The Chicago Tylenol Murders

A history lesson from 90 Miles From Tyranny. September 29, 1982: The Chicago Tylenol Murders Begin

A 12-year-old girl named Mary Kellerman dies in the suburbs of Chicago after taking an Extra-Strength Tylenol, becoming the first of six people in the area to soon turn up dead after taking that same medication. Investigators later found cyanide in the capsules.

No one was ever convicted of these crimes.

I have seen this reenacted on at least one procedural, cop show. Except Hollywood, in the times before MeToo and COVID, loved a happy ending, which meant the bad guy being brought to justice of some kind.

Click thru for more history.

Tuesday Links - 29 September

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is first with A Bunch Of Left Wacko Groups Launch “Day Of Action” To Keep Haitians In US

Hey, maybe if they spent their money on making Haiti a nice place (didn’t they say Haiti was a nice place?) Haitians could return home, right?

Campus Reform - Universities hire legions of H-1B workers, lawmakers advance legislation to rein in ‘visa scam’

As universities across the country continue to pursue hiring foreign labor via the H-1B program, Republican congressmen have advanced legislation seeking to crack down on the “H-1B visa scam.”

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 25 September 2026: Bleh Edition

People training OpenAI's AI have been fired for using AI. (404 Media)

Well, yes. Exactly.

Training AI on AI output rapidly leads to something called model collapse. It's the computer equivalent of drinking your own urine.

The Other McCain - Deranged Stalker Deborah Frisch Is Out of Prison, But for How Much Longer?

More than two decades have elapsed since Deborah Frisch, Ph.D., lost her position as a psychology instructor at the University of Arizona because of her harassment of “Protein Wisdom” blogger Jeff Goldstein.

Again from William Teach - State Which Can’t Even Build A Train Crows Over “Climate Week” Participation

Say, what’s the carbon footprint of all those Warmists flying across the country?

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: An Awful Road Trip

Meanwhile, for those of you more interested in college football, here’s the marble game standings.

My Kickstarter for The Hawk, the Fox, and the Princess is at 33% with two weeks to go!

Even in Austin, Texas, Homeowners Are Armed

Austin is often described as San Francisco, Texas, but it is still Texas. South Austin homicide: Man shot by homeowner during burglary | FOX 7 Austin

Austin police responded to a report of a burglary at a home in the 200 block of Virtus Bend just before 4 a.m.

When officers arrived, they found 24-year-old Dmario Antonie Jones with gunshot wounds. EMS attempted life-saving measures, but Jones was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:10 a.m.

How would you respond to an uninvited guest at 4 o'clock in the morning?

A preliminary investigation determined that Jones entered the home and went into the bedroom. Jones was then shot by the homeowner while burglarizing the home.

The investigation is just beginning, and while I am not a lawyer, it is my understanding that every homicide in Texas gets referred to a grand jury.

Still, self-defense is a human right.

Another Cop Caught Abusing Flock Cameras

And it looks like this might be the first of many in one department. NC police officer allegedly used Flock license plate cameras to track boyfriend's ex-wife - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

The Mooresville Police Department was conducting an audit of its Flock license plate reader system when it discovered officer Elizabeth Snowman allegedly accessed the system 31 times for personal use, Mooresville Police Chief Ron Campurciani said.

"She accessed the computers, the LPR [license plate reader] cameras, to find information and track her boyfriend's ex-wife," Campurciani said at a news conference Wednesday.

The lack of security is amazing. The officer in question didn't need to be on duty to access the data. Still think you are in favor of Flock? People always say, "If you have nothing to hide..." What did the ex-wife have to hide? Just her constitutionally protected privacy. You have to be doing anything bad to have a stalker.

Mooresville, North Carolina, is roughly a 25 mile drive north of Charlotte.

Snowman, 36, was arrested and charged Wednesday with accessing computers, police said.

Welcome to the Panoptican.

Majority Supports Arming Teachers

When there is a mass shooting, the first thing people do is call for people with guns to come and deal with the situation. But the police are not there to start with, and will not arrive for some time. New Survey: Voters by a 51.4% to 35.7% Margin Support Armed Teachers, Parents with Children in K-12 Support by an Even Larger 57.3% to 30.2% Margin - Crime Prevention Research Center

The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on August 25th, 2026 (cross tabs available here) regarding general election voters’ views on allowing teachers to carry concealed handguns at schools. While voters overwhelmingly approve of the idea by a 51.4% to 35.7% margin, voters with children in K-12 schools are significantly more supportive by a 57.3% to 30.2% margin.

When seconds count, police are only minutes away. And that assumes that they won't hide outside, the way the geniuses did in Uvalde, Texas.

Only three demographic or political groups oppose armed teachers: Democrats (51.3% opposed to 35.7% supportive), liberals (48.9% to 35.1%), and those classified as “other race” (47.8% to 39.2%). Regionally, respondents in the East are essentially evenly divided, with opposition narrowly exceeding support, 42.8% to 42.3%.

Why Does ATF Want to Limit Legal Triggers?

From Shooting Weekly: SAF Wants to Know Why ATF Thinks Rare Breed’s Patent Litigation Is Any Of Its Business

Forced Rest Triggers (FRT) have been declared to be legal. The ATF hates that. The ATF told the court dealing with patent issues that they want to restrict FRT sales and development.

In a September 23 letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche, [The Second Amendment Foundation] asked DOJ to explain the factual and legal basis for ATF’s position, including why the agency claims an interest in limiting FRT distribution and why the federal government is inserting itself into private patent litigation in a way that could favor one marketplace participant over others.

Those questions matter because DOJ has already established the basic premise. ATF sees Rare Breed’s private patent litigation as useful to its own policy objectives. What SAF wants to know is why that should be ATF’s business in the first place.

Click thru for the rest of the details. (Hat tip to Instapundit.)

Mayday

I have to say that Tidal does a much better job of serving up music I like than Spotify ever did. YMMV, but Spotify had problems with my musical tastes, which, granted, are a bit bizarre. And to be fair, I'm not sure about this song. I don't hate it, but I'm not sure if it will be added to any of my playlists.

This song is "Mayday" by Three Days Grace from their 2025 album Λ𝖫𝖨𝖤𝖭Λ𝖳𝖨Ø𝖭.

Armed Self-Defense — South Africa Edition

You could also title this, "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight." Pretoria homeowner shoots intruder after being stabbed in bedroom | Rekord

A 66-year-old Pretoria homeowner allegedly shot and wounded an intruder after being stabbed during an attempted house robbery in Garsfontein.

Garsfontein is a suburb of the city of Pretoria, South Africa.

When the homeowner questioned the suspect about what he was doing in the house, the intruder allegedly produced a knife and stabbed him in his upper left arm.

The homeowner managed to retrieve his firearm and fired five shots at the suspect.

Police had both taken to a local hospital. The would-be, bad guy remains in under guard.

The investigation is in early days.

Black Man Attacked Over Fender Bender

Attacked by a bunch of black people. I have little to say. Watch the video below. ‘None of That Was Justified’: Suspects Go on Apology Tour After Video Shows Them Brutally Attacking Black Elderly Man, But Sorry Isn’t Enough

Lance Jeffries, a retired truck driver, rear-ended another vehicle Saturday in Jennings, according to St. Louis County police. Jeffries reportedly got out of his vehicle to check on the people involved in the crash when several people from the other vehicle confronted him.

No they did not "confront" him. They attacked him. Even the few media outlets that are covering this, are sugarcoating the incident.

The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Davion Alfred, 30; Martinez Logan, 25; Tamara Logan, 48; and Mary Moore, 26, with third-degree assault, second-degree robbery and second-degree burglary charges on Thursday.

According to probable cause statements, Alfred first punched the victim, causing him to fall. Alfred and the three others then “repeatedly punched, kicked, stomped, and dragged” Jeffries.

This is The Officer Tatum video Black Community IS SILENT After Black Elderly Man ATTACKED By THUGS

Cops or Bad Guys? It Can Be Hard to Tell Them Apart

I'm no longer shocked by how bad the bad cops can be. Two [Phoenix] officers under criminal investigation after victims describe violent traffic stop that wasn’t reported

Two Phoenix police officers are under criminal investigation after two people reported being beaten, tased, and held at gunpoint during a traffic stop that victims say was never documented — and that police records show no agency reported conducting.

This incident was from August, but I only just became aware of it. The article above only describes the incident, it does not name the officers in question. That information became available at the beginning of September. Phoenix police officers plead not guilty after violent 'off the books' stop

Antonio Felix and Luis Vasquez Jr. are the two former cops. Apparently the officers were put on administrative leave, but then the news broke of who they were, and they were arrested, and the chief of police fired them.

They are facing a long list of felony charges including aggravated assault, kidnapping, and tampering with evidence.

The hat tip goes to Liberty Doll and her video Cops Kidnapped, Beat Victims During Unreported Traffic Stop

So, here we are with another episode of Bad Cop Bad Cop. What you going to do when they handcuff you?

The video is about 18 and a half minutes long.

Journalist Who Said Trump Would Increase Crime Baffled

A liberal journalist (but I repeat myself) who said Trump's anti-crime initiative was all propaganda, and that it would probably make things worse, is unable to understand how things got so much better. Liberal journalist SHOCKED that DC crime has plummeted for some strange reason 🤔

Matthew Yglesias, a New York Times opinion writer, is shocked to discover the CVS near is home in DC has stopped locking the cabinets they installed during the Biden years. He can't understand how this came about, but it is a great improvement in his standard of living.

Over the past two years, D.C. has been thoroughly cleaned, with multiple restoration projects and law enforcement on the streets. The liberal media spent months wailing about this, even arguing that the deployment of the National Guard was akin to Hitler deploying S.S. troops to take over the capital.

Because they don't care about truth. They really don't care about crime, unless it impacts them, by making their trip to the drug store that much more inconvenient. They only care about Orange Man Bad.

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— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 27, 2026

Click thru for the post on X that started this, though I expect it will be deleted, which is (I'm guessing) why Andy Ngo took that screenshot. Also several of the more spicy reactions to his complete lack of understanding of cause and effect.

Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas"

The Left hates County Music. Not just the music, but the fact that it is mostly wholesome in its message. From The Baltimore Sun: How Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ became the longest-running No. 1 hit of all time.

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” a simmering, midtempo, country-and-then-some heartbreak song released last October, is indisputably 2026’s biggest hit.

“Choosin’ Texas” is also the longest-running No. 1 hit in the U.S., having spent 23 weeks at the top spot on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, it was announced Tuesday.

That means the track has surpassed various records set by Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” and most impressively, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” Her holiday classic held the previous record, with 22 weeks at No. 1.

The article linked above does a pretty good job of analyzing the musicality, and the lyrics of the song. They do try to throw some shade at Langley for not being as well known as either Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey when their songs topped the charts, but Langley's career started in 2023, this is her first big hit, and most people don't know the names of bands, aside for a few monster groups like The Rolling Stones, and the Zoomers don't even know them.

The hat tip, indirectly, goes to Benny Johnson and his video PROOF Rap Is DEAD…Homeschool Christian Country Superstar Breaks ALL-TIME Chart Record at Number 1🔥🎸

In years 2020 through 2023 Rap was 34% of songs reaching the Billboard Top 10, while Country Music was 7%. In 2025 through 2026 Country Music is 27% of charting songs, and Rap is 17%. That is a cultural shift.

Johnson's video is 10 minutes long.

I featured "Choosin' Texas" a while back, when it first started pissing off the Left. You can find it at this link if you want to listen again.

Legal Self-Defense During May 2026

Crime Prevention Research Center's ongoing roundup of cases of justified self-defense. Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 28 Cases During May 2026

Cleveland, Ohio, on May 2nd, through Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 31st, CPRC has a roundup of the cases they could find.

Click thru for the list.

The Mystery of the Disappearing EV Grants

I can't even pretend to be shocked. From the New York Post: Exclusive | Less than 40% of EV school buses purchased with Biden-era EPA grants have been delivered

Less than 40% of electric school buses purchased under a multibillion-dollar Biden-era program have been delivered, new statistics released by the EPA Thursday reveal.

The slow pace of deliveries, coupled with concerns over the reliability of the EV buses, have prompted many school districts to pull out of the $5 billion “Clean School Bus Program,” for which some $2.7 billion in taxpayer funds has already been doled out — and almost exclusively on electric buses versus other alternative fuel vehicles.

It doesn't help, that a major manufacturer, Lion Electric, went bankrupt in early 2025, canceling the warranties of any bus not sold to an entity in Quebec. Seems that they had more problems, more warranty claims, than they could afford. This left school districts with buses that they couldn't afford to repair, and couldn't get spare parts for anyway.

“Instead of following Congress’ directives to effectively provide safe and reliable transportation for American school kids, the Biden-Harris administration rushed money out the door without enough thought or oversight,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement.

“This carelessness resulted in 90% of the money going to ‘buy’ electric school buses; yet over 5 years later, there are very few tangible buses to show for it,” Zeldin continued. “In essence, American taxpayer dollars vanished into thin air, and our children were left without school buses.”

Hat tip to William Teach at Pirates Cove, and Surprise: Tons Of Biden Era Money For EV Buses Disappeared

This is government in a nutshell: rush the money out, it disappears into graft, waste, overspending, people’s pockets. It can pass through multiple NGOs, who all take their cut to pass it on, before finally being spent.

Here are a few stories on electric school buses that I've highlighted in the past.

• Electric Buses Versus Winter Weather
• EV Buses - A Safety Hazard
• Liberal, Wealthy Enclave Wastes Close to $200 Million on Electric Buses
• Canada Is Having Problems with Electric Buses

Public Funding of Private EV Bus Company

What could possibly go wrong? Proterra Government Funding: Sources, Bankruptcy Claims, and Key Takeaways

When leading U.S. electric transit bus manufacturer Proterra filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2023, it sparked widespread public scrutiny of the hundreds of millions in government funding the company had received over its 19-year history. For taxpayers, transit agencies, and policymakers, the collapse raised urgent questions: Where did all the public funding go?

Click thru for details. (Hat tip to Small Dead Animals: We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Buses.)

Turn the Page

Another song that came by way of a YouTube channel I listen to from time to time. (That I forgot to schedule last night...)

This song is "Turn the Page" by singer-songwriter Bob Seger. It was originally on his 1973 album, Back in '72. This version is from the 1976 album Live Bullet. The album was recorded in September of 1975 at Cobo Arena in Detroit.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 26 September

EBL starts the roundup with John Jay

24 September 1789: John Jay nominated by Washington as first Chief Justice
AoSHQ: Morning Report 09.24.26

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.24.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Glenn Reynolds: A Tale of Two Centuries
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet: Wednesday September 23rd, also, Maskh*les

The Right Way - Top of the News

Immigration without assimilation: Death knell for the West - American Thinker
Thousands Protest Iran Regime Outside UN - NEWSMAX

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 23 September 2026: Blep Edition

Apple's latest version of iOS has ads. In the Settings panel. (Tech Radar)
And the only way to turn them off is to buy the product being advertised.
Well, I'm safe.

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – The midterms. We are all CNN. Fake Palestinians.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Moderate Muslims. Drag Queens for Gaza.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Having Xi for Tea

PJM's Sarah Anderson is not happy, Venezuela: Trump and Delcy Pose for a Picture. María Corina Machado Denied Entry. At Hat Hair John Sexton considers Is Another Russian Mobilization Coming?

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.24.26 (Evening Edition)

Transterrestrial Musings: Media Hoaxes, also, A New Anti-Aging Theory
Victory Girls: Karoline Leavitt Outs WH Press Corps As Perfomative Phonies, also, Damn the Facts! Full Speed Into Getting The Results We Want!

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For September 25, 2026

“Supreme Court Clears Trump Admin To Use Voter Citizenship Verification.”
“USDA Targets 170 NYC Retailers in SNAP Fraud Sweep. ‘SNAP benefits should go to Americans, not fraudsters or illegal immigrants,’ White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud”

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 09/25/2026 – Washington Post Continues to Die in Darkness!

Resistance to Trump’s D.C. crackdown is taking many forms
Yes, we’ve reached the point where The Radical Left is protesting in favor of more crime. It really is a mental illness.

The Glibertarians - Last Thursday of the Month Afternoon Links

That crazy snatch will make a man crazy.
Based on previous winners, this guy is a shoe-in for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Vlad Tepes - Some interesting counter propaganda and looking at the left’s efforts to use Islam to destroy all Western identity: Links post for Sept. 24, 2026

3. The tolerance of the left
4. Quite often, it is the small things that mean everything. What the judge said, tells you everything you need to know, and what this site has been saying for years now.

Again from Pixy Misa - Daily News Stuff 25 September 2026: Bleh Edition

People training OpenAI's AI have been fired for using AI. (404 Media)
Well, yes. Exactly.
Training AI on AI output rapidly leads to something called model collapse.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 9/23/2026

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, on Wednesday introduced a 12-month moratorium on new data centers amid concerns about the industry’s effects on the city’s power grid

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.25.26

Sensurround: Speak Softly & Point Out The B-2
Ammo.com: How Criminals Get Guns

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Meanwhile In Academia: No Reverse Racism At Auburn; DEI Leadership Programs At Kentucky; Teaching Institutionalization In New Jersey

Apparently not having DEI doesn’t mean you can’t train people into spreading it.
In New Jersey, courses still teach that “White Privilege” is “Institutionalized” (Pepsi hardest hit).

Maggie's Farm - Thursday morning links

Schrödinger’s blunder created the quantum measurement problem. Quantum reality has both waves and particles
My late friend Peter Max filled my home with art — and my life with memories

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 9/ 24 /26

Even as manufacturing jobs decline, Alaska offers lucrative work for men without college degrees.
America’s Shifting Blue-Collar Landscape

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Beware of CCP Unrestricted Warfare

Mexico's Government Funds Gun Grabbing Group - BattleSwarm
'We Hacked the FBI:' Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees - Joseph Cox

I leave you with Midweek Memes at Granite Grok, Thursday Memes … from MaddMedic, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4210 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Bookworm Beat 9/25/26: The “America the…uh…beautiful” meme edition from Bookworm Room, and Your politics and current events in memes from Wirecutter.

More on a Self-Defense Incident in California

Today the original story is a Humboldt County Sheriff's Office press release. Parolee Shot by Resident during Home Invasion Burglary

This is a story I covered on 18 September, but we have more information today, and we have commentary by Mr. Colion Noir. He usually has interesting things to say.

On September 14, 2026, at approximately 4:34 p.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications Center received a 9-1-1 call from a resident in ... Eureka reporting that he had shot a male subject who had forcibly entered his residence.

Humboldt County, California, is about 165 miles north of San Francisco. It is right on the Pacific coast.

The guy who got shot ran off, but cops arrested him a short time later. He faces charges of burglary, Felon/Addict in Possession of a Firearm, Unauthorized Entry of an Occupied Dwelling, and violating his parole.

This is Colion Noir's video A Parolee, A Forced Entry, And A Homeowner Who Refused To Be A Victim. Mr. Noir gets the hat tip. He points out all of the important parts of the press release, and covers the stuff omitted by, or just touched on, by the Sheriff's Office.

Based on the evidence gathered during the investigation, deputies determined the victim acted out of fear for their life when Aubrey was shot. The victim was not arrested in connection with the shooting. The case has been forwarded to the Humble County District Attorney's Office for review.

The video is four and a half minutes long.

The Wild West Comes to Chicago with Train Robberies

From CWB Chicago: Apple Watches, TVs and laundry detergent: Chicago freight train thefts fuel $200 million national problem - CWB Chicago

Freight trains passing through Chicago have increasingly become moving targets for thieves who board railcars, sometimes while they are moving, force open shipping containers and haul away cargo ranging from large-screen televisions and laptops to air conditioners and laundry detergent.

It is a problem that has been growing, and because Chicago is a rail crossroads, it is a big problem. (Chicago does not have the larges railcar switching yard, but it has several yards, and several freight lines that converge on the region. And at times, freight trains move slowly.

The article starts with a mention of the crime from 2015, and then moves to 2 years ago.

In August 2024, Chicago police arrested four men accused of stealing 39 big-screen Roku televisions worth $12,441 from a Norfolk Southern railcar near 63rd Street and South Wentworth Avenue. According to a police report, a CPD camera operator saw the men loading the televisions into a pickup truck at a gas station next to the tracks.

There are more incidents, including one from this year.

Crime does pay in a place like Chicago, because while some people are caught, not all are.