‘Lox & Loaded Gun Club Aims for Self-Defense for Jewish Community‘
Took a LONG time and a LONG list of undeserved grants and titles and shit (all of it based on his now-revealed-as-bogus Native American identity) for people to pay attention to the work of the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, which states:
‘Klopotek has zero Indian ancestry. TAAF found that he is of only European ancestry. When TAAF asked him to document his claim to being Choctaw or to simply identify who he believes is his ancestor who is Choctaw, Klopotek chose not to respond at all to TAAF’s queries... TAAF asks that Klopotek publicly declare in writing that he is not Choctaw, explain his past actions in full, acknowledge the harm he has done, redress this harm, resign from his UO faculty position, and return, with interest, the funds he has received from lying about being Indian.‘
Look at his list of money awards! How do you say monetize, kemosabe?
Asking the dude to give it back would be like asking Bernie Madoff (may his memory be a malediction) to please claw back the sixty five billion he stole, with interest, please.
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Klopotek offers the old Mention My Name in Sheboygan defense: Folks back home know I’m really Indian and that’s all that matters, assholes.
‘At various points, Harry instructed Sophie on light exposure, hydration, movement, mindfulness and meditation, nutrient-rich foods, gratitude lists and journaling to cope with her anxiety. Harry, who has neither nostrils nor opposable thumbs, spent a fair amount of time describing the particulars of alternate nostril breathing.‘
The mother of a young woman who killed herself discovers, posthumously, that she confided only in ChatGPT (“Harry”) as she declined.
Love the idea of Iran dedicating hundreds of millions to its R U INVISIBLE, FEMALE? technology; love even more our Treasury saying fuck you go ahead but we’ll try to make it hurt.
Pasargad Arian Information and Communication Technology Company is currently working on clitoral recognition surveillance tools [CRST] that will detect a still-intact clitoris. Once detected, the organ will be targeted by flesh-searing drones.
It’s like – what sort of city lets that happen? Has no control of locations that WILL be mass murder sites? It’s like it’s … a fucking menu for mass murder. UD doesn’t get it.
A fare evasion arrest on the Metro has riled up some District leaders and community members after a video circulating online shows Metro Transit Police pinning a woman to the ground at the Navy Yard station.
… stand for the hundreds of millions of women around the Muslim world getting their clits ripped off and their vaginal lips stitched closed at birth.
Franchement, Dear Reader, UD can barely stand to cover the ongoing sickening global atrocity of FGM; but when a newborn bleeds out because her sexual organs were slashed to bits in the name of Allah, it’s kind of hard to keep quiet. At least this event is disgusting enough to get significant world coverage; at least the three lower than dirt women who held down an infant and slit her up the middle and watched her die have been charged.
But it’s Gambia and listen. You don’t know shit about little Gambia, but close to one hundred percent of its babies and girls get their genitals slashed off.
Oh Egypt? Egypt, you say? Pretty much the same statistic there, guys. And Egypt’s all big and we’ve heard of it and all. Same slitting them down the middle.
Oh England? Really?? England tries hard to detect and punish FGM among its Muslim population, but unless a hospital ends up with a bloodied dead baby nothing much will be detected.
… FGM kills 44 000 girls each year according to recent research, which analysed 15 African countries. This means that FGM is a bigger cause of death than malnutrition, measles, meningitis, HIV/Aids, and many other health threats for girls in the 15 countries studied... The global figure for deaths from FGM is likely to be much higher than 44 000, when all populations are included—particularly those from Indonesia, Somalia, Somaliland, and Sudan, which have a high prevalence of FGM... [The practice is still legal in] Mali, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Somalia.
It’s the little stories, the overlooked minor social interactions, that make gun-gorged America what it is; and ol’ UD definitely sees it as part of her blog-mandate to share some of these with you. Otherwise you’re unlikely to grasp what it actually means to live in a country with five hundred million guns. You’re unlikely to get a feel for the homeland’s daily communal reality. You’re likely to content yourself with being spooked by mass shootings; but there’s so much more to The American Story.
Tiffs over parking spots, for instance, can end in gunplay now.
Perry [Georgia] police say Anna McPherson confronted VanWormer [the article only gives her last name] over a parking spot and pulled a gun during the dispute, aiming it at both the mother and child.
McPherson banged on VanWormer’s window with the firearm and continued the threat… . [At one point, she] looked at VanWormer’s son and said, “You’re about to be motherless.”
‘Course she was bonded out asap without anyone notifying VanWormer, who gets to continue panicking about this fucker hunting her down. And yes the POS faces some charges, but Georgia’s judges love guns FAR too much to put away a nice lady with a Glock.

… that the very active paper wasp nest just outside the living room is now gone, after chemical warfare was initiated.
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UD‘s sister discovered the thing.
The wise Finns move toward uncovering their poor burqa’ed children. Brava.
There’s a very special ick factor in play when Jesus directly aids and abets sexual abuse, when his holy writ is quoted in direct support of the rape of teenagers. “This is God’s will for you,” instructs Hayle Swinson’s spiritual teacher as he scrounges in her panties.
“I asked myself why was this God’s will for me to be violated?”
Hayle’s either a bit slow on the uptake, or deep in the weeds of theodicy here, as she lets Pastor Brad have his – the Lord’s? – way with her.
One … email [to her] featured a dream in which he and Swinson were laying [the writer means lying] on a beach; as he began making love to her, he began praying and their spirits were united spiritually.
Pastor Brad, who held a high position at some Baptist something, was a notorious sexual nutcase, but the school ignored it all, including a petition fifty students filed about him with the administration.
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UD thanks Andrew.
David sends UD news of a just-built $62 million high school football stadium down Georgia way.
One of the stadium’s boosters justifies the expense by pointing out that, for example, the innovative seating arrangement lets the whole family hear sixteen year olds get CTE concussions in real time.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s editor poses the question – rather undiplomatically – and we all know the answer:
This is America! Hell, yes!

“Eisenhower in the Footsteps of Hitler,” 1951.
He could do anything as an artist, including turn sweet dull old Ike into a blood-dripping demon.
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
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It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
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There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
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Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
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University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
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As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
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Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
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