Even in the pages of theocrat-friendly First Things, they’re already pissing on Viktor’s grave…

I mean, dat was fast. Integralism, with its coercive religious state replacing liberal democracy, is not even being afforded a proper funeral, for chrissake, and both its Menchevik and Bolshevik wings are flailing. Orban was their ticket to a gender-adjusted, permapreg USA, and now the Federalist Fertility Clinic is leaking sperm deposits out of every pore. GOING OUT OF WHIZNESS.

Orbán’s illiberal democracy, which he has spent the past sixteen years embedding in the institutions and culture of Hungarian national life, looks set to be dissolved by a successor keen to embrace all the European Union diktats Orbán’s ascendancy was predicated on opposing. On how a postliberal order can be developed into a society organized around material and spiritual virtue, integralism has few convincing answers. On how such an order would be maintained against the vicissitudes of democracy, it has no answers. 

And hey look at the dude’s last paragraph. Turns out – wait for it -the secular liberal state is your best bet if you want to be a big ol’ Catholic! Whodathunkit.

Integralists will not like hearing it, but there is already a means by which to live faithfully, extol the doctrines of the Church, and contribute to the forging of a common good society. Their old enemy, liberalism, properly understood, gives the Catholic holder of public office the freedom to live a life integrated to the eternal verities and ordered to virtue, while exercising temporal power under the law with ex officio neutrality, and promoting a culture conducive to religious devotion in which the faithful are secure from coercive state secularism. It is an imperfect model, it does not always deliver victory, and its concepts and mechanisms have been directed to un-Christian and anti-Christian ends and will be again. That is all the more reason to fight for the proper understanding and application of liberalism, and thus the right and ability of the faith to flourish in “enemy” territory, rather than taking the political Catholic tradition out of the mainstream and into the coercive, authoritarian fringe. 

… proud.

… her wonderful Joyce collection, accumulated over many decades.

Mass shootings in 2026

.. and, once he reaches the breaking point he TOLD people he was reaching, he takes one of his guns (Louisiana is certainly not going to deprive violent insane gunnies of their guns) and murders eight children.

One of them was found on a roof, having tried to escape.

Ah, Shreveport. Ah, Louisiana. Insane massacrists go down as easy as a mint julep in ol’ Shreveport, Land of the Rising Gun.

Dominedominedomine let’s pray our little heads off.

Ahhhh. That was great.

Back to the pistol range.

Tim King, the former leader of the Urban Prep charter schools who resigned in 2022 amid sexual misconduct allegations, now faces federal charges alleging he embezzled more than $100,000 in school funding.

As one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, it’s constantly scrambling to find replacements for filthy high-ranking officials stupid enough to get caught.

Makarios Lazaridis was up this month to pinch-hit for one of the Farming Scandal officials suddenly out of a job, but now he’s out too because of his peculiarly Greek personal history.

Last job he had was high-ranking science advisor to the New Democracy education minister; but once elevated to post-farm-scandal Deputy Ag Minister, he attracted enough press attention for someone to notice that he didn’t even have a legitimate BA, much less a PhD.

Oopsies.

I mean ούπς.

But – in the sort of detail your blogueuse LOVES – when Lazaridis left his expert scientist job, he was “instantly [replaced] by his wife.”

Instantly, mes petites!

After last year’s shooting, Davis CA has prepared for its carefree outing with:

A fleet of drones

Extra police

Doubled event staff people

Increased penalties

Alcohol ban

No special event permits in the vicinity

Designated safety enhancement zones

Sniff-sniff. I mean… AS IF. As if Ken Griffin, who as of 2019 (this list must be way out of date) owns

the most expensive home in America, a $238-million Manhattan penthouse. According to Bloomberg, he already owns two floors of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Chicago ($30 million), a Miami Beach penthouse ($60 million), another Chicago penthouse ($58.75 million) and another apartment in Manhattan ($40 million).

… as if this guy is going to lower himself to respond to the mayor of NY choosing to announce “a [proposed] annual fee on luxury properties valued above $5 million whose owners do not live in New York full-time” while standing in front of Griffin’s always empty four-floor penthouse.

Griffin did feel compelled to make a statement awhile back, when people noticed the emptiness.

[His apartment is] not a short-term investment, but a home where [Ken] Griffin will spend considerable time, said Zia Ahmed, his spokesman.

I don’t follow the guy around, but far as I can tell he’s spent somewhere between zero and zero days in his warm authentic inviting home.

Construction crews rebuilding the sepulchre to Griffin’s invisibility standard have, however, moved in for the long haul, and neighbors have not been happy, all these years, about the noise.

Given all this civic yumminess, it’s no surprise that Mamdani chose Griffin’s sarcophagus as ground zero.

 The practice is not religious and thus not protected by Article 25 or 26. Even if it were, it cannot be constitutionally protected; it is a form of torture that results in the permanent dismemberment of a girl-child’s body, leading to long-term psychological and physical suffering, and can result in death. The Court must separate the constitutionality of FGM from issues of religious freedom…

The respondents argue that FGM is “an integral part” of the Bohra religion. This is patently untrue. Even if it were true, no claim of religious freedom can justify a violation of bodily integrity, human dignity, or fundamental rights. Under the SC’s jurisprudence, even if a practice is intrinsic to a religion, it cannot supersede other essential fundamental rights, particularly the right to life. The respondents argue that the right to life is not implicated by FGM as it is voluntary. This is a flawed interpretation, as consent has no bearing on the right to life. And no child can provide informed consent at age seven…

Hope now rests with [the Indian Supreme Court] to expressly reaffirm the grave illegality of this practice.

Maya Nirula

… and now this.

A breakaway radical Christian sect has, in the wake of super-natalist Viktor Orban’s defeat, turned its attention to super-natalist JD Vance, and in particular to his wife’s latest pregnancy. The belief seems to be that Vance’s wife is carrying the Second Coming of Christ, which will mark the end of the world. Crèches featuring the Second Lady cradling her newborn have begun appearing in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee; and Usha Vancelike variants of Mariolatric shrines can be seen in churches in those states. We’ll keep an eye on developments.

We’ve followed the hilarious university system in that state for years, but consider the legal system.

MAN ON SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR MURDER CHARGED WITH GUN-RELATED [OFFENSES] FOLLOWING NIGHTCLUB FIGHT

Yes the lad seems to have killed a couple of people, but the judge deemed this a minor sort of charge and released him with an ankle bracelet.

“ [A local attorney described] the state’s ankle monitor system as outdated and said it doesn’t have live tracking like the federal system.”

Judges that let accused killers go free; technology that doesn’t track them.

phone case.