‘The crisis of suicides among older adults is inextricably linked with guns. Older Americans use a gun in a suicide attempt significantly more often than younger people. And guns are the most lethal method of attempting suicide.‘

It doesn’t have the force of law, but indicates where things may be headed.

… in their lawsuit against the fuckwit who keeps insisting she’s a man.

UD‘s touched by their naivete. Their nemesis is from pre-science. She’s ante-antediluvian. She’s farther gone than Robert Kennedy Jr.

La France is of course the great country of rationalists — Descartes etc etc etc etc. — and it would never occur to people like the Macrons that high-profile pundits in any nation would actually have no knowledge of logic, empiricism, enlightenment, rationality, objectivity… UD will admit that it also took her a long time to accept this. Living in the modern world, it is close to impossible to believe that millions of people, especially in an advanced setting, have never encountered scientific method. But it is quite true.

UD wishes the Macrons luck in their defamation lawsuit.

Sounds like a Dorothy Sayers title.

And a yoga studio on the first floor, for the contemplation of non-attachment.

UD loves found poetry, and this decasyllabic morsel, describing my magnolia, and confirming what I’ve noticed – that it’s a “favorite food of catbirds” – is a perfect example.

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Haiku?

Seed pod of sweet-bay
Magnolia tree, trembling.
Not wind.  A cat bird.

https://www.kalb.com/2025/09/15/actor-charged-after-shooting-woman-face-road-rage-incident-police-say

‘It is a thing of pride and recognition … [G]irls who are mutilated have become women.‘

Or, you know, babies who are mutilated have become corpses.

The Holocaust was somewhere in her have mercy keep me outta jail letter too; plus, even though she did effing EVERYTHING she could think of not to get caught, it turns out she’s full of shame despair and general poignancy when she reflecteth upon her Madoffian crimelife.

Give it a read – Ms Javice basically gets as close as you can get to saying YOU CAN’T JAIL ME I’M A WOMAN!!! — a remarkable sentiment for a person who – until JP Morgan figured out she robbed them of $175 million – was an icon of the tough as nails young financial genius. My grannies are dying! I wanna baby!

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How did I manage to miss this chick earlier?

‘But, How Will She Teach Pilates in an Ankle Monitor?‘

‘While permitless carrying may have some effect on deterring offences like robberies, it is inadequate in the face of grievance and politically driven violence, said Brandon del Pozo, an assistant professor of medicine and health policy at Brown University.

“The deterrence effect of concealed carry only applies to rational actors. And you get to a point in political extremism where you’re not dealing with rational people,” he said...

[C]ities and states where many residents are armed in public can fail to account for the large presence of concealed guns and to plan to provide an accompanying level of screening.

“In places like Utah where there’s going to be a lot of guns in circulation, you have to decide when you’re going to carve out spaces where people are screened for guns,” [del Pozo] added.

“And if you’re a small police department, it’s hard to secure something outdoors. But if you’re coming to a provocative political rally, you need to be screened.”’

Sing it!

Women!

Women are the people

They’re the people that people

Come out of…

We’re almost there, mes petites! We’re THAT close to arriving at Tom Lehrer’s lines!

‘Leaked Plans Show Pentagon Eyeing Louisiana to Deploy National Guard‘

We’re only one state over. Ne quittez pas.

So notes The Guardian, which then quotes Hasan Piker:

“A bulletproof vest would not have saved Charlie Kirk. Security did not save Charlie Kirk. The only thing that could have potentially saved Charlie Kirk from getting shot in the neck was reasonable gun control.”

Then it quotes Josh Sugarmann:

Josh Sugarmann, executive of the Violence Policy Center which has tracked the proliferation of the sniper subculture, sees its growth as part of the increasing militarization of the gun industry and its civilian offerings. “No one notices or seems to care that there is an industry actively designing and building the weapons that enable shooters to more effectively commit assassinations and mass shootings,” he said.

“The gun industry is designing, building and promoting rifles that are effective at much longer range with the goal of ‘one shot, one kill’.”

Open carry laws make it particularly hard to secure public events because the visible presence of firearms creates a dangerous ambiguity. Law enforcement can’t easily distinguish between a person legally carrying a weapon and someone preparing to commit violence. This ambiguity slows down response times, heightens the risk of mistakes and can turn routine security situations into potential crises. It unequivocally makes it harder for law enforcement to do their jobs, and it puts them at greater risk of harm.

… [V]isible guns at gatherings can intimidate participants, escalate tensions and even deter people from attending altogether, undermining the safety and openness of community spaces — especially when open carry can be, and has been, used by extremist groups as a tool to intimidate others at protests or public gatherings.

[Utah] students as young as 18 can openly carry guns on college campuses … and the state also allows concealed weapons on Utah’s campuses.

[M]ost Americans — including conservatives and gun owners — actually feel less safe when more people are carrying guns in public. [The gun] industry has a singular solution for this fear: Just buy a gun. 

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Abundant, visible, guns make the assassin’s job easier.

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 ‘[A]sk yourself what somebody was doing carrying a large hunter’s rifle around a university campus.

… Did Utah’s weak gun laws kill Charlie Kirk? We can’t say that. But weak gun laws probably made his death more likely. Kirk’s admirers will do his legacy no favors if they continue to oppose gun control. Better that they join the rest of us in working to prevent the next Charlie Kirk from meeting the same awful fate.’

Let this comment, from the incoming president of the Oxford Union (!), stand for all the vile statements many people are making about Kirk’s assassination. The Oxford Union used to be a pretty classy outfit; why they’re handing it over to someone dissolute enough to publish something like this is a mystery.