You may recall that last Spring, a chemistry professor at Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota was accused of urinating on student belongings, and was dismissed from his position. His troubles have greatly increased: he has been formally charged with a felony.

There has been a confession.

Urination had been found in trash cans, individuals’ water bottles and inside professors’ decorations, the state criminal court document said.

Investigators determined Fischer was responsible for the series of urine-related cases, and he resigned from Macalester College, where he had spent 25 years working.

Authorities confronted Fischer before charging him, the court document said. He allegedly shared that “during the last one and a half to two years he developed a habit of urinating in a cup and disposing the contents in either trash cans or lab sinks around campus”, according to the document.

Calling it a “habit” doesn’t make it better.

Hot tip for any young people hoping for a career in the sciences: having a criminal record of peeing all over your workplace is the kiss of death for your employment prospects. Dr Fischer has flushed away his 25-year teaching career with his “habit”.

In a horrible, tragic incident, a man with a history of mental illness climbed a fence at a South Yorkshire zoo and walked up to a Siberian tiger, which did what a tiger does. It swiftly killed him. His family is grieving. It’s all over the news — this was such a rare and unusual event.

Our mentally ill president, who watches television constantly, saw the video, and rather than doing something anywhere close to presidential, or what a sober adult would do, like expressing his sympathies, chose to eruct on social media.

Donald Trump reposted a silent 41-second video apparently showing the attack on his Truth Social account on Tuesday, captioning it: “Don’t ever mess with nature! President DJT.”

A minute later, he posted a 24-second video compilation of lion attacks on people, this one accompanied by jaunty music.

So presidential. So dignified.

Can someone take him to the zoo and leave a few cage doors unlocked?

It got worse.

“President Trump posted a wild AI-generated video late Tuesday that showed him chasing, tackling and befriending a Siberian tiger, hours after he had warned his Truth Social followers: ‘Don’t ever mess with nature!’” the New York Post reports.

That’s straight from Answers in Genesis. It’s official dogma at AiG that all the dinosaurs were vegetarian. And they still rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars from the rubes.

Meanwhile, the fully articulated and intact skeleton of Cuvier is spinning in his grave.

This sounds like a fascinating, factual documentary.

Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s 4-hour documentary about Elon Musk may be the most important film of the year. After the first two hours, audiences will learn that he is better at engineering everything around him to suit his ego and his bank account than he is at engineering his many products. We see the damage he has inflicted, including horrific dash-cam footage of fatal accidents involving self-driving cars. Many who watch it will be rattled but consider it as remote if they don’t buy a Tesla or have stock in SpaceX.

The second two hours are when it gets really scary, because that is when audiences learn how he affects every one of our lives, in the United States and throughout the world. Gibney asks, “How could Musk assume so much power and why had we given it to him?”

Musk hates it. What’s really scary, though, and demonstrates the chilling effect billionaires have on our lives, is that it’s already being censored.

The documentary is facing more than a war of words from Musk, however. The film’s distributor, Bleecker Street, has not been able to run paid advertisements on several major social media platforms. As of Sept. 25, YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X had all refused. YouTube, where the trailer had been available through regular channels, and Meta have since reversed course, saying that it had been flagged for “political content.”

There are also concerns about whether “Musk” will eventually land on HBO as originally planned in the aftermath of the Skydance merger, the new entertainment giant created by Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. CEO David Ellison’s father, Larry Ellison, is friendly with Musk.

WOoooOOOOOooooo! Who needs Hallowe’en when the ghouls have taken over?

If that’s just too depressing for you, here’s a comic to cheer you up.

Oh, what a happy fantasy!

(There’s a whole series of anti-billionaire comics at that site. Expect the creator to be censored soon.)

And Ohio crowd chanted “deport” as President Donald Trump blasted Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., during a campaign rally speech on Monday night.

Trump held the rally in Youngstown, Ohio, just hours after federal agents executed a search warrant on Omar’s home in relation to a criminal investigation.

Trump took aim at Omar and the wider Somali community in Minnesota.

“She’s a disaster. She comes in from a country without laws, without police, without military. All they do is shoot each other, and she comes into our country and she says, ‘I have a constitutional right,'” Trump joked. “She’s got a constitutional right. She’s telling us about the Constitution and she’s coming from one of the worst countries anywhere on the planet.”

That’s the real reason for the raid: he just hates all people from a country in Africa. This is criminal prejudice and an abuse of federal law enforcement for a partisan purpose. Arrest Trump, not Omar.

I’m not in her district, but if I were, after this I’d be even more committed to voting for her, and I’m also more committed to seeing Trump impeached. It’s too bad congress is stacked with corrupt and stupid Republicans so that won’t happen.

He should have been gone after this blatant criminality.

I can’t believe that they found boxes of stolen classified documents in Ilhan Omar’s bathroom?
Oh wait, that was Trump’s public bathrooms in Mar-a-lago.
Just in case you were wondering what the difference between fascism and investigating actual crimes looks like.

That comes from a Muslim channel that has other stupid AI-generated videos, like this. All they tell me is that you have to be seriously deluded to accept any of the claims of religion.

I was trying to think of romantic dates to go on with my wife, and I came up with a brilliant idea: I should take her out to Shakey’s Pizza. That was our standard destination back in the 1970s, go out to Shakey’s, sit in a booth with a pineapple pizza and a diet coke, and talk for hours. Yeah, that’s the ticket, an evening of nostalgia and sentiment and good memories.

One problem, though. When we weren’t looking, the entire chain shriveled up and died. There’s a cluster of them still alive in Southern California, and apparently they’re thriving in the Philippines, but none in Minnesota, and only one left in Washington state, in Pasco. Near as I can tell even the old location in Kent, WA has been replaced with a Chuck E. Cheese. I guess I’ll just sit at home, looking dour. See, this is why old people have a reputation for crankiness.

What do the teenagers do nowadays on a Saturday night? What did you do, once upon a time?

Tom Gauld

David Gerard makes a similar point.

LLMs and AI would be great tools if they weren’t being wielded by some of the worst corporate/capitalist vermin on Earth.

Last night, I did another shift as theater projectionist, and sat through the movie Verity a second time. We had another evening of light duty, as only 4 people showed up, and two of them had free passes, so I sat through the whole thing.

It was so much worse than I thought. This was an incompetent piece of film making.

I was criticized in my original review for saying that Dakota Johnson can’t act, and that she spent “the entire movie looking vaguely stunned,” but that was a plot point that was mentioned multiple times! The opening (and entirely superfluous and irrelevant to the plot) scene was Johnson getting splashed with blood from an auto accident in front of her, to which she responded with complete equanimity. She later tells Josh Hartnett that she’s been told she has “resting bored face”. She responds to every horrific thing in the movie with utter passivity.

But the worst is the plot, and I’ll have to give away spoilers here, so it’s below the fold.

In the movie, Dakota Johnson is hired to ghost-write for a famous author, Anne Hathaway, who has been in a terrible accident and is mostly paralyzed, unresponsive, and silent. She spends almost the entire movie in a wheelchair, still and static (I’m sure Dakota Johnson would have been better in this role.) She left behind a secret autobiography in which she confesses to have killed one of her children, and Johnson suspects she has been faking the paralysis.

She puts a child monitor in Hathaway’s room to get evidence that she’s pretending…but she doesn’t get any. Hathaway is immobile and unmoving the whole time, even when Johnson punctures her hand with a pin. But Johnson shows Josh Hartnett the monitor, where she’s doing nothing, and accuses her of being a big bad murderous fake, and he flies into a rage and runs into Hathaway’s room screaming.

So what does she do? She instantly gives up the game, and starts pleading, so Hartnett starts strangling her. Johnson tells him to stop, that the police will know she was murdered, and suggests he cover her mouth and nose instead and suffocate her. Because the police can’t detect that. So he murders her.

Then they carry the dead, formerly paralyzed woman down to a lake and throw her body in, so the police will think she went for a walk and fell in. Very convincing.

There’s a second twist where it’s revealed that Hathaway’s autobiography was actually practice for a novel about a villain, and Hartnett was actually the one responsible for the death of his child, but Johnson marries him anyway. He’s rich.

This movie should win a prize for dumbest plot of the year, and deadest, dullest acting of the decade. No wonder no one has been showing up at the theater for this stinker.

Commissioned by Puncky ’73 and Mary Soehren Heppner ’76, this statue, an older woman with two young children at her sides, was created by Duane “Dewey” Goodwin, Anishinaabe, on the campus mall site during the summer of 2018. The Heppner’s intention for the statue is to honor the past, present, and future of the Native American people whose ancestors attended the boarding school that once stood on the land of the University of Minnesota Morris campus. In an artist statement, Goodin writes, “The sculpture symbolizes the [journey] of the Native American, from a traditional people to an assimilated, but still proud, people. We have endured colonization, retaining our most valued traditions—our identity, language, ceremonies, and arts.”

I mention it since today is Indigenous People’s Day. We aren’t getting the day off, though, so we’ll all have to celebrate it privately.

The Guardian asks, “Fraternities are the most likely place for US campus rapes. Should they be shut down?“

What a stupid question. YES.

It’s a lengthy article that goes through all the problems with the fraternity system — the alcoholism, the hazing deaths (two annually!), the rapes. I kept reading for the positive reasons, and they give a few. One is the threats.

“All the Greek alumni would have pitchforks, and it would be a whole debacle rather than kind of letting this play out in the press and then just going back to business,” said Lucy Taylor, a University of Maryland graduate and the creator of the podcast Snapped about the sordid history of fraternities and sororities.

Another is a variant of that threat.

“When you get rid of Greek life, you get rid of some of the most passionate people that cared about the school, right? And so why would someone like that donate to the school if the school is eliminating something that was a key part of their time at Cornell?” he said.

This is similar to the argument in favor of college sports, and ultimately it’s all about money. Fraternities and sports are orthogonal to the function of universities and education, and they should only be tolerated as long as they don’t interfere with the education students are supposed to be there for.

No good reasons for frats are given other than platitudes from North American Interfraternity Conference, a trade association of fraternities.

Hillary Brewer, the organization’s chief communications officer, did not respond to a question about whether sexual misconduct is pervasive at fraternities but stated in an email that they “are an accelerator for success in college and beyond. They create lifelong connections to the campus, community and friends.”

You don’t need frats to make connections and friends, especially not since the connections are with the kind of people who favor elitism, abuse, and misbehavior.

Shut them all down.

I’ve got a few more to mount around the house. Will do that in the next week.

Last night was the dull horror of Verity, a movie based on a potboiler by Colleen Hoover. It’s had a low level of attendance for the past week, but it does tap into an unusual audience: women’s book clubs. It’s fair that that audience should be served, and Hoover is apparently an extremely successful author, but it’s unfortunate that they are so poorly represented. The movie has a dark and twisty plot that bored me far too quickly, but it’s greatest flaw that its star is…Dakota Johnson. The woman cannot act. She spends the entire movie looking vaguely stunned, just as she does in every movie I’ve ever seen featuring her. Anne Hathaway is also in it, but she spends the first half imitating Johnson by playing a brain-damaged paralyzed accident victim.

We had two ticket-paying attendees last night.

The other movie playing last night was Heart of the Beast. It’s a dog movie. It also features Brad Pitt and an unbelievable plot. Brad is flying a private plane over the Alaskan wilderness with his loyal and brave military dog, when he has a massive heart attack and crashes his plane into a lake, 60 miles from civilization.

He has to dive deep into the frigid lake to salvage his camping supplies. He and the dog then have to hike through rugged terrain, fighting of the occasional grizzly bear and wolf pack, falling into a whitewater stream, breaking his arm, getting gnawed on by wolves, and, like Dakota Johnson, never changing his expression. Did I mention that the inciting incident was a massive heart attack? Rather than going into intensive care, he instead must stoically battle against a savage wilderness with his dog pal. It was a long slog for both Brad Pitt and the audience.

Attendance: 0.

I blame the movie studios. These are dull, formulaic movies that are also poorly marketed. I knew nothing about either before pushing the button to put them on the screen: Verity was dependent on the popularity of a book in a niche market, and Heart of the Beast was a movie about a dog, and that’s all you need to know (not that there was much deeper in it than that).

I think the one bright spot this time of year is the free Saturday matinees, when we show old, familiar spooky movies and make all our profit on popcorn and candy sales — and we also get an audience of appreciative families. Digging up old hits is a more productive use of the theater than showing the poor fare the studios are dumping on us.

And look! Today you can get firetruck rides!

The Washington Post announces that the Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’.

Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than they were a few years ago, according to a new analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

The decline is particularly striking among ninth-grade girls, according to Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University who published her analysis of the 2025 data on her Substack “Generation Tech.” In 2021, 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual. Last year, 17 percent did.

“It really does look like a free fall,” Twenge said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”

OK. I don’t have a prior commitment to how many ninth-grade girls would be lesbian or bisexual; I would hope that 100% of them are happy being whoever they want to be. It’s weird, though, that conservatives are pumping their fists at the news.

Online, conservative activists celebrated the news as a win brought on by the Donald Trump administration.

Amazing what happens when you cut the Department of Education and USAID, Terry Schilling, the head of the American Principles Project, wrote on X.

Wow, Terry, are you happy that more 15 year old girls are declaring themselves heterosexual? That’s kind of creepy. Also are you really cheering on cuts to education and USAID?

My first reaction was doubt: it’s in the Washington Post, Jeff Bezo’s bought and paid for propaganda outlet. I begin with some mistrust of that newspaper.

My second reaction was, the CDC? Really? The institution that has been savagely cut and politicized? I think the Republican hacks who have taken over would only allow information that favors conservative biases to be released. Last year the former head of vaccines there resigned over funding cuts and criticisms of the science by political apparatchiks. It’s not a happy place right now.

But at least the WaPo includes some more sober assessment.

Jody Herman, senior scholar at the Williams Institute, a research center at UCLA on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy, questioned whether the data revealed a meaningful shift in behavior.

“The study doesn’t provide confidence intervals to determine whether the differences are actually significant,” she wrote in an email to The Washington Post. “The narrative around a decline in LGBT identity among youth has been around for a while now. We’ll continue to look at trends over time in our work, but the evidence provided so far for a decline leaves more questions than answers.”

But let’s assume the observation is accurate, that fewer ninth-grade girls identify as lesbian. The real question is why.

Are teenagers actually becoming straight again? That makes no sense. These are individuals who are in the process of discovering their sexuality; it’s not as if ten year olds were biased towards gayness and then ‘straightened up’ when they were 15. This is a shift in the proportion of a cohort. It’s more that a cohort that has always been shifting and changing are showing a gradual firming up of their commitment to heterosexuality, which has always been the case. I personally went from a general indifference to sex in early adolescence to a solid preference by the time I was in high school. This observation of percentages is not significant.

A better explanation is that we’re currently living in a state of intolerance and bigotry.

“They probably are just keeping it to themselves bc Republicans are fucking crazy,” was one theory posted to X.

“The chances are more likely that, rather than ‘becoming straight,’ people don’t feel as safe identifying themselves again,” came another.

I favor the “Republicans are fucking crazy” theory myself. This is not a good time to honestly express yourself, because the fucking crazy Republicans are running roughshod over schools, education, and science. Be safe. Keep your feelings close to your chest until you get a chance to shut these fools down. But don’t be afraid to be who you are in private.

The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn’t want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Somali immigrants are a tiny minority here, the ones I’ve met have all been good citizens, and no, I can look out the window and read the local newspapers and see a generally small amount of Violence, Murder, and Mayhem. As for our governor, that’s just projection — we all know which executive is raking in billions from corruption, and who has handed out billions to his own children. I think the only person viewing Minnesotans as “weak and stupid” is the guy whose brownshirts were run out of town by our resistance.

Do MAGAs actually believe what’s coming out of Trump’s colon? I’m sure some of them do, but a lot are beginning to resist. Did you know that Ben Shapiro’s hack propaganda company, the Daily Wire, is trying to make a tasteless pro-ICE movie in Montana?

The film blends a fictionalized depiction of the Renee Good shooting in Minneapolis in January with a narrative centered on armed shopkeepers defending a store from Antifa rioters, including dialogue in the script referencing “rooftop Koreans” firing from a grocery store roof.

The cinematic tension on set was quickly mirrored by real-world friction in downtown Livingston, where residents began staging demonstrations against the production over its controversial themes, unannounced gun-toting stunts and street closures disrupting local businesses and organizations.

There is no way they could make such a movie in Minnesota, so they’re filming in Montana…and Montanans are having none of it. I am aware that Montana citizens have a strong independent streak, but they also tend to be conservative, and they’re protesting ICE propaganda.

I will be interested to see how the Daily Wire can turn a scene involving black-clad masked men with guns against unarmed citizens into a heroic representation of ICE. Probably by lying a lot, like any Republican.

In six months, I’ll be retired.

I might drop dead a few days after that, but I’m going to get at least one day of no stress, no worries about classes in the next semester, and a half-century worth of anxieties will fade away. Probably to be replaced by a new flavor of anxieties.

There is a lot of stuff in the Epstein files that has been redacted out of the public eye, I guess. We’d been suspicious of Leon Botstein, the long-running (but now former) president of Bard College, and Jamie Raskin kept digging and unearthed some incriminating rot.

Documents in the Department of Justice’s Epstein files show that in May 2014, Epstein sent an aspiring young vocalist he’d been trafficking, called Jane Doe, to meet with Botstein, “ostensibly for him to assess her musical talents and provide her with educational guidance,” Raskin wrote. In a May 15, 2014, email to Epstein, Botstein asked, “Is [Jane Doe] for me, or are you keeping her for yourself.” The Department of Justice redacted Botstein’s official presidential email address in the publicly available file, but members of Congress were allowed to view the unredacted file at the DOJ, according to Raskin’s office.

That’s a dense paragraph. We learn that:

• Members of congress have access to the unredacted Epstein files. Wouldn’t this be better managed by journalists?
• Botstein was actively involved in sex trafficking.
• Botstein regarded students as potentially “for him”. The attitude is horrifying.
• In 2014, Epstein was a convicted sex offender, and Botstein should not have had the power to recruit students, so what was the nature of the “guidance” he was offering?

I’m wondering what aspirations a young vocalist might have had that were met by being sent by a rich sex trafficker to meet with a bald old man in a bow tie. We’ve also learned what advice she was getting.

But instead of helping her pursue her career, the lawmakers said in their letter, Epstein pressured her to take sex education and massage courses, and “employed” her while he was sexually abusing her.

This was an effective revelation.

The latest development appears to have triggered the immediate resignation of Botstein from all Bard-affiliated positions, including his professorship and roles in Bard’s music programs. Botstein had led the college for 50 years and only recently stepped down as president.

Fifty years too late. Botstein had made at least one trip to Epstein’s island and multiple trips to his New York townhouse, and we all know there’s only one reason to visit those places.

Seattle’s annual spider season has arrived, driven primarily by mature male giant house spiders actively searching for mates indoors during August and September.

We never noticed anything in particular about spiders in the fall when we lived there. I suspect it’s nothing but a media-fed frenzy that has little connection to reality.

It’s also not a Seattle thing. We get a surge in spider visibility in the fall, too, and it’s simply because some common spider species that live near humans are in frantic mating mode as the warm weather starts to go away. Relax.

I will say, though, that one spider-fact that’s special about Seattle is the swarms of cross spiders, these spectacular orb-weavers, that are everywhere. I remember them from when I was a kid. Or rather, maybe what’s special is that where I live now is totally lacking in Araneus diadematus. We’re in a weird hole in its range.

Sam Alito really hates gay and trans people, and logic. He has some twisted arguments.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the devout Catholic conservative who has long warned of animus against religion in America, says in a new book that he believes the court’s landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was perhaps the decisive point in our nation’s turn against religious liberty.

I don’t think “religious liberty” means what I think it means. For instance, I think we should allow Catholics to be Supreme Court justices, despite not being Catholic myself, and having the opinion that Catholicism has long defended odious practices. You see, I actually think that denying rights to citizens because I disagree with them is a bad thing, although I confess, Sam Alito is making me rethink that commitment to principle.

But do go on, Sam. Explain how other people’s secular principles does harm to your beliefs about religion.

In dissent from that ruling, he said in the 2018 address, I expressed my worry that equating the expression of certain views with bigotry — or, if you like, with dignitary harm — would drive believers out of public life.

But certain views are bigotry — not all views, obviously, but when someone expresses a harmful bias, we should be able to recognize that it is bigotry. Holding bigoted opinions should be called out and condemned. Driving people who hold racist, or sexist, or homophobic views that do harm to a large cohort of citizens should lead to their ostracization.

Doesn’t the fact that a hoary old regressive bigot like Sam Alito can be the final arbiter of the law in this country tell you that we haven’t done enough to drive those kinds of believers out of high office, let alone public life?

Man, he looks suspiciously well-tanned and groomed for someone hospitalized for a few weeks

Gabe Poirot had a serious skateboarding accident, and was in a coma for 18 days. When he recovered (which wasn’t due to the intensive medical care he received — it was thanks to a lady praying over him), he translated the experience into a book and an appearance on the ever-credulous Fox News.

What a load of horseshit.

My first reaction was to see his description of the afterlife as evidence that he was making everything up. Yeah, sure, the sand and the trees and the wind were all constantly singing the praises of Jesus, and everything was Jesus-soaked. Babble Jesus, Jesus, Jesus to appeal to the most gullible Christians.

Second reaction: boy, that wasn’t heaven, that sounds like Hell. You’re lucky you got out after 18 days…imagine an eternity in that fever dream.

Thirdly, it’s true — we created gods in our image. His Jesus is a homoerotic Republican authoritarian fantasy. It’s Jesus of Finland.

POIROT: Yeah. Now, with every single person I meet, I tell them of the love of Christ, and that He did it all for them, and He died and rose again.

And also, I love how, you know, all these other testimonies, they didn’t meet a female Jesus. They didn’t meet a soft or a passive Jesus. Jesus is a man.

And especially in America, He’s been misrepresented. And especially, even, you know, there are so many cultural things that present Him as if He is some just tolerant guy. It is not the Jesus I met. He’s a lion. But He’s not a lion angry against me. He is a lion angry for me. He is a Mustang on my behalf. He did it all for me.

MCENANY: And what did He look like when you saw Him?

POIROT: Pure fire. He was 5’11”, like 6 feet, yet as tall as eternity. Like an ocean of love. Yet His eyes were burning white and red at the same time. And, I mean, talk about testosterone, like a Mustang. I’m telling you, He’s the Lion of Judah, and there’s a roar within His voice.

Right. His Jesus is loaded with testosterone and is angry for white conservative men everywhere.

People fall for this nonsense?

Then as I was leaving the science building, I spotted a lovely bold jumper on the glass door. Of course I caught it in my right hand.

I’m hurrying home with spiders in each hand, and when I got home, there was a zebra jumper waiting on the door. I thought about pulling a Darwin and popping one of them into my mouth so I could catch the third, but I didn’t want to traumatize any of the spiders, so the zebra jumper was let off, and is having a lovely time in the garden, where all of them eventually ended up.

According to the criminal complaint, police were called to the University of Minnesota Morris’s Humanity and Fine Arts building just after 4 p.m. on a report of a stabbing.

A witness led the officer to a room where the victim, identified as a percussion instructor at the school, was bleeding and suffering from an injury to the arm. The witness told police that the victim had come to his office with “blood everywhere” and identified Cusey as the suspect.

A student, Alexander William Cusey, had attacked one of our instructors for reasons that are unclear.

In the hospital, Cusey told the doctor that he was “trying to kill my percussion instructor” and that he “stabbed my pinky a little bit,” according to the complaint.

He also told an officer that the instructor was a “goodie two shoes” and described the stabbing as “thrilling” and “hilarious.”

Cusey allegedly added that he had had previous violent fantasies involving his parents and his high school.

I don’t recognize the student, but then he was working on the opposite side of campus. I don’t think he’s at all representative of our student body, and clearly has some issues.

At least I can say our administration responded decisively — Mr Cusey was immediately arrested, is currently in jail awaiting trial, and won’t be returning to campus.

MEGYN KELLY (HOST): No one will even consider the possibility that this woman made a decision to get it on with four men total, not seven, and enjoyed it because — I’m just going to be honest, she’s not the most attractive gal. She’s extremely beefy in her arms and her legs. She has a whole video online talking about her cankles. And she possibly enjoyed being admired. This is how women make these mistakes. Admired, wanted, some women even foolishly say loved by these guys at Cornell. But this is probably a first for her. She’s probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn’t grow up the incredibly beautiful one.

I’m not trying to be insulting. I’m just trying to tell you the narrative that is likely to have occurred here, in my opinion. And why can’t we account for that possibility? That the girl who was never the most sought after suddenly had four guys who wanted to have sex with her. And she counted this, yeah, in her inebriated state, as a win and liked the feeling of being sexy and desired and wanted. It happens. Sorry, it does. And that’s why she kept saying yes.

Why do we have to go right to she’s a victim? Even she took weeks to get there. It wasn’t until they told her she couldn’t go to the party. We all know that. Right? This is so disempowering to all of womankind, to all of us, to our daughters. We are capable of making decisions. She made the decision to drink and then show up at a fraternity house at 11 o’clock.

Interesting. Megyn Kelly was repeatedly sexually harassed by the odious Roger Ailes and kept quiet about it for 10 years. From this we can infer that she was thrilled to be groped by this specimen.

Bakker was convicted after a ‌six-week trial in federal court on all 24 fraud and conspiracy charges brought against him. Prosecutors said he defrauded followers of $158m by selling promises of lifetime annual vacations that he could not provide. They said he siphoned $3.7m to bankroll a lavish lifestyle that included several homes, luxury cars, mink coats, diamonds, servants – and an air-conditioned dog house.

Religion really helps skim off $158 million. That’s its primary virtue.

His legacy? Buckets of freeze-dried, powdered apocalypse food to fuel the doomsday he experienced today.