Not if you keep shooting it to death.
‘Yet another shooting here…’
‘Nice place to get lit up and by lit up I mean shot…’
‘At the end of the night end up getting locked inside for a short time because something was going on outside the club. However, I will say their security guard Mike was phenomenal and great. Helped me get my friend into our car safely…’
Patron reviews say it all, don’t they? But no one in Denver gives a shit, so the POPOPOPOPOPOP keeps popping along.
Tucson’s mayor, surveying her city’s bloody streets after another mundane massacre, wonders why morons with magnums still rule her world.
Demand for Mansions in the Billionaire Haven Palm Beach Is ‘Unrelenting’
‘So on the question of [multiple sexes] being “settled science,” as the AAA said at the time, there was a survey in 2022, published in the journal Forensic Anthropology, that asked forensic anthropologists about this question, and 42 percent of them said they agree that sex is binary, and 56 percent disagreed that it’s binary. So that ratio would seem to indicate that, in the field, the question hadn’t actually been settled, and I was wondering how you explain that.
I don’t believe in opinion research… I just don’t trust opinion polling.’
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Rational deliberation from the prez of the American Anthropological Association.
They refuse to sit next to women on planes, and I guess sometimes airlines accommodate their assholery; but when they don’t, things can get very bad very quickly. The latest incident featured a Sharia maniac slapping a female crew member who attempted to reason with him when he did his no-women-next-to-me thing. He was arrested.
And, once comfortably assembled, it can comfortably blow out your brain.
Indeed the ease and comfort of gun suicide is one reason its incidence in this country is soaring.
You can even be a psychologically fragile 18 year old and all you have to do is send away for your very own suicide kit — no questions asked! — and bingo you’re out of the running. Too easy…
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Ken’s campaign looked all grody
The AG was all wet
Then Ken told big Cody
He’d deliver the threat
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Yes what a difference Cody’s bucks made
Cody just forked ‘em over
Ken’s campaign got an upgrade
Now he’s living in clover
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It’s heaven when you
Find a shakedown on your menu
What a difference a day makes
And the difference is TTU
Whether hookah or biker, lounge or breastaurant, the best way to haul out all your guns and kill people is to pack into one of these epicenters of the violent mentally retarded. Country music and cheap beer provide the atmospherics, the specifically American gestalt, for the ripping open of more tattooed flesh than you can shake a stick of numbing cream at.
A biker bar in Connecticut is the latest abattoir; on Facebook (see this post’s title) a knowledgeable local explains why she stopped going to the place.
… is such that sometimes our suffering in dying overwhelms, and we want it to end.
France has now joined ten countries, plus some states/regions in the US and Germany, where assisted dying is legal.
LOL.
AI.
This blog has spent long years covering the supreme moral and financial corruption of Rutgers New Brunswick. Rutgers Newark has gotten lost in the shuffle, but now in its own small way that campus is making a contribution to the filth.
One of its deans seems to be self-dealing, getting the university to pay for faculty retreats at businesses she happens to own.
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UPDATE: WHYY has the numbers.
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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.
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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.
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