The guy who did the Reflecting Pool work.

So there’s the university angle, which interests us here at University Diaries (though lack of qualifications earning a person a job at a Spanish or Italian university isn’t exactly news — that’s one of the ways your big whole entire modern rich country gets exactly one university on a respectable position on the international ‘best of’ lists, and that one – U of Barcelona – only staggers up to #88 on one list, and #145 on another). But the Spanish PM’s now-arrested wife’s expanded list of misdeeds is far sexier than squatting on a university position for which you don’t qualify: ‘embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds.’

UD admits to relief at this bigtime Spanish corruption story. She has missed the almost-fall of the monarchy (King Juan Carlos; his daughter; his daughter’s ex-husband) due to breathtaking corruption. So now she has this.

David Hearn comes from a longtime, superathletic, Garrett Park family. (This says born in ‘thesda, but that should read Garrett Park.). Updates as they become available.

On June 19, 2026, Hearn was arrested by United States Park Police officers on the charge of misdemeanor destruction of government property near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. At the time of the incident, Donald Trump had accused “vandals” of sabotaging the pool’s $13.1 million renovation, which was plagued with algal blooms and peeling paint days after its completion. In an interview with The Washington Post, Hearn said he had reached into the pool to feel the texture of the peeling paint, and had not removed or damaged anything.

… in favor of Andy Burnham.

In the last week, UD’s done a Sound of Music Singalong and a Songs of Tom Lehrer Singalong. And she read from Molly Bloom’s soliloquy on Bloomsday.

They always say that.

In this case, a year after a sixteen year old killed three people at a local fair, organizers insist it can’t happen again. But “Utah lacks every foundational gun violence prevention law,” see, and that’s how sixteen year olds get hold of guns and blast away in front of the Ferris wheel crowds.

Oh but calm down, silly. The shooting was targeted.

‘James Williams [was] wearing a handgun in a chest holster, as well as a bandoleer with additional ammo and a body camera…. [Police also found on the man] two revolvers and bandoleers of ammo. [On a nearby tractor,] police found another revolver, an AR-15, several knives and a bayonet.’

Oh come now. College football stinks to high heaven, and the effort of Texas Tech to retain a filthy quarterback (“Somebody’s gambling on a sport they’re playing. You don’t think something’s wrong with that?”) is merely the latest defining stinkbomb.

The school, and the state’s poster boy for purulence, Ken Paxton, have withdrawn their lawsuits, while the QB himself has gone to a better, ethics-free place (the NFL). All is well, and schools like Texas Tech may proceed to their next shit-clogged hero.

“Both individuals lived together in a recreational vehicle in which they had been trapping, feeding and breeding wild rats. In addition, the vehicle was severely infested with wild rats that were not in cages.”

The French academic establishment takes ten years to nail a notorious plagiarist. We wrote about him in 2016, and must have figured something would happen…

And it did! It did! Yesterday.

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!

Sing it.

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