Excluding Tesla purchases from his province’s electric rebate policy as an antiemetic. LOLOLOLOL

The UN has set a ridiculous target of ending female genital mutilation by 2030, and it’s time to get honest: If you can’t end the practice, at least end that target. In the few countries where the village butcher faces possible (faintly possible) criminal charges, much of the activity has simply been medicalized: doctors do it in their offices, like America’s own Hopkins med grad, Jumana Nagarwala, who did it right here, in and around Detroit, and who, with the help of Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz, beat the charges against her, and I assume is still at it.

Hell, Gambia almost legalized it last year. Entire religious communities in Africa and Asia make FGM the very core of their tribal practice: No initiation without it. European countries with significant immigrant/Muslim communities are always putting this and that set of parents in jail, or deporting this or that young man found to have transported his twelve year old bride to be back to the homeland for cutting. It don’t make no nevermind – the global slashing at clitorises and vaginal lips and surrounding tissues thrives.

And yes, yes – keep funding grassroots efforts… But UD wonders whether an additional effort might be a good idea. Among Western elites, a depraved form of relativism, plus an understandable eagerness to look away – far away – from this repellent and disturbing behavior, has meant that people with money and power have long since backed off from FGM. Of course they don’t want to think about the fact that huge, huge, numbers of people in the world believe female sexuality to be an unspeakable abomination which must be rooted out, dug out, ground out, gutted, at the cost of lifelong pain/debility and grotesque deformation. And the sooner the better – there is no lower age limit to the practice. Britain has seen several cases of parents slashing their infants.

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It’s I dunno you know just really uh icky … almost kind of unbelievable that hundreds of millions of men in the world think the possibility of women deriving sexual pleasure is a demonic nightmare which must be fought with every sharp stone we can muster. Think of Norman Bates slashing at Marion Crane, only for Marion Crane substitute an unanesthetized splay-legged eight year old being slashed repeatedly between her legs. Yuck. You and I live in a pretty world where we’d really rather not…

What if the anti-FGM forces targeted us? Made a real effort to make us care?

‘[John] Adamo was known for being “very obnoxious,” and frequently sat in his garage blasting heavy metal at extremely high volumes.

“There were definitely arguments [with his closest neighbors] that led up to this,” [a neighbor] said.

Adamo was a “combative alcoholic” who ripped down a surveillance camera mounted on [his neighbors’] home before squeezing off the first round [of gunfire that practically killed the husband and wife who made him angry]…

[T]he dispute [has] been simmering for years, and … it involved multiple cameras pointed at Adamo’s home, as well as a sign out front, reading, “PRIVATE PROPERTY, NO TRESPASSING,” with the words, “Mr. and Ms. Adamo!!!!” handwritten underneath.

“It’s been a running feud,” another neighbor told the Post. “And John’s a nut. There was always friction… This has been going on for years.”

Adamo, too, had cameras pointed at [his neighbors’] house…

Adamo, a Brooklyn native who used to work on Wall Street but was reportedly doing construction work in recent times, was estranged from his family due to his drinking and friction involving his late father’s estate…‘

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After a standoff with police, Adamo was found in his bedroom, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Of course a man like John Adamo had guns.

No surprise to readers of this blog.

Husband: “Across UW-Madison, … less than 3% of employees annually receive bonuses. In [DEI chief Levar] Charleston’s division, he approved bonuses to 85% of his staff without consulting senior leadership. [M]ore than half of the division’s 71 employees had already received a bonus in the previous year… Between Dec. 1, 2023, and Nov. 30, 2024, Charleston also approved salary increases ranging from 10% to 23% for 12 employees… Charleston’s division spent the most on travel, training and events of any unit on campus — about $11,000 per employee in 2024. Other divisions averaged about $3,300 per employee.

… Travel and event spending rose sharply compared to previous years. The division spent $1.2 million in 2019. This ballooned to $1.7 million in 2023 and $2.65 million in 2024.

Supply spending also increased, from $326,00 in 2019 to nearly $600,000 in both 2023 and 2024. Some of the expenses were questionable, [a] report said.

Among the charges: $18,000 for student massage therapy services, $21,000 for a senior leadership retreat at a Lake Geneva resort, $14,000 for Maui lodging costs for seven students and staff for recruitment purposes.

He also faces accusations of research misconduct.

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Wife: Faces credible accusations of plagiarism.

New Kennedy Center, new repertoire.

… that.‘ Ayatollah Khomeini 

You can identify some of this nation’s scummiest universities by their unwavering tolerance of the most psychotically sadistic fraternities imaginable. Readers of this blog already know the University of Central Florida as one of academia’s bottommost dwellers; but did you know that Sigma Chi at UCF has now been credibly accused of running over its pledges?

Fraternity brothers at Sigma Chi allegedly hit pledges with a car as part of a hazing ritual now under investigation by the University of Central Florida, according to an incident report obtained by the Orlando Sentinel late Wednesday.

A sorority member whose house sits next door to Sigma Chi’s told police she heard yelling, saw a car strike a young man and then heard someone shout “help!” and “my bones, my bones, they’re broken,” the report said.

Hoo boy. They are looking at another two-week suspension.

‘A White House official confirmed [Dave] Weldon’s nomination [for CDC head] was pulled, but did not offer an explanation about why.’

“The war has sublimated the rage seething beneath the surface to the needs of national security,” writes Yair Rosenberg of an Israeli public infuriated about the continued subsidizing of a population which refuses to defend the country because it considers Israel the enemy.

[A University of Connecticut professor’s] travel expenses include three Disney trips. A travel request described the purpose of one such trip as visiting the Central Florida State Archives.

[The professor] later confirmed that she did not go to the archives, investigators say.

Instead, … she visited the park [with her children] to look at the experience of Disney and how it sanitizes American history…

[The professor] also used school money on a trip to Northern Ireland in November of 2023. [She] got married there, but claimed the entire trip was work-related, according to the compliance report.

She told university staff that she was married at 9:30 in the morning at city hall in Belfast, and that it only took 20 minutes …

[M]any of the trips took place when [she] was supposed to be teaching classes.

You’ll be relieved to hear that although strictly speaking the fight started inside the terminal – at a crowded baggage claim – they moved it outside when the AK47s started up. Admittedly, if you’d been at the airport window that their guns blew out, you’d have been killed, but as it happened no one was standing by that window.

As our country argues the advantages of American colonization to various of the world’s nations, it shouldn’t forget to mention a way of life which rivals only Haiti.

“Tesla is in Freefall”

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Elon, are you grieving

Over Golden Tess unleaving?

Cars, like the things of man, you

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

Ah! as the DOGE grows older

We will come to such cars colder

By and by, nor spare a sigh

Though worlds of wood trim leafmeal lie;

And yet you will weep and know why.

Now no matter, Musk, the name:

Falling stocks are aflame.

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed

What markets heard of, investors guessed:

It is the panic Tess was born for,

It is Elon you mourn for.

How clever of us to contain populations about whom we cannot collect any data.

The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. “Everybody has to die,” he said...

The guy is writing Richard Dawkins’ next book for him.

For Peter and his family, the loss of their daughter is a private tragedy, one that would be excruciating no matter how she died. The fact that she died of measles, though, is a sign that something has gone wrong with the country’s approach to public health. Twenty-five years ago, measles was declared “eliminated” in the United States. Now a deadly crisis is unfolding in West Texas.

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Total Praise: Peter forgot the most precious part of God’s creation. God created Peter’s daughter’s measles so that she could become a disease vector and spread it all over west Texas. Praise Him.

… for a brief visit. Blogging continues.