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.

… Planes

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.

… Andrew Humiston era.

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From the obituary of Andrew’s father:

Mark is survived by his son Andrew.

Who shot Mark four times at point blank range.

… friends.

Example One: She was chatting with her buddy Peter about Tom Lehrer, and it quickly turned into a competition as to who knew more lyrics and could sing them more convincingly. UD of course won; her parents played and sang Lehrer all through UD’s childhood, and UD has a better voice/vocal memory than Peter.

While UD basked in her victory, Peter said in a musing nostalgic sort of way I remember Tom’s many visits to my parents’ Cambridge house when I was growing up… He was a good friend and very entertaining…

UD bowed to his one-upmanship…

Example Two: Through Peter’s daughter, UD has come to be friends with Alice Hayes, a direct descendent of Rutherford B., and a clerk on the January 6 Committee. Barely out of her twenties, and guilty of nothing, she has just been issued a presidential preemptive pardon!

Preliminary reports suggest a failure of the hotel’s fire alarm system, and a slow response from emergency vehicles.

Whatever happens on Monday, Jan. 20, is not akin to the redemption offered by Jesus Christ. 

When they also run programs, and when it’s a conspiracy, it can be close to impossible.

UCLA – a pretty respectable school – handed the running of its orthodontics school over to a set of buddies who made a point of admitting students from way-rich middle east kingdoms. Once in residence, these students were ordered to come up with, er, supplemental fees in the tens of thousands of dollars, and if they didn’t they’d be out on their oil-rich asses.

Not sure how the school figured out what was going on, but for reasons of its own the school – after throwing the members of the conspiracy out – did nothing by way of prosecution of anyone, and worked hard to keep a report about their malfeasance secret.