And what better possession for an Alzheimer’s sufferer than a pistol with which he can threaten his neighbor?
But in the wonderfully mixed up way of these United States, the one that looks Jewish won’t work for a Jew, and the one that looks Irish is a proud kippah-wearing Jew.
Never the twain would have met, except that the Jew invited the anti-semite (a rising junior at Cornell) to apply for a job at his startup, and the anti-semite’s now hugely viral response was “Not interested in working for a Jew.”
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The Jew – the hero of the piece – posted the lad’s anti-semitic turndown, but went to some trouble to erase his name: “He’s just a student, he might not know any better — it could be people in his environment, or on social media he saw something about Jewish people and he is just following the wave.”
The anti-semite’s name got out anyway, and … you can imagine. His life has become a lot more difficult than it was before he sussed out a Jew based (he explains) on his “physiognomy.”
And yet the Jew returns vileness with kindness: “At the end of the day, I hope he realizes that he shouldn’t have generalized like that. … You never know who you might work with, or work for, or be friends with that comes from a different background or different religion. I really don’t wish that he ends up not finding a job from it. I just hope he learns from it, and people can realize he changed and accept it.”
Cornell’s investigating the dude, etc. I guess it’s possible he could be expelled.
I’m with the long-suffering Jew – the student is 19 years old. Shaddup and give him a chance to change. He’s been called out enough.
In any case, his real problem ain’t with UD and her fellow Jews. He has I’m sure attracted the attention of the equally highly educated Richard Spencer and his gang. There’s a whole anti-semitic cadre in this country just waiting for bright young recruits to groom for frontline positions.
I mean, Alice in Wonderland if three-year-old Alice were bound with rope and had her clitoris amputated.
’Justice Nagarathna asked [the advocate for the practice] what the objective of this practice was.
“To increase the sexual pleasure of women,” [the advocate] replied.
Justice Amanullah immediately interjected … and said, “It is just the opposite.”’
The school has already announced three new university-wide, required courses:
PHILOSOPHY OF FOOTBALL
YOUR WALK WITH JESUS
GUNS! GUNS! GUNS! GUNS!
After you’ve gone and left us cheering
After you’ve gone and left us jeering
You’ll feel blue, you’ll feel sad
You’ll miss the dearest wall you’ve ever had
Now your name’s gone and we’ll forget it
When you’re gone too we won’t regret it
After you’re gone, after you’re gone away
We’ve followed slutty perverted Texas Tech for long years at UD, and nothing that comes out of that school’s superwide reeking asshole surprises us here.
Other people pretend surprise that their quarterback is a moral degenerate; but really? It’s Texas. It’s Texas Tech.
Washington DC is about to experience Brightness at Noon:
‘Trump’s Name is Still on the Kennedy Center — Officials Say it will be Down by Noon’
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On Friday, Allerton Kilborn, 79, brought a book to occupy him while he waited for what he hoped would be the removal of Mr. Trump’s name. He had traveled to the Kennedy Center from his home in Chevy Chase, Md.
“For the adventure of it — this is history,” he said.
“I’m so old that I once met John Kennedy and have been an enormous fan of his,” he said. He said he thought the addition of Mr. Trump’s name had been a desecration of the memorial to Kennedy.
“I’m not religious,” he said, “but I see it in religious terms.”
Not her famous “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” Today she would write
Leptospirosis a rosis a rosis a rosis.
Nicely written article about a hotel in the Atacama Desert.
Homelessness in the SF area … UD can’t figure out how to finish this sentence. Read the article.
LOLOLOL. The words Italian, football, and fraud in one sentence — of course. The word shock in the same sentence? Scompisciarsi dalle risate…
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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.
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[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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