A typical American abattoir, Showcase (UD came up with a better name) is of course noisy and gunny all night long. AND it seems to sit right in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Does Garfield Heights have any zoning ordinances?
Trashy Galveston has enough problems without a yearly plague of plastered Trumpers in Wagoneers. All gunned up and ready to rev, they get in fights, puke and piss on the sand, and crash their Gladiators into other Gladiators.
After the killings, etc., last year, locals have fled, leaving their houses to the hundreds and hundreds of police gathered from all over the region (they’re also looking at the National Guard option). America doesn’t have many (any?) truly ‘police state’ locations, but Galveston during Jeep Weekend really does fit the bill — the very population of the place is wall to wall police. The town has imposed new insanely restrictive rules, is confiscating guns, and has basically promised the revelers that they’re going to try every ruse they can think of to arrest them.
B-but it’s an unsanctioned event, UD!
Yes, Dear Reader, but even if, next year, Galveston officials greet each arriving Jeep owner with a prophylactic spray of tear gas, nothing will deter these patriots. They don’t give a shit about sanctions.
Bikers compete in the burn out pit at Suck Bang Blow bar in Murrells Inlet, S.C. during the 2024 Myrtle Beach Spring Rally. Their spinning tires burn rubber often shredding tires and filling the air with smoke, the roar of engines and the cheers from the crowd.
The disgraced CEO of Nightingale Properties says he “learned a valuable lesson” about how he shouldn’t be trusted with other people’s money after admitting to a $63M fraud scheme.
Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz is hoping to avoid jail time after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud in February, which carries a maximum 20-year sentence.
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Good boy, Elie! You learned a lesson.
And now you may go.
Thomas Hubert Parker Jr., of Bainbridge, was arrested on May 15, 2025, for allegedly shooting parts of the school zone speed cameras on Shotwell Street, according to investigators with Bainbridge Public Safety.
… Parker is facing 3 counts of “Possession of Tools for the Commission of a Crime” and “Interference with Government Property.”
… Parker is a Doctor of Anesthesiology…
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Shotwell Street LOL.
Here’s the new offending technology. The school district has pushed too far on this one — if you really make people in Georgia slow down, you can expect them to shoot out the school zone system.
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UD thought it might have, er, implications for his employment. I forgot it’s the southland. He’s been named Employee of the Month.
Trial coming up for one of the University of Alabama’s many gun-mad basketball players. Couple years ago a whole bunch of players went out for some fun and ended up shooting a woman to death. I mean, one of them, a friend of the players’, actually shot her, but one of the players provided the gun blahblah.
So the guy who actually shot her just got sentenced to life without parole, and things don’t look too good for the player who handed him the gun. Trial coming up.
Another player out with his teammates that night had already established a “pat-down” entrance whenever introduced before a game (this was a precursor to the much higher profile Ja Morant bit), and he kept it going even after he began to be investigated in connection with the murder. Straightlaced Deadspin considered the fact that the pat-down guy was allowed to play at all “quite shocking,” but c’mon. It’s ALABAMA.
Anyway, here’s a local opinion writer gettin all boohoo bout bloody Bama but really baby nobody gives a shit.
Now that he’s on trial, he’s hunched over a big bible during testimony.
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I guess it could work…
And he was returned to his original school why? Having wisely ejected an insane child now charged with terrorism, the school armed itself against him and took him back?
Interestingly, the focus of this article about him is not whatever rules, or whatever idiocy specific to this school, let him return with his immense, elaborate, killing gear; it’s his mother.
The mother of a [San Antonio] middle school student [that means the kid is 11 to 14] allegedly bought ammunition, magazines and tactical gear for her son, who had expressed a desire to carry out “acts of mass violence” at Jeremiah Rhodes Middle School, according to SAPD.
Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested on Monday on charges of aiding in commission of terrorism, court records show. She bought the items “with knowledge” that they would be “used to plan and carry out” a crime.
On Monday, the student showed up to Rhodes Middle School campus “wearing a mask, camouflage jacket and tactical pants but left shortly after,” police said... [A family member had earlier] contacted SAPD about items found in the possession of Pardo‘s son, including rifle and pistol ammunition, black tactical gear and an improvised explosive device made from a mortar-style firework. The family member also stated they found three loaded magazines and a note that had several names of mass shooters written on it. Some of the items were inscribed with “14 words” and “SS” symbols – references to white supremacy language and previous mass shootings…
You can buy your kid all the guns and bombs and masks you want, but you can’t give him the guts to use them.
Look at this. A high tea for dogs. That’s not even funny. That’s just degenerate.
Where is it being held?
Cape Town South Africa. Speaking of which, how many dollars to three hundred rand? The tea costs 300 for your dog, 350 for you.
Five hundred dollars…?
[UD looks it up.]
Hahahahahaha you are so wrong. Try again. It goes the other way, doodoo.
Five cents.
Hahahahahaha $16.35.
[Later that same day]
UD: Tea for two South Africans at the Baccarat Hotel NYC costs 54,977.28 rand.
… AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS SWOLLEN FACE.
… at the same moment, California guv tells all state municipalities to get going on the removal of all homeless encampments, and the PM of GB announces the country’s becoming an “island of strangers,” and needs new severe crackdowns on immigration.
Civic life, national life – What do these mean? We can toss that around all day, but at the end of the day, big majorities of people living in most countries/regions want a successfully assimilated population of people who don’t inject in the street.
‘[M]y rifle could reasonably have caused you to feel uncomfortable or intimidated … ‘
Just as much fun as the monkey chants and banana tosses whenever a black player enters the field!
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
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As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
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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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