Tea, St Regis Hotel, with buddies.
‘St. Louis Sheriff Can’t Run Department from Jail, Judge Rules’

Headline of the day.

Headline of the Day

Republican Mike Lawler plugs ‘lying sack of shit’ Andrew Cuomo for NYC mayor — as ‘lesser of two evils’ over Mamdani

Rainy Halloween Walk, Garrett Park
The Prince to Me a Royal Pain Doth Give

Sing it.

The Prince to me a royal pain doth give,
So saith the throne, else cannot live.
To see the fairest Fergie ne’er again!
Oh yay oh yay (etc.)

A King who reigns, yet keeps his brother nigh,
Must love reject where power best apply
To keep the crown from ruin once again.
Oy veh, oy veh (etc.)

Embedded in his lust, Prince Andrew would instead
Much rather be dethron’d upon his bed,
But once beneath the royal counterpane,
The princeling by his ruler, Sex, is slain,
And so he must be booted to Bahrain.
Inshallah, Inshallah (etc.)

Just SIX years old! And look what he did! All cuz his (now jailed) mother gave him access to a gun.

The footage, which WTKR has chosen not to release, depicts a frenzied, bloody scene, with [Abigail] Zwerner lying on the ground while officers perform life-saving measures.

Why people want their kids to go to private school.

Four different people came forward with concerns to [Vice Principal Ebony] Parker about the student on the day of the shooting, the lawsuit alleges.

During opening statements, [the teacher’s attorney] claimed that Parker did not act on her authority to search the student or remove him from school…

Limerick.
It really don't get any higher
Than naming your college "Messiah" -
In the chapel we praise
In the lockers we haze.
Y'all cannot wait to apply. Ja?


lolololol

The confrontations follow an announcement by Rouhollah Momennasab, secretary of Tehran Province’s Headquarters for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vices, about forming a “Chastity and Hijab Situation Room.”

“With 80,000 trained forces across the province, a major transformation in implementing chastity and hijab policies will take place,” Momennasab said at a news conference.

He called on citizens to join a “people’s observers headquarters” to participate in the monitoring effort.

Momennasab said the situation room will track and analyze cultural and media activities in society, with enforcement strategies communicated to government agencies.

Really?

“No one could have imagined that a 6-year old, first-grade student would bring a firearm into a school,” Parker’s attorney, Daniel Hogan, told jurors. 

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It’ll be fun to watch this one. Of course we’ll cover it on University Diaries.

Fighter jets over DC.

Six in formation shrieked overhead as I stood in front of this building, having made my weekly visit to an almost 100-year-old former Garrett Parker who lives there.

I like to do occasional city walks: I get on the 8:13 MARC train (they rarely charge me anything for it; I think they only want to deal with regulars who flash cards at them, not people who pay cash) and in no time I’m at Union Station, where the government shutdown features a quiet city, the angles of its monumental buildings super-sharp in full sunlight.

I walked from one station (Union St.) to another (Judiciary Sq.), and then metro’ed to Friendship Heights, where, after the visit with my friend, I once again metro’ed home. Mr UD picked me up at our local stop.

I’m now tired and pleasantly chilled.

“Last year, Zara Esmaeili, known for her performances on the streets of Tehran, was taken into custody after a recording emerged of her singing Amy Winehouse’s song ‘Back to Black’ without the mandatory hijab.”

Witty Zara. Finding new meaning in an old song.

‘There’s not much to say about haredi politicians in [the current situation]. They’ve long proven that “Israeli” is a derogatory term for them.’

An Israeli soldier states the grotesque truth.

‘Medicalisation [of FGM] is being normalised, even marketed as part of newborn care in countries like Indonesia and Malaysia.’

Beyond disgusting.

Garrett Park, Halloween.
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