The biggest high school in Massachusetts scares off gobs of its teachers and really can’t operate anymore with all the violence: A committee there has requested National Guard protection.
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Antioch Library in Contra Costa County is in emergency shutdown: Same chaos/violence/crime/drugs/public sex as Brockton High. Staff scared witless. Details, if you can stomach them.
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What? Whaddaya want me to say?
Here’s a couple of things.
Contemptible local/state politicians made it happen, outright deny it, or insist they had no idea and if they’d known they would of course have solved the problem lickety split.
Everyone at these two places knows it’s a matter of time before guns add to the fun. It’s amazing it hasn’t already happened.
… Daniel DeWispelare, whose untimely death has been a terrible shock to the department. I knew him only a little bit, but was always struck by his sweetness. He was apparently a spectacular teacher and scholar.
Ouch. Students at University Nevada Reno are embarrassed. The DEAN of their engineering school “has routinely used the pay-to-publish journal he owns as an outlet for subpar and even nonsensical papers, with the effect of drastically inflating his apparent productivity.” They want the … entrepreneur (more details here) to resign, which he certainly won’t do, and which the school won’t pressure him to do — mainly because it’s just a terrible school, and it’s unlikely to know or care what research misconduct is.
Fine list of schools there, and who knew they all house mouse-killing factories? Who knew all of these fine schools host entire departments that acquire animals, give them cancer, write pretend articles about them, and then kill them? Cue Lenny, Of Mice and Men …
It seems a demoralizing sort of thing to do with the tax money you and I fork over… Makes us feel like idiots to know that for sixteen years we’ve been subsidizing bigtime a pointless bloody charade, a riot of animal torture in the name of careerism.
But at least the research fraud at Columbia University has seriously set back progress toward a cure for cancer! That much at least we can take pride in!
Yes. I was sitting up in bed, reading, when the house shook and I heard a boom. It was loud enough that I got up and went outside, where I saw my across the street neighbor on his porch, doing exactly what I was doing.
… no lower age limit on the carry and use of any gun.
“The only limit I can think of,” remarked Rep. Travis Smithson (Pemiscot), “is you know say a five year old… He’s going to have trouble hoisting and shooting an AK 47, but we’re also calling for non-mandatory training sessions for toddlers, pre-teens, and teenagers in the handling of assault rifles. It’s also pretty clear these boys the other day didn’t have body armor, which is important for self-defense while shooting. Training sessions will introduce our state’s shooters to various forms of protection.”
The cofounder of the Seasteading Institute is Peter Thiel, who is also currently attempting to develop remote property in New Zealand with the hope of establishing a haven for a “cognitive elite” of “sovereign individuals” (clearly inspired by Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged). As [Douglas] Rushkoff points out, these entrepreneurs have always regarded the public and civic sectors as “antagonistic to their grand designs.” The creators of projects like ReGen and Seasteading have no interest in sustainable living or alleviating economic inequality. What they want is their own personal sandbox, unrestrained by governments, judicial oversight, or the collective will. These start-up societies reflect, if nothing else, a desire to create a new world from scratch and then choose who gets to be a part of it.
Let’s see if we can figure out what this was. Er, Kansas City is incrediblybloody. Guns going off all the time killing everyone in sight. So we can hardly be surprised by this massacre, no? We should probably be grateful there weren’t bunches of little massacres popping out all over the parade.
As to motive… LOL. Motive. A bunch of drunk/high assholes, average age 18, got excited, started tussling and talking shit, and one got pissed off but really just wanted to pull out his AK 47 and for once USE the fucker rather than just shlep it around with him everywhere. That’s my guess.
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Update #2: So far your blogeuse is exactly right. But then she’s been following American carnage for a long time and knows how these things go. Sixteen year olds are totally welcome to openly carry machine guns in Missouri; the legislature totally loves streets running with the blood of dead and dying toddlers. It’s the Missouri way.
