and makes you vengeful blahblahblah. Absolutely by the book. Absolutely happens every weekend somewhere in the states.

Cities with a flicker of brain activity have begun imposing relatively early closing hours on their abattoirs, but apparently Amarillo prides itself on its status as one of America’s most dangerous cities.

An appeals court just ruled that his family’s case against the school can go to trial. WSU, one of the scummiest schools it’s been my duty to follow on this blog, stands around while their frat system hazes like a motherfucker, and if the frats occasionally kill someone so what. But the court says this one has to go to trial.

It’s like that quarter-billion dollar WSU athletics debt. So WHAT. Shut up man.

Wonder how much the settlement of this case will run the school.

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Well. Washington’s a really rich state and can increase WSU funding by a billion next year.

Yeah. Well. UD ain’t no expert, but the two highly dangerous pathetic idiot killers stopped at our northern border last week sure sound like Al Qaeda or similar jihadists. After the 21 year old female killed a border patrol agent, and her bf died trying to kill others, police found all manner of terror equipment in their car.

Plus her story, to the extent we know it, jibes well with other mentally challenged squirts seduced by thoughts of sugarplum fairies and carrying out their very own beheadings.

The idiots were too excited by dressing all in black and brandishing huge guns to hide what they were on about, so every Vermonter who got a load of them called the authorities.

UD figures officials aren’t saying anything because they’re trying like hell to get some worthwhile intelligence out of the surviving idiot. Good luck to them.

You can list the conditions likely to produce a lot of suicides, and you can then find places on earth which meet those conditions, and – ta-da – they’re going to have the world’s highest suicide rates. So let’s see:

1. deracination, alienation, cultural identity crises
2. alcoholism
3. guns
4. isolation
5. cold weather
6. macho autonomous stoic ethos
7. suspicion of outside, therapeutic, government entities
8. so many suicides that there’s a contagion effect

The more of these your location boasts, the more suicide we are likely to see.

And poor Greenland has them all. Here’s a long, thoughtful, piece about it.

News from Turkmenistan.

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SOS says: She’s surprised to see the revert back mistake in the NYT. Just as the phrase chai tea is redundant, so all things that revert revert back, since the meaning of the word is to go back, to return. Chai (it means tea) does the job alone, and so does revert.

I mean, it’s not exactly a mistake; it’s just gauche, like saying irregardless.

And meanwhile, get a load of the incredibly convoluted latest iteration of a settlement with the opiate pushers Purdue/Sacklers. The litigation has been going on for years. We’ve covered in particular here the suffering state of West Virginia, as it dealt with insanely massive over-prescription of Oxy Contin. A disgusting tale.

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Mélanie Laroche, a professor at the Université de Montréal who specializes in the relationships between employers and unions, said Amazon’s decision [to close all of its operations in Quebec, very likely because of imminent unionization,] was not a surprise. 

She said Quebec’s labour laws are more restrictive on businesses than elsewhere. 

Amazon currently recognizes one other union, in Staten Island, N.Y. But it has not yet reached a collective agreement with them.

In Quebec, by contrast, labour law would have obliged the two parties to negotiate a collective agreement and could have imposed arbitration on them. 

“Amazon was probably confronted with that imminent arbitration demand for a first collective agreement and wouldn’t have had a choice but to conclude a collective agreement,” she said.

“They’re deciding to close facilities in a province where perhaps the labour laws are much more restrictive for management.”

As for Quebec’s premier, he says this was a private decision by a private company. Like increasing numbers of politicians around the globe, he’s no Union Maid; and indeed the unionizing forces who generated this unfortunate outcome might have considered not only the growing conservatism in many countries – including their own – but also the quite healthy hourly wage Amazon Quebec employees enjoyed until they all lost their jobs.