Round and round they go about what an absolutely irresistible thing the property is.

But it hasn’t sold; and they’re auctioning it off for (relative) peanuts, and maybe even the auction will fail.

Strange.

When I wrote this post a few days ago, only a few outlets took notice of the great generosity of the Wallace Global Fund toward the eradication of female genital mutilation. The story has now jumped, as it should, to the Guardian. Next stop, one hopes, the NYT.

… Leslie Whittington.

The federal appeals court in Nawlins boasts a lot of holy rollers, and they’re not about to let the odd Supreme Court precedent get in the way of forcing the Ten Commandments into every public classroom in their state.

Looziana “has assumed the authority to determine and declare religious truth in violation of the Establishment Clause.” Says here.

It’s heartland America – Oklahoma – where folks leave their kids alone with loaded guns.

Resulting in the rather odd outcome of an eleven year old girl arrested for second degree murder. Of her brother.

… it’s going to be harder to shoot all your political enemies to death.

New term for shooters “trigger-pullers.”

[The Louisiana State University] administration has “no meaningful control” over [coach Lane] Kiffin or the LSU football program.

‘An estimated 32 million children in the United States live in homes with firearms, nearly 7 million of whom have at least one firearm in the household that’s unlocked and loaded.’

All universities have sandblast embarrassments.

This blog has covered tons of schools on the receiving end of what turn out to be criminal donations.

When the eminent donor, whose name may emblazon an entire school, emerges into the light of day as a dirty little rat, there’s much to be done. Sandblast his name, for sure; but damage control will be far more than this. There’s not merely the obvious pr disaster to negotiate; there’s the matter of the school now having to return what might be tens of millions of buckaroos. That hurts.

Temple University for some reason is always blasting its walls, rescinding its honorary degrees, and forcing bad boys off the board of trustees.

The latest miscreant.

That was March of this year, and, if you read the whole thing, the feds were already sniffing around.

They got him.

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Details, if you’ve got the stomach.

Orpheus with his loot made trees   
And the mountain tops that freeze   
  Bowed themselves when he did bring   
To massive plants and flowers   
Private jets and rotorcraft, as sun and showers 
  There had made a lasting spring.   
  
Everything was brought by crane  
E’en the baobabs of Barbary.
  We shook our heads and then lay by.   
In grasping music is such art, 
  Prompting care and grief of heart … 
  We fall silent, or hearing, die. 

https://poets.org/poem/orpheus-0

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/style/the-latest-wealth-flex-big-trees.html

… or you think this a twisted and destructive point of view. You think the message this transmits to a child – your primary identity is as a dark sexual object which, for the sake of erotically uncontrolled men, must be veiled – is wounding and perverse. You also think, more generally, that parents have no right to impose things like porny veiling on children who have no say in the matter.

For folks like UD, and for the people of Austria, a hijab ban on schoolgirls under 14 is an obvious and humane law, and as of a couple of days ago, it went into effect.

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Meanwhile, the dummies in England…

For background, and for ground rules, go here.

In this example, the expensive car is featured in the headline; The Grove, an expensive eatery, appears in the second paragraph, and, in many accounts, Fairfax, the expensive neighborhood where it happened, is prominently mentioned.

… Manassas.

They sue on behalf of professors whose free speech rights have been violated by mindless ideologues at universities. Professors like this computer science guy at U Wash who made fun of the land acknowledgement language that the university urged instructors to put on all their syllabi. Said jesting made somebody significant there vewy vewy mad and the school put the prof under investigation and tried to fire him for harassment blahblahblahblah.

“The University of Washington settlement shows the price of campus humorlessness.”

FIRE of course won its suit, and the university had to settle $600,000 on him — money which by rights should have gone to the head football coach, who only makes $7.5 million plus a million and a half of bonuses if he figures out how to cheat the team to respectable grades (the school’s president makes a little under a million).