This shit’s a dime a dozen. Has been for a long time. University Diaries stopped bothering with it years ago.

But it’s timely because of the Jason Arday story. (See below.)

John McWhorter never minces words.

In what sense? Memphis is the most dangerous city in America, so after, say, any mass shooting in Memphis, it makes little sense for the police to assure us it was isolated. It took its place as part of incessant local warfare.

“Police said a fight broke out [at a graduation party] just after 11:15 p.m. in the 1700 block of Brookins Street before multiple people opened fire.”

At least a hundred people had gathered at the party, which is Memphis for “Ten heavily armed teenagers did what they rather often do when there’s a party.” That ain’t isolated. That’s a pattern.

$102 million. You read that right. How pleasing.

In the slough of Sunday in an August despond, when the gilded NYT reader (NY is by far the richest city in the world — over $3 trillion in private total wealth) pauses on the deck of her summer home to note the infinite recurrence of her personal sadness, an opinion piece about psychotherapy rises into view.

Though generous in its acknowledgement of the basic nothing/everythingness of this lucrative, universal practice (universal here means that everyone UD knows is and has long been engaged in it, with a few exceptions), and though willing to admit that psychotherapy seems to do nothing that a wise and intuitive friend or two can’t, the writer still aches after what he calls a “unified field theory” of the dealie. He insists it be empirical and organized into One Thing rather than everything everywhere all at once.

In short, the absolute mess of it, the desperation of sad Americans for it, and the inevitable overtaking of the … field? … by ever-new, ever-bogus, approaches, bothers the guy.

Excitedly, he announces yet another New Theory, and this one does the trick! It’s called predictive something, and is demonstrably, scientifically, good for what ails you!

Whew. It’s about time.

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Northwest ISD, Texas

Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and a former constitutional law professor, said that Mr. Paul had already tainted a prosecution by asserting he wanted to see Dr. Fauci in prison, while at the same time trying to force him to testify.

“I do have some sense of the ethics of a legislative investigation,” Mr. Raskin said. “It just would never occur to me to go around saying a witness should be in prison and then try to prevent them from invoking their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination over the very matter I’m claiming is criminal.”

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Ugh.

‘[I]nvestigators said they found two firearms in a 10-month-old child’s bedroom. They said one of the firearms was found in the closet while the other was found inside the child’s crib…

[B]oth firearms were modified consistent with Glock switch installation…

[More writing here.]

[Final sentence:]

[The suspect] already had an ankle monitor as a bond condition related to a homicide.’

Another suicide – attempted suicide? – at a gun range. Wotta shocker.

Babe, do you really have to ask?

Defund the police? Many supporters of Arday call for it. But who are you going to turn to when you’re trying to intimidate a free press?

“On the ninth floor of the extremely prestigious hospital that I was training in, we had people playing pianos for foreign dignitaries coming to get heart procedures, and then in the basement [there were] indigent New Yorkers.”

Abdul El-Sayed

And given Jason Arday’s multiple and manifest frauds, the university will inevitably fire him.

This will in turn force the hand of Simon and Schuster, which has stupidly insisted it’s bringing out his personal fantasy/memoir in a few days.

All over the place litigation from Arday is of course step three.

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UPDATE: Arday has resigned. Good career move.

New York’s Assistance in Dying law goes into effect today. The state is part of a national trend – more and more of the country perceives the humanity of legalizing (under strict conditions) the right to die, as well as the arrogance of trying to impose your religious beliefs on a secular country.

… on his campaign website. He’s running in the Dem. primary for Congress from Hawaii.

Kirill got mad the other day because somebody on a beach asked him to turn his music down, so he

threatened the man by implying he had a firearm and would shoot the victim’s wife.

A bystander intervened, leading to a physical altercation during which Basin allegedly armed himself with a knife and threatened multiple people before throwing it into the ocean. Police said the bystander recovered the knife and turned it over to responding officers.

Kirill’s threatened a lot of other people, in other venues, with fists and weapons. He has quite a history of violence.

Rather than run for office, UD suggests that Kirill, who grew up in Ukraine, take his pugilistic skills to that war-torn country. If he must explode in rage on a regular basis, make it meaningful and ding a Russian.