Teeth, Wren: UD’s garden, early June.

Jawbone of a deer? Ever-present anti-mosquito spray. Pointless attractive teapot.

Gray watering can contains wren sitting on her eggs.

Blue!

The latest excavated room in Pompeii is some kind of wonderful.

I, UD, present…

IUD.

The only remaining question is why we ever let this happen.

DEI is DOA; but why was this brain-eating beast allowed to stalk our land in the first place?

 MIT announced a similar decision last month, saying it would stop requiring diversity statements for positions across the university.

… [Harvard] Psychology professor Steven A. Pinker, a co-president of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard, slammed diversity statements in a December 2023 Boston Globe op-ed, arguing that they “purge the next generation of scholars of anyone who isn’t a woke ideologue or a skilled liar.”

As usual, Pinker emerges a hero. But I tell you. The shit that guy has to put up with to defend free speech…

The only thing missing was the gun massacre.

UD‘s hopeless, hapless, Montgomery County could do nothing the other night as one of Potomac’s vast empty mcmansions hosted a pay as you go ‘Wet Dreams’ party for over a thousand. “Where are the whores?” nearby home owners report guests shouting on entry. “I think it was a sex party,” said the neighborhood’s state delegate.

Capitalism being what it is, an owner is free to furnish her house, leave, and rent the thing out as a big ol’ brothel (or is the brothel thing legal?); and there’s nothing like Potomac, full of massive empty or semi-empty mcmansions, for this purpose.

[One] couple called county police, but were not satisfied with the response. They said the one officer who responded was helpful and listened to their concerns, but said he wasn’t able to do much.

“The police should’ve shut this thing down,” [the neighbor] said. “We’re really darn lucky an incident didn’t happen.”

Huh yeah an incident and you better believe the Moco police did nothing about it out of sheer terror. Airbnb mass shootings and the like happen a lot; there’s a HUGE number of guns at these parties. Only an idiot would walk in on five hundred heavily armed post-coital drunks and druggies lolling about a pool.

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UPDATE: Gets prettier and prettier. “Multiple neighbors told FOX 5, the owner of the home told them there would be a party on May 25. It wouldn’t be the only one. In order to offset “inordinate” personal legal costs, the homeowner said she planned to host both large-scale events and family gatherings.”

The idiot is now looking forward to much more serious legal costs.

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UPDATE: Are we surprised it’s becoming a bigger story? Let’s see: Sex, wealth, Potomac, drugs, drink, a rancid owner, sordid Airbnb (one point subtracted, however, for no gunplay)… UD might have glombed onto “Wet Dreams” early, cuz this is close to where she lives, and she spent years visiting her aunt and uncle in their own vast lifeless Potomac mcmansion, but it was always going to break free from obscurity because of its unbeatable plot elements. And wait until some of the partiers begin to talk!

The new heroine of the pronatalist movement in the US and around the world is Lauren Bobert…

… whose masturbation of her partner in a public theater is the kind of civic activity we need to see more of if we are going to avoid the coming demographic disaster.

Bobert has inspired the movement’s new slogan – IT’S THE HANDJOBBERY, STUPID! – which has begun appearing on t shirts and bumper stickers as the pronatalists seek to draw Americans’ attention to quick and easy steps toward insemination.

Wow, New Mexico.

Fourth in the nation for non-suicide death by gun. Fourth in the nation for suicide by gun.

No wonder the Gov... etc etc etc…

Theological Exchange, X

Our country is at a crossroads. What we saw today has never happened before, and I think for the majority of Americans, it raises questions about whether our legal system can be trusted. Pray for our nation, for God‘s guiding hand that this republic will be one nation under God.

FRANKLIN GRAHAM

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Please pray that God restores our right to pay off porn stars to hush them up and to create fake records to cover up the payoff.

GEORGE CONWAY

‘Mr. D’Souza did not immediately respond to a request for comment.’

Far right Christian fanatic Dinesh D’Souza made a whole film that followed evil ballot-stuffers around the country as they stole the election from Jesus H. Trump.

Now that its claims turn out to be bullshit, D’Souza can’t be found, even by the New York Times.

His producer, under humongously expensive legal pressure from defamed non-stuffers, has issued a desperate apology, but D’Souza – an avid and lunatic conspiracy theorist – stands his ground.

The defamation cases won’t yield the way-whopping settlement Dominion Voting Systems got ($787 mill), but I’m sure they’ll do well.

‘U-Va.had been aware of [Christopher] Jones before the shooting. A student had reported in September 2022 that Jones said he had a gun, and a threat-assessment team at the university had begun looking into him. That team learned that Jones had been convicted of a misdemeanor concealed-weapon violation the previous year. Jones declined to cooperate with university officials’ inquiries, and in late October 2022 they informed him he faced disciplinary action.’

But UVa acted too slowly. It was still futzing with Jones when he massacred fellow students, and settlements with families of the killed and injured were announced today.

The fallout from the verdict begins.

Lara Trump has immolated herself in front of George Soros’ Westchester estate.

Her final words were an appeal to MAGA patriots to fight the “Soros-backed conspiracy destroying this country.”

As long as people like Annabelle Jenkins are willing to live in Idaho, all is not lost.

But now that she’s done with high school she’s probably hoofing it out of there for a respectable college.

Quo vadis Qwo-Li?

Will this remarkable, all-encompassing fraud ever get the boot from Oregon State?

“[I]f I tried to tell … my Harvard law school students [why the Trump verdict was all wrong], I’d be booed, … because they would love this verdict, because lawyers today — young lawyers today don’t care about justice. They just want their side to win.”

So – Alan Dershowitz, Harvard’s most embarrassing emeritus, would not be booed. He would be laughed at. Not just for his take on Trump; for a complaint about other people not caring about justice coming from the most cynical, mercenary lawyer this side of Saul Goodman.

While listening to him, both male and female students would also be cupping their genitals protectively, because Dershowitz is a ginormous genital mutilation enthusiast.

‘Cuz I’m guilty. Baby, I’m guilty.’

‘And I’ll be guilty for the rest of my life…’

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