Stupidity and arrogance — the very heart of the thing.
Canadian doo-doos are now deep in doo-doo.
… but there’s nothing all that funny about a system that nurtures and protects high-born degenerates. Something to think about as we enjoy the cheap thrill of the queen of England’s son in handcuffs.
You can pity this family, which perished on a brutally hot California hike because they had no understanding of what they were walking into; you feel less empathy for this more recent dead group. They, and the tour company that led them into a massive storm/avalanche (lawsuits incoming), knew perfectly well they assumed a humongous risk.
Why why why? Everyone’s asking.
UD thinks a lot of it is bragging rights – same thing that leaves frozen bodies on Everest.
Only in America would the outcome of Colt’s father’s second degree murder trial be in doubt. His enthusiastic abetting of his son’s mass murder is as obvious as the fact that his son would commit one. He should get at least fifteen years behind bars.
With him and the Crumbleys safely locked away, maybe other gunnies molding their own wee shooters will think twice about AK47s for Xmas.
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Reminder: Get ready for the Gun as Self-Consuming Artifact trial! This is the case where the parents gave the code to their gun case to their psychotic 15 year old and he killed the whole family. Except for one kid who got shot but managed to crawl out of a window.
Australia’s decision, yesterday, to refuse entry to a bunch of ISIS adherents (they have to go back to their camp in Syria) has occasioned another round of ISIS bride language. These women aren’t ideologically committed violent fanatics – only men have the brains to be that. No, they put on their white veils or whatever and did the brood mare thing for whatever incomprehensible nonsense Ahmad was spouting…
It’s simply a measure of how far women haven’t come that everyone feels comfortable denigrating these fully paid cult members in this way. I mean FUCK. The one thing these chicks weren’t is anything remotely resembling what anyone in the history of the English language has ever meant by the word BRIDE.
Read what Shamima Begum said attracted her to ISIS. She particularly loved videos of beheadings.
Stop with the bride shit.
The phrase ‘courting death’ comes to mind.
We’re on it! We’re DEF on it, y’all!!
She hasn’t written about it because she hasn’t been able to control her emotions.
It is now coming to an end.
How did it ever start?
‘With respect, Mr President, Judge Leon is a Republican, Federalist Society jurist – the complete opposite of Raskin. Very Catholic education and background. Impeccable conservative credentials. You and Hegseth seem to have made Leon angry by trying to destroy the life of one of America’s most decorated military heroes. Maybe let it go?’
Can’t make this shit up.
The article wins the Most Use Of the Word ‘Pro-Abortion’ award. It’s a great word, conjuring images of the professor at issue loudly cheering on any woman thinking of getting one. GO FOR IT HON!! YEAH!!
I’m sure Capo Rhoades will get his way and succeed in forcing out a voice of dissent. But that’s just one voice, my man. Sixty percent of Catholics favor abortion rights. Got your work cut out for you, huh?
UD’s favorite part, always, is when we start to hear from the lawyers.
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
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