A Product of the Crazy-Making Factory

Posted on | December 19, 2024 | 1 Comment

Notice the slogan on Natalie Rupnow’s T-shirt: “KMFDM,” a reference to Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid (“no pity for the majority”), a German rock band whose fans included Columbine High School gunman Eric Harris. Lyrics to KMFDM songs were posted on Harris’s website, and fandom of KMFDM was part of Natalie Rupnow’s obsession with mass murderers — kind of a red flag, if anyone was paying attention.

In the immediate aftermath of Monday’s shooting, there was a lot of ill-informed speculation about Rupnow’s motive, with some people claiming the 15-year-old was transgender, but there is no evidence of that. According to Anna Slatz, Rupnow had been in an online “relationship” with a boy for two years, but we don’t actually know anything about this boyfriend yet. However, the Washington Post has some highly relevant reporting about Rupnow’s family background:

According to The Post’s review of court records, Rupnow’s parents first married in 2011, about two years after she was born.
Mellissa Rupnow had been previously married and divorced, and she had another daughter with a different man to whom she was never married. Court records indicate that this girl — Natalie Rupnow’s half sister — had other permanent legal guardians. The Post was not able to reach the half sister, who is now 20.
Mellissa and Jeff Rupnow divorced for the first time in 2014, agreeing to joint legal custody of their shared daughter, Natalie, but specifying that she would live primarily with her mother.
The couple remarried in 2017 and divorced for a second time in 2020, again agreeing to share custody but, the court records show, dividing Natalie’s time more evenly between them. During this period, Natalie would spend two days with her father, two with her mother, then three more with her father, before reversing the schedule the following week.
Shortly after Rupnow’s parents split up for the second time, the couple remarried once more. But by April 2021 they were petitioning for a third divorce. A judge granted it a month later but noted that “parties [were] admonished concerning remarriage,” according to court records.
After seeking mediation to determine custody of Natalie, they agreed in July 2022 that they would share legal custody but that the girl would now live mostly with her father. By this time, Natalie Rupnow had been enrolled in therapy, which was supposed to help guide decisions about which parent she would spend weekends with, the records show.

The Post used the word “turbulent” to describe this situation, although chaotic might be more accurate. What kind of people would get married and divorced three times? Selfish, immature, thoughtless people — well, that’s inference, but if you know anything at all about child-rearing, you understand how important stability is to the development of the child’s sense of security. Children do best when they grow up in one home, with two parents. Being shuffled around from one parent to the other is damaging, and while Natalie Rupnow is an extreme example, it is not surprising to learn that he childhood was chaotic.

Most importantly, there is no politics here. People trying to turn Natalie Rupnow into a symbol of the Left or the Right, in order to score political points for their side, are misguided. This is not a crime with a clear political motive; this crime is a product of mental illness.

Or evil, if you’d prefer to call it that.

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In The Mailbox: 12.18.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 19, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.18.24 (Evening Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Inside Story: Caddyshack, The Thin Man – Christmas Morning, George Stephanopoulos butthurt over settlement with Trump, and Investigations Regarding Liz Cheney Witness Tampering?
Twitchy: Rep. Nancy Mace Calls Out Some of the Orwellian Language In The CRomnibus, Congressman Slammed For Trying To Shield Mike Johnson , and Elected Democrat Millionaire Angry “Two Unelected Billionaires” Blocked His [40%!] Pay Raise
Louder With Crowder: CNN’s Scott Jennings thinks Donald Trump suing media organizations is awesome, Vivek Ramaswamy fires the first DOGE shot against Congress’s newest spending bill, and Flat Earther Who Tried To Prove Earth Is Flat Accidentally Finds Out… It’s Not
Vox Popoli: The 51st State, The Gatekeepers Coagulate, Migration = Homelessness, and “A Legitimate Act”
Toni Airaksinen: After October 7, Muslims Get Special Graduation At UMich, But Jews Don’t

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The great Biden pardon free for all
American Conservative: American Singapore – A MAGA Agenda for Puerto Rico
American Greatness: Occasional Cortex Loses Battle for Top Democrat Slot on Oversight Committee, DOGE’s Musk and Ramaswamy Come Out Strong Against Omnibus: ‘THIS CRIMINAL BILL SHOULD NOT PASS’, Almost 8 Million Illegal Aliens Reportedly Live in American ‘Sanctuary Cities’, Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk Recommends Investigation Into Liz Cheney For ‘Potential Criminal Witness Tampering’, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren Calls for Stronger Ethics Rules to Bind Musk, Prevent Conflict-of-Interest
American Thinker: Trump Triumphant
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Biden Decline News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Bolivian prosecutors seek arrest of former President Morales in sexual abuse case, Cuban dictatorship loses control of cash flow from diaspora, suffers 95% reduction in direct profits from remittances, Once a Christmas Eve tradition for everyone in Cuba, roast pig has now become a luxury, and U.S. Treasury Dept. fines Minnesota company for ignoring sanctions against Cuba and Iran
BattleSwarm: The Battle Of The Bulge: 80th Anniversary, also, Russia Showing Visible Cracks
Behind The Black: Second launch attempt by Japanese rocket startup fails about 90 seconds after liftoff, New manned Dragon capsule forces NASA to shuffle ISS crew launch and return schedules, Curiosity looks down and across Gale Crater, Astronomers discover 1st binary star system orbiting Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, and SpaceX launches reconnaissance satellite
Cafe Hayek: Trumpian Trade Policy Is At War With Itself, also, Why Can’t Protectionists Get Straight Even the Most Straightforward of Facts?
CDR Salamander: I&W Of The Next Trump Administration’s Approach To Russia & Ukraine
Chicago Boyz: The FBI, Politics, and the Administrative State, also, Reaching for the Alien Shore
Da Tech Guy: Of COURSE the Obama People Were All Grifters! He’s a Chicago Pol!
Dana Loesch: Wokery & “Yellowstone”,
Don Surber: A great capitulation
First Street Journal: Democrisy: the left who concealed everything about Joe Biden’s condition, are terribly worried over Donald Trump’s bruised hand, also, Why didn’t the press play its “adversarial role” when it came to Joe Biden?
Gates Of Vienna: Knife Check at the Ludwigshafen Christmas Market, Making the Gutmenschen of Ludwigshafen Feel Safe, It’s Time to Establish Qur’anic Rule in Bangladesh, and A Sharia-Compliant Christmas
The Geller Report: Wisconsin Police Chief Says It’s ‘Not Important’ If School Shooter Was Trans
Hollywood In Toto: The Seven Worst Movies of 2024, also, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Gets Double Dose of Jim Carrey
The Lid: California Democrats Dumping Call for Constitutional Convention as Americans Move Right
Legal Insurrection: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has Fun on Broadway While Conservative Justices Can’t Leave Their Homes, California Gov. Gavin Newsom Declares State of Emergency over Bird Flu, Federal Govt Trying to Hire up to 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump’s Inauguration, Dept. of Energy’s Inspector General Wants Biden Admin to Halt its Green Energy Giveaway, and Liz Cheney May Need That Preemptive Pardon After House Committee Issues Criminal Referral
Michele Catalano: farewell, but see you later
Nebraska Energy Observer: Occasionally, also, Fairy Tales for adults
Outkick: Donald Trump Is Releasing A Mobile Golf Game That Includes Some Electric Commentary From The Man Himself, Alabama Is Sounding Desperate When It Comes To NIL Funding, AD Pushes For Fans To ‘Fight Back’, Ohio State Fans Should Embrace Tennessee’s CFP ‘Invasion’ This Weekend In Columbus For Love Of The Game, Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia Granted Temporary Injunction After Suing NCAA, Gets Additional Year Of Eligibility, and The Doug Gottlieb Experiment At UW-Green Bay Has Already Hit Rock Bottom
Power Line: Our Depraved Young People, Lawless Democrats, Clueless Republicans (Updated), and The Democrats Haven’t Learned
Shark Tank: FL Wants To Charge Trump’s Would-Be Assassin With Death Of Little Girl
Shot In The Dark: The Satanic Choruses, Berg’s 20th Law – Smollett Vibes, and For The Young Ignorant Lefty Bobbleheads In Your Life
STUMP: Pensions Roundup
The Political Hat: 12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day 5), also, 12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day 6)
This Ain’t Hell: They just approach things differently, Another vet chokeholds a dude to death, Ukraine Counts Chem-Bio Coup, World’s most loved Naval Aviator gets medal, and Court stuff
Transterrestrial Musings: Team Players And Groupthink, Orion Anniversary, The Years Of Madness, and An Amusing Star Wars Thread
Victory Girls: Sad Gnome! George Stephanopoulos Humiliated Over ABC’S $16 Million Trump Settlement
Watts Up With That: U.S. Water Woes – Northeast, 6.3 Million Properties At Risk Of Flooding–Say Env Agency, New Mexico Should Dump Its ‘Clean Energy’ Policies, and Internal Watchdog Urges Biden’s Green Loans Office To Stop Working On New Loans Amid Conflict Of Interest Concerns
The Federalist: House Republicans Refer Liz Cheney For Federal Criminal Investigation, Trump Says He Is ‘Totally Against’ Bloated Omnibus Spending Bill, Trump Is Traveling Through Space And Time To Be President, ‘The American People Didn’t Vote For This’, and Pennsylvania Case Shows Why Courts Shouldn’t Dismiss Controversies When The Election Ends
Mark Steyn: What Makes the News, and What Doesn’t, Not Waving But Droning, and Live Around the Planet – And On Earth Peaceful Transfer

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In The Mailbox: 12.18.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 18, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.18.24 (Afternoon Edition)

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I remember in the 1990s there were stories about B-52 pilots whose fathers had been assigned to B-52 crews. That was fifty years ago…I wonder if we’re seeing 4th generation BUFF crews yet?
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Day of the Jackal, also, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre Poised To Be Prime Minister of Canada
Twitchy: Gen Z Democrat Blames Elon Musk For CR’s Demise, David Frum Explains He’s “Spent Most Of The Last Year In Misery”, and Continuing Resolution Contained A Little Gift To The J6 Committee
Louder With Crowder: Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Broadway Debut In Woke Remake Of Romeo & Juliet, Trump Announces New Lawsuit Against Iowa Pollster, “It was fraud and it was election interference”, INSANE: San Francisco just appointed a (check notes) obese “Weight stigma and neutrality” consultant, Kamala Harris’s latest word salad SHOCKS even her: “Yeah, I did that”, and JK Rowling drops an AMAZING A-Team reference mocking wokescolds who believe “women have d*cks”
Vox Popoli: GamerGate’s Pyrrhic Victory, Locusts Confirmed, Three Deep Against Cancer, Clown World Hates Truthtellers, and “An Unprecedented Hit”
Toni Airaksinen: Special Graduation For Muslim Students After 10/7 Attack Features Palestinian Protesters (EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Nailing Your Theses To The Pentagon Metro’s Door
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – ABC Settles,, also, The Gundies & Thanks
Don Surber: How woke died

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In The Mailbox: 12.16.24

Posted on | December 17, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.16.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Born Lucky: OnlyFans & 21st Century Euphemisms
357 Magnum: The Black Swallow Of Death – The War Hero from Georgia You’ve Never Heard Of
EBL: Abundant Life Middle School Shooting: 4 dead, 5 injured, How Lea & Perrins Makes Worcestershire Sauce, Nathan Wade admits coordination with Biden White House against Trump, RED ONE, and Biden Hypocrisy Over Guns
Twitchy: James Woods Shreds Adam Schiff’s Meet The Press Spin, Chuck Todd – Holding Journalists Accountable For Lies Sets A Dangerous Precedent, and Return Of Republican President & Press Conferences Stirs CNN’s Daniel Dale From Four-Year Slumber
Louder With Crowder: Neil deGrasse Tyson rants that if you don’t blindly trust the experts, you may literally die, also, Anti-Trump liberal writer makes insane claim mall Santas are creepier than men using the girls’ bathroom
Vox Popoli: Regional Power != Global Invincibility, Childhood Vaccine Review, When a Pet Thinks He’s a Player, The True Anti-Tolkien, and Burying the Fraud
Cedar Sanderson: Mirrors or Windows?
Stoic Observations: Thirty Years, also, Have You Ever?
Toni Airaksinen: Fired UMich Administrator Paid $185,000 Before “Wealthy Jews” Comments, also, Columbia Prof Resigns In Protest Against Anti-Semitic Professor Assigned Class On Israeli Society
Flappr: Big TD’s Football Blog – Week 15
Ammo.com: How Many American Households Have A Gun In 2024?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Shootout in DOGE City
American Greatness: An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Drone Sightings & Reports of Crashes, Continue to Alarm and Befuddle New Jersey Residents, Yes, It Was a Landslide, Trump Considers Overhauling the USPS, and Are the Years of Madness Ending?
American Thinker: Trump is Flushing the Expert Class Down the Toilet, Pete Hegseth a Home Run for SecDef, Hawaii Judges Say ‘to Hell with the Constitution’, 20 (or So) Obvious Questions about January 6, and The Great Drone Scam
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Bread rolls distributed through the ration book in Cuba getting smaller and smaller, Cuba plunged into a spiral of misery with no end in sight, In Cuba, the Communist Party is forever, U.S. Congress considers tightening embargo and sanctions against Cuba, and Cubans now stealing tons of rice for black market resale, some getting caught
BattleSwarm: The Case Of The Missing 15,000,000, Library Addition: Signed Easton Press Edition of Trent Lott’s Herding Cats, and Biden Pardons The Worst People In The World
Behind The Black: Boeing to take more than a decade to refit two 747s for Air Force One, China launches first set of satellites for planned internet megaconstellations, Ispace awarded $5.83 million loan from Japanese government, The Insight lander on Mars as seen from orbit over six years, and FAA eliminates a stupid licensing requirement imposed when it “streamlined” its launch licensing regulations
Cafe Hayek: Yet Another Example Of The Myopia of the Market, also, Tariffs Reduce Not Only A Country’s Consumption, but Also It’s Production
CDR Salamander: The Icebreaker Imperative, also, What Broke Shipbuilding Predictions In 2014?
Chicago Boyz: Economic Development: From the Roof, or From the Foundations?
Da Tech Guy: 5 Fun Sports Thoughts Under the Fedora, In Cook County, Illinois, the most consequential election in 2016 was not the presidential race, and Five Nasty Surprises Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: Wisconsin School Shooting, also, Biden Calls For Gun Control In Wake Of Wisconsin Shooting
Don Surber: FAFO War Update, also, Revoke the media’s license to lie
First Street Journal: President Trump needs to roll back the ATF’s regulations over the last four years, also, Is Bill Kristol running our foreign policy?
Gates Of Vienna: Nalanda And Oxford, Two-Tier Annalena, The Best Muslims Ever, The Eternal German Masochist, and Rocío de Meer: “Is it hatred to prefer that in Spain there are still Spanish people?”
The Geller Report: Mail-In Ballot Fraud Study Finds Trump ‘Almost Certainly’ Won In 2020, also, Did Israel Miss a Golden Opportunity to Attack Iran’s Nuclear Program?
Hollywood In Toto: Justine Bateman Says Cancel Culture Is Done, Thank God, A Complete Unknown Shreds Biopic Formula, Gremlins Remains a Nasty ’80s-Era Triumph, Michael Moore Won’t Condemn UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing, and GOP Donors Ignore Movies at Their Peril
The Lid: Sen. Hawley Blasts Democrat Plan to Give Amnesty and Voting Rights to 13 Million Illegals
Legal Insurrection: Our National Science Foundation Has Given Over $2 Billion to DEI Projects, Judge Merchan Denies Trump Immunity Motion To Set Aside Jury Verdict in NYC Criminal Case, Offshore Wind is Bad News for New York and New Jersey, Veteran Journalist Dismantles Liberal Case Against Trump’s Deportation Plans: ‘It’s Easier Than You Think’, and Anti-Israel Group at Columbia U. Distributes Pamphlet With Link to Financer of Terrorism
Michele Catalano: the great long island christmas bake-off
Nebraska Energy Observer: Apropos of Not Much, also, Saturday – just for you
Outkick: Stephen A. Smith Rips Democrats After DOJ Investigation Reveals New Information About January 6 Informants, Minnesota Vikings, Justin Jefferson Show Support For Franchise Legend Randy Moss During MNF, Referees Found No Video Evidence That Darius Slay Punched Someone Even Though He Clearly Did, Wisconsin Gets Huge QB Update As Team Burns Down, Fans Might Not Be Happy, and Tony Romo Was A Drooling Mess On Sunday, Brittany Mahomes Undresses For A Pregnancy Shoot & Woke Yellowstone?
Power Line: Times Change, Goodbye, Paul: We Knew You Too Goddamn Well, and How Much Voter Fraud In 2020?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Mental sorbet,
Shark Tank: Trump Trusts DeSantis To Make The “Right Decision” On Senate Seat
Shot In The Dark: The Real Victim Here
STUMP: Revisiting Fraud & Embezzlement – Rita Crundwell & The Biden Commutation, The Week In Meep,
The Political Hat: 12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day 2), Happy Bill of Rights Day, 12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day 3), and 12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day 4)
This Ain’t Hell: How to play dumb and become a hero, also, Sad update
Transterrestrial Musings: Voter Fraud In 2020, Irish Anti-Semitism, Christopher Wray, Well, Now We Know, and What Are They, and Whose?
Victory Girls: Biden And Harris Thank DNC Donors For The Money They Wasted
Watts Up With That: IPCC U-Turn as it Prepares to Start Blaming Humans for Bad Weather, Permitting Reform: A Strategic Imperative for U.S. National Security and Global Competitiveness, and NOAA’s Future and Project 2025
The Federalist: Trump-Hating ABC Settles Defamation Case With $15 Million Payment To Trump Library, While KBJ Enjoys Broadway, Her Constitution-Loving Supreme Court Colleagues Can Barely Leave Their Homes, The NFL’s Streaming Scheme Makes Watching Football Insufferable And Nearly Impossible, If Sen. Thom Tillis Sabotages Trump’s Cabinet Picks, Voters Should Fire Him, and 12 Disqualifying Errors In Richard Hays’ ‘Biblical’ Case For Gay Relationships
Mark Steyn: The Absence of Men, This Drover Crossed Over, O Tannenbaum, and Boys to Men: John Sturges and Last Train from Gun Hill

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Ruke 5 Sunday: Little Mischief Baker

Posted on | December 16, 2024 | 1 Comment

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Looks like she’s got something in mind to do while the cake is baking. Or someone.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Hydrogen Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”, Nosferatu, The Ronettes, Jean Lafitte, Nancy Mace Attacked By Troon, MAGA – Trump’s Naughty & Nice Lists, Patti Page, Lara Trump Stepping Down At RNC, Why Does Dune Prophecy Suck? and Wolfs

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Riana Bailey, Fish Pic Friday – AI Fish, Farmers to Get More Say in the Next Bay Diet?, Tattoo Thursday, Hump Day Potpourri, The Wednesday Wetness, Is Hegseth Gaining Ground? Wray Planning Resignation, Tuesday Tanlines, Trump Promises J6 Pardons, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday, and ‘Pubs Pounce on Papa Joe’s Pardon

FLAPPR: Serious Matters & Unfolding Trends For December 13

BACON TIME: Rule Five – The Weather Outside Is Frightful

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FMJRA 2.0: The Draft Plays On

Posted on | December 15, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Draft Plays On

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The draft for the 1973 season continues at Pete’s league, and as the informal draft puttered on through the week, I got some more good players.
7. OF Cito Gaston
8. OF Tommie Agee
9. P Blue Moon Odom
10. 1B Frank Howard
11. 2B Glenn Beckert
12. RP Dave Sells
Got some pretty good hitters and a solid pitching staff. I think we might could make the playoffs this year.
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The Heroism of Amy Wax

Posted on | December 14, 2024 | 2 Comments

“A man who is not willing to be slandered by the Left is of no use to the Right. It goes without saying, and can be demonstrated from history, that every successful proponent of the conservative cause becomes a target of the Left’s character assassins.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, “First They Came for Mel Bradford”

Meetings of the Mencken Club are so secretive that attendees usually never mention their attendance, lest it make them targets of “cancelation.” You can’t post about this gathering of Thought Criminals on Facebook, because if the the Left finds out where the meeting is being hosted, there will certainly be protests and quite probably vandalism, and good luck booking a hotel ballroom in such a situation.

So I can’t tell you where I had the pleasure of meeting University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Amy Wax over a cup of coffee. She is a petite dynamo of a woman, full of energy, and photos don’t do her justice. Beyond that, I invoke my Miranda “right to remain silent.”

Professor Wax has no intention of remaining silent:

Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who was disciplined by the University of Pennsylvania for making controversial remarks about race and gender, told Penn on Thursday that she will sue the university for race discrimination if it does not drop the sanctions against her, according to a letter from Wax’s lawyers obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It’s the latest salvo in a nearly three-year-long battle between Wax and the Ivy League school, which announced in September that it was suspending her at half-pay for one year.
Penn has until December 19 to “conclusively disavow” those penalties. “Should you fail to do so,” the letter states, “Professor Wax will file suit against the University.”
Because Penn promises its professors academic freedom, the letter argues that the school breached its contract with Wax by punishing her for protected speech. It notes that Penn took no action against professors who spewed anti-Semitic bile after the October 7 attacks. And it uses Penn’s double standard to make a creative legal argument: By punishing speech that offended racial minorities — but not speech that offended Jews — the university engaged in unlawful race discrimination when it singled Wax out for punishment, the letter says.
“The University’s speech policies … transparently discriminate on the basis of race, including most notably the race of the subject of the speech at issue,” the letter reads. “As such, they violate federal law’s various prohibitions against race-based discrimination.” . . .

You can read the whole thing and see if you can find anywhere that Professor Wax said anything untrue. See, that’s the way it is in 21st-century academia — you can tell any lie, as long as it’s a politically correct lie, but there are some truths that no one is permitted to mention, and that’s why Professor Wax got punished. She has refused to budge an inch and now, thanks to Penn’s tolerance for Jew-hating pro-Hamas protesters, she’s got a solid legal case against the administration.

As for where I met her, well, I can’t tell you, because the first rule of Mencken Club is, nobody talks about Mencken Club.

(Hat tip: Instapundit.)

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