Michelle Goldberg, a wonderful writer always worth reading, reviews Elon’s spending habits.
Lawyers from [Harmeet Dhillon’s Civil Rights] office .. carried out some DOJ efforts that critics said were political vendettas, such as an unsuccessful attempt to indict former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee.
The inept apparatchik carrying out Trump’s insane orders has resigned, having lost virtually all the insane cases the insane Trump made her file.
After a decade of Trump on the political scene, he is entering his Fat Elvis phase: tired, old, overweight, awful-sounding and embarrassing-looking.
The new Texas AG has announced that unlike colossally creepy Ken Paxton, he won’t sue out of state docs for mailing abortion pills to Texas.
The state will “cease using Texas abortion laws as an instrument of persecution and intimidation, harassment and political showboating. All four of those things have happened.” Under colossally creepy Paxton.
Don’t overlook a judge having just ruled against super-icky F. Giro in her fruitless GIMME A BUNCH OF MONEY PLUS MY JOB BACK quest. Harvard dumped her when her research was revealed to be bogus to the max, but since then she’s hit up the courts as she seeks retenuring and all the trimmings.
Harvard (endowment $68 billion) seems able to afford any further litigation from her, so the beat goes on.
All of my posts about her.
Devastating detail here. With the help of moneybag friends who perceive no difference between doctored and undoctored research, Giro will undoubtedly continue her romp through the courts. Subsidizing her is as crazy as giving money to Republican political candidates.
“Well look, you not only have to question the judgment of a man who would take a woman, an elderly woman, out of the car she was living in, in a parking lot of a church in Pennsylvania with her cats and put her in front of a video camera and make that a TV ad in a gubernatorial race,” [Chris Christie] said.
Christie said the “real problem going forward” was Vance standing up for Ramaswamy “100 percent … not only as a person and a candidate, but he stood behind that ad.”
… Leave the phone at a distance, on a shelf
Vivek don’t call that number
All your dreams are tossed and blown
There’s no way that you’ll feel better
So get on home”
…the midterms acted like a cleansing wave, ridding the party of many of its worst representatives, like Ken Paxton in Texas. “Well, we’re at rock bottom,” a Republican pollster said. “But there’s a lot fewer guys around to dig.”’
Senator El-Sayed waves goodbye to his opponent as he boards the Asshole Express to Florida.
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As for Ramaswamy, I hear Wall Street can’t wait to welcome him back.
Elon Musk has a new tee shirt.
Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind
Of joy my actions turn on, like a thread
Carrying beads? Shall I be let to sleep
Now this perpetual morning shares my bed?
Can even death dry up
These new delighted lakes….
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https://voetica.com/poem/5811
O Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo
Where d’ya go go go go go go go
Said it better than I ever could.
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‘Democrats are on track to win control of the Senate — an unthinkable scenario just a few weeks ago.
Republicans suffered devastating losses in South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, North Carolina and Kansas, with GOP officials bracing for potentially more defeats.’
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“Democrats capture full control of Congress, NBC News projects, fueled by victories in deeply Republican states.”
They’re calling it for Amy Acton, which only goes to show that sometimes in life the bad guy finishes last. Acton won handily against this espèce de merde, this individual about whom none of us, please God, has ever to think again.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DqvyF9Z4f/?mibextid=wwXIfr
“My sincerest wish is that tomorrow is the last day I ever have to hear the names Ken Paxton or Vivek Ramaswamy.”
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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...
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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If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
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