Taylor Swift endorses…

… Whoops — that’s La Kid.

‘Asked about his ideas for healthcare for Americans, he replied with: “I have concepts of a plan.”’

SING IT.

Concepts of a plan
Concepts of a plan
Into debate we’re thrown
Into a flop full-blown
Like a Haitian-eaten dog
Like a madman monologue
Concepts of a plan

There’s Kamala on the road
My brain is squirmin’ like a toad
Took a long holiday
All my concepts went astray
If you give this bitch a ride
Sweet Jesus you will die
Concepts of a plan

MAGA gotta love your man
MAGA gotta love your man
Concepts of a plan!
I know you understand!
My world on you depends
Our greatness never ends
Gotta love your man, yeah

“There’s nothing worse than a pissed bigot, on stage with a woman he can’t control.”

Michael Steele.

“You take a guy like Esper, he was no good I fired him, so he writes a book. Another one writes a book, because with me they can write a book with nobody else can

they.”

“Perhaps men are too emotional to be President,” said Justin Wolfers, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan.

Trump’s team has asked for a box of hankies at the next debate.

“I’ve seen people on television!”

“They’re eating the dogs!” he said. “The people that came in — they’re eating the cats!”

Ms. Harris threw her head back. She clasped her hands. Mr. Muir refuted the claims as Mr. Trump glowered.

“I’ve seen people on television!” he protested. “People on television say, ‘My dog was taken and used for food!’”

Ms. Harris shook her head, projecting the deep concern of a disappointed relative.

In response to Taylor Swift’s post-debate Kamala Harris endorsement, the Trump/Vance team excitedly shares mother-of-nineteen Michelle Duggar’s endorsement.

‘Praise the Lord! Every time President Trump mentioned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is working every day to keep Hungarian young women out of college and in the bedroom, I knew that Trump and especially Vance mean it when they say NO MORE CHILDLESS LADIES. All praise the killers of Roe v Wade!!! I enthusiastically endorse the Republican ticket.

‘Family members have described a home life defined by abuse, neglect, drug use, and deadly access to a cache of weapons. At least two of Colt’s family members were aware of the boy’s allegedly abusive living situation and troubled home life.’

‘[Another family member] said that Colt “was begging for help from everybody around him.”’

Nancy Lanza, Deja Taylor, the Crumbleys, Colin Gray – the crazed, gun-obsessed parents of America’s littlest mass killers/mass killers in waiting — what are we to say about them? Is there anything we can do?

There are so many of them by now. The list of four highlights only the most depraved/pitiable progenitors of the sickest of the shooters; but it’s easy to recall plenty more child/preteen/teen predators with a smaller body count, or with a higher age of slaughter-onset. These are America’s version of Africa’s child soldiers, automata we glance at in court and quickly look away from because we are totally not interested in taking on board just how grotesque a gun culture we have now achieved, how the AR-15 revolution is actively eating its children, how generational gun insanity is upon us. Crazy people with guns produce crazy children with guns; and families and neighbors watch it happen and think none of my business or hey maybe weaponizing this troubled kid will help him.

Gun laws in this country will only become more lax. No point looking there. The only thing that might make a difference is vigilance — people in the orbit of graphically fucked up and highly armed families finding the guts to call the authorities. It take guts cuz duh these are nutty violent people with twenty guns.

And then the authorities must do whatever they can do — remove the guns, take the killer-to-be out of the classroom, detain the parents for other shit they have going on (drugs, illegal weapons, child abuse, disturbing the peace, whatever) — to begin neutralizing America’s emergent children’s army.

Idaho: Big Whoop

“We think of ourselves as in the same basket as the top ten worst health care states, like Mississippi and Alabama,” says Strom Courtland, member of the Idaho House, and chair of its Health and Welfare Committee. “As of now, we’re ranked something like 26th worst, but aspirationally we see ourselves much higher than that. The current list is dominated by the deep south, yet with our high rates of vaccination refusal, hatred of all forms of local and federal government presence, anti-abortion laws so lethal our docs are leaving and we can’t get any to replace them (plus of course several of our hospitals have closed their labor and delivery units!), and, finally, with a statewide disbelief in empirical science, our ranking can’t go anywhere but up.

And I’m particularly proud to announce today that, because so many of us don’t vaccinate our children, rates of WHOOPING COUGH – yes, you read that right, a painful protracted children’s disease eradicated in the nineteenth century! – have exploded in our state! Like KAAAPOWWWW!!!! Sit tight, Idaho, and watch all our babies cough up blood!

“Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials.”

FROM THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN EASTMAN

SUBJECT: DONOR #9,180,454: MARGARET SOLTAN, AKA Margaret Rapp, AKA Margaret Rapoport

EXHIBIT A:

EXHIBIT B see attached donation records in the amount of $500

Notes: As Margaret Rapp, daughter of CAREER FEDERAL SCIENTIST Herbert J Rapp born CHAIM RAPOPORT (source: Tucker Carlson), she performed at George McGovern candidate concert, Garrett Park, MD, August 1972. Married to Karol Edward Soltan, paid agent of G. Soros as codirector of Summer School in Political Science, Warsaw, Poland (mid ‘nineties), and uncle of Andrzej Soltan, currently employed in Warsaw, Poland as language instructor to Ukrainian refugees.

Liz Cheney: “This is my diplomatic way of…

… saying it: They’re misogynistic pigs.

Today at the Kansas State Fair: Best Apple Pie; Best…

Drunk Brandishing a Gun.

There goes his reelection bid.

’14-year-olds don’t need AR-15s.’

La Kid, chic as usual…

… in Takoma Park, Md., on this absolutely beautiful day.

WHEEHOOOO Saturday Night in Kentucky!

 ‘Kentucky has some of the weakest gun laws in the country, […] while having one of the nation’s highest gun violence rates.

But that’s just words, babe. That’s just words! Here’s what it’s like on the ground. On the road.

Looks like a whole bunch of people were shot down Saturday night on Interstate 75 by a dude arrested not long ago for Terroristic Threatening but you know still out there fully armed. It’s Kentucky!

He’s still at large, still fully armed, so, you know, WATCH YOURSELF.

“When our first two units got to the scene there, they said it was a madhouse: people on the sides of the road, emergency flashers going, bullet holes, windows shot out, nine vehicles shot. Can you imagine that? Just chaotic.”  This sheriff dept spokesman is so silly! Don’t sound like much more than your typical UK tailgate… And it’s so stupid because as Wayne LaPierre says  The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun so where was he? Kentucky needs more people to carry more guns so next time there’s a mass shooting on an interstate people can grab a Glock in their glove compartment and shoot right back and neutralize the bad guy. Piece of cake. Clean as a whistle.

Meanwhile yeah thoughts and prayers for the mass casualties for real!

Update: They found the AR-15 but not the shooter. Maybe he killed himself with one of his other 25 or so guns.

Nother: Says he’ll kill himself after he feels he has finished his work.

Next Page »

Latest UD posts at IHE

Archives

Categories

Bookmarks

UD REVIEWED

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.
Notes of a Neophyte