March 30th, 2026
‘Tiger Woods drives a car exactly how you would think a black Asian drives.’

Antonio Brown thinks of something funny to say.

*************

Brown isn’t only witty; he’s a pioneer:

Brown applied to Florida State University. His admission was denied over academic concerns.

Gotta be the first time that happened.

April 15th, 2023
‘10% of Baltimore’s population is addicted to heroin.’

Ten percent!

October 25th, 2022
His bowel was so loaded it nearly exploded / And the band played on

You learn something new every day. Who knew that serious drug addiction can constipate you to the point where your bowel can explode?

And wow the miracles of modern medicine. You’d think it’d be absolutely impossible to come back from such an event – and most don’t – but the actor Matthew Perry did.

And WOW the power of addiction. Perfectly willing to stand around constipated for ten+ days if the drugs keep flowing.

April 16th, 2022
That pesky fentanyl!

Leave it around and it just might kill your kid.

July 30th, 2021
NAH!

At one point, [the judge] questioned whether the magnitude of opioid shipments delivered to the community might trigger some legal liability.

“Is there some point at which the number would be so great that it would be unreasonable?” [he] asked.

Nah! 81 million opioid pills for a city of 91,000 reflects a heroic dedication to the well-being of its residents — and the proof is in the pudding! One in ten of them is now a full-blown addict.

The only possible verdict in this trial of pill distributors is Presidential Medal of Honor for every CEO who unselfishly opened the floodgates so that Huntington West Virginia could stand as a shining overdosed city on a hill.

June 8th, 2021
Sing it.

You who must ship a load

Must have a code that you can live by

And so protect yourself

Because the stash will be a big buy


Watch your cellphone well

Its message app might be a drug spy


You pay a monthly fee

To send your deals to the FBI

May 23rd, 2021
Shoulder Strap Shoah: The Coming American Holocaust

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s timely and urgent book reminds Americans – legally compelled not only to mask, but to wear seat belts – that we are one click away from genocide.

June 29th, 2020
“The ones with lines of patients in the parking lot, or sitting on the [office] floor drinking Mountain Dew – pretty tell-tale sign that that’s gonna be the doctor you’re gonna wanna engage with.”

From a documentary about the pride of SUNY Buffalo, Mr Fentanyl himself, John Kapoor.

January 25th, 2020
With a stop like this, you worry about the well-being of…

… the drug-sniffing dogs. Or are they like I love the smell of cocaine, THC, methamphetamine and MDMA in the morning!

August 26th, 2019
It’s the old dope peddler…

getting $572 million judgments wherever he goes.

April 3rd, 2019
Oxford University and King’s College London: Stoner Schools.

Far out.

March 7th, 2019
Samantha Bee discusses…

… the Sackler family.

My Sackler posts.

July 25th, 2018
‘Morning Edition is supported by Purdue Pharma, maker of opioids …

… and 1 800 GOT JUNK?…’

UD just heard this, as she turned on her radio at 5:30 AM, and she thought: “Not sure about that sequence…”

June 28th, 2018
After great pain, a …

formal sculpture comes.

Purdue sits ceremonious, a tomb –-

Beyond whose rich and gilded door

Lie dead and dying customers — a score

May 31st, 2018
Shoulda said it was the Ambien.

Attorney Peter Osinoff also argued that [Carmen Puliafito] suffers from a mental illness that makes him brilliant and leaves him with “immense energy,” but instills an “ugly side” in Puliafito that drove him to be infatuated with a young prostitute.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
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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.
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