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MS-13 now has a baseball team?

 

Sure. The former judge who is vetting what stays confidential and what can be cleared to be released to the prosecution obviously didn't read a million case files in a few days.

 

I don't care. I'm up to 19 over on the Ringer thread!

 

Well, this is a hell of a depressing read.

Investigators say school shootings have become the American equivalent of suicide bombings — not just a tactic, but an ideology. Young men, many of them depressed, alienated or mentally disturbed, are drawn to the Columbine subculture because they see it as a way to lash out at the world and to get the attention of a society that they believe bullies, ignores or misunderstands them.

The seemingly contagious violence has begun branching off Columbine, researchers say, and is now bringing in more recent attacks, many of them building off the details and media fixation with the last. School gunmen have admitted to investigators that they were now effectively competing with other attackers, in trying to come up with deadlier tactics, and in trying to kill the most people.


For ‘Columbiners,’ School Shootings Have a Deadly Allure

 

Is it selfish of him to publicly express his displeasure with not receiving something he assumed he deserved?

 

Similar to what Gladwell wrote a few years back.

 

Bill Browder, fierce critic of Putin and the person most responsible for the Magnitsky Act being passed both here and in Britain, was arrested in Spain on a Russian Interpol warrant last night. A couple of follow up tweets regarding this:









Browder is one brave man. He has blocked access by Putin to billions of dollars that he stashed overseas, as well as those of other Russian oligarchs. If something violent happened to him there would be little question as to why - and Putin not wanting adverse publicity is a thin thread to hang your life on. He has to know that he could be killed literally any day, but he carries on.

Getting the Magnitsky Act eased was the real point of the Russians meeting with Don Jr. at Trump Tower, not "Russian orphans".

 

Was that the New Yorker piece ... touching on mob/riot dynamics? I read that again the other day. Thought about linking it here, but with the autism facet of that piece's main subject, I thought ... hmmmm, maybe I'll let someone else draw that fire 'round here.

 

Is it healthy to have a president who insists on having no critics? Is it selfish to whine about this every day?

 

Another rally, another attack on a prominent black person.

 

Yes. I posted it awhile back as it was the basis of a David French column.

 

I’m not talking about Trump.