SOS says: Virtually all style guides prefer administering to administrating. Stick with administering.

Or, as a headline expressing the absurdity of trying to name the place Trump/Kennedy has it, COURT SAYS TRUMP CAN’T NAME THE KENNEDY CENTER AFTER HIMSELF.

Plastering over the name of a man whose death convulsed the country. Muscling aside the memorializing of national tragedy for the sake of juvenile conceit. It was too disgusting for a judge not to notice.

As long as the United States has a legitimate judiciary, we can hope for more outcomes like this.

UD will make every effort to be there to record the sandblasting of the name Trump.

Nothing remotely like it will happen; but of course Deresiewicz is right. Some humanities professors should be encouraged to write lively art criticism, for instance, in the sort of places that have a bit of a profile and some actual readers. But the unread hyperspecialized stuff should end.

It won’t.

Two of their football heroes got drunk and started screaming at each other in a Dewey Beach parking lot. At 3 AM.

One’s a thief.

Both lied about their identities.

Police said both suspects attempted to flee on foot as officers continued their investigation. During the attempted detention, a struggle broke out and one suspect allegedly interfered with officers trying to take the other into custody. Officers reported that one suspect was stopped after a Taser was deployed, while the second continued resisting arrest before being restrained with assistance from a bystander. Both were charged with disorderly conduct, felony resisting arrest with force or violence, offensive touching of a law enforcement officer, providing false information to police, and two counts of underage possession or consumption of alcohol.

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And this one was just a few days ago. Poor Whitman.

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UD thanks her sister for the link.

Sierra Leone’s First Lady says YES!!! to clit-stripping. Almost every little girl in that country is held down and castrated by village butchers and Jabbe-Bio couldn’t be more proud.

Good summary of our focus here at University Diaries over the years. It’s from Theo Baker, whose book provides useful Stanford University orientation materials.

UD’s loving the Spy Who Came in with the Gold – a real pot boiler, destined to become a classic of its type.

How did the mysterious self-fabricator David Rush gain entry to the CIA in the first place, much less be promoted to a senior agency position? How did he – like the pyramid-building Egyptians; like the Moia-mounting Easter Islanders – move thousands of gold bars into his suburban Virginia manse? An enigma for the ages.

Like David himself. Like the super well-endowed federal agency that fed him the bullion while he fed it the bull.

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And these are only the opening chapters. Where do we go from here? UD is panting to know. Certain incipient plot lines are obvious – his explanation that he had a debilitating gambling addiction, frinstance… Was he clever enough NOT to buy seven Aston Martins in order to avoid suspicion? We’ve heard not a peep about his car collection.

Did a Russki kleptocrat on orders from Putin set the whole thing up?

Is it good for the Jews?

He’s not quite comfortable looking straight at the mug shot camera, but then he’s used to cloak and dagger. His dark identity needs to be carefully protected, along with the reason why, as a high-ranking CIA officer, he stole forty million dollars worth of gold bars, courtesy of your federal taxes.

Oh – also oodles of foreign currency, and “three dozen luxury watches, many of them Rolexes.”

He lied to the CIA about pretty much everything, including his extensive, totally made up, education. And was rewarded with a senior position that lasted decades. What gives? Is he a mole?

UD wonders if the current administration, faced with unbelievable negligence and stupidity at the highest level of American intelligence, will be able to blame it on an earlier administration.

A reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Ed offers a book-length interview with the curiouser and curiouser Dan Ariely – a Duke sociologist already outed as a likely research fraudster (sometimes with his buddy, the notorious F. Giro).

Ariely is now being … scrutinized because of his long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a friendship he talks about with the same idiocy/evasion as his other buddy, none other than Prince Andrew himself!

Okay, merely an acquaintance. They had tea together in a palace. But read the whole Ariely interview to see what a slightly smarter, slicker, Andrew would have said.

I think that we are developing very much a fear culture. I feel that given that I was in the Epstein files, I feel that I’m lucky that I’m a social scientist. If I were a physicist, I would just get the negative consequences. As a social scientist, I get to also learn something new about humanity. So every time somebody calls to wonder or to cancel or something, I have a discussion with them. And I try to understand what is going on. And my sense is that we are getting to be more of a culture that is driven by fear.

Driven by fear, or by disgust that amoral elites don’t give a shit about – or in the case of Andrew even seem to share – the vile sexual ethics of some of the super-rich? Fun as it is to receive lectures from Ariely about what cowards we are because we’re afraid to plagiarize or make stuff up or hang around with sick motherfuckers, UD thinks it’s better to keep the focus on people who plagiarize and make stuff up and hang around with sick motherfuckers.

La Kid was with friends in Adams Morgan. Not for the first time, I texted her with instructions about what streets to avoid in order not to get shot.

… Saturday nights will be SOOOO much less exciting.

They also had a psychotic Nazi teenage son at home who went on to commit a mass shooting.

Vazquez “would not allow officers to confirm if firearms were stored properly.” If they were stored properly, Little Hitler would have trouble getting at them.

After the shooting, the police searched three homes connected with the teenagers and confiscated more than 30 guns from one of them.

In an obscene effort to avoid indictment, the Vazquez parents have released a weepy public statement. It’s incredibly important for the legal system to go after Nazi-enablers.

… on one of our old tree stumps.

Florida’s AG disagrees, and he promises a legal attack on a local development that would simply like people not to carry during big public events. Big public events bring out psychotic gunnies, and the people of Beaches Town Center don’t want to be blown away. But Florida will force them to expose themselves to armed fuckheads.

Wowsa. Should definitely be giving squatting seminars.