Sec’y Megadeth says he’ll try again, maybe with Amb. Guilfoyle, once her case works its way through the courts.
Sec’y Megadeth says he’ll try again, maybe with Amb. Guilfoyle, once her case works its way through the courts.
… tragedy.
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KIMBERLEA:
Tell me then, Don Junior. Where can I go now? Tell me! Shall I go back to Fox News? Or shall I go to some other poor
wretched posting overseas? To exile? [Shakes her head bitterly.]. Oh, I can just imagine how well they
will receive me!
Because, you see, Donnie, the truth falls like this: because of you, I have become a most hated
woman! Hated by both my own folk in my own country and by the Athenians!
CHORUS: [To each other:]
Friend against friend! An anger most implacable!
KIMBERLEA:
Hateful, miserable man! And words defy my tongue to put together insult worthy enough of your father!
You dare fire me, Trump! You! You, a man most hated by all the
generations of mortals and immortals alike – and by me!
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Let me tell you, Donnie, let me remind you, what I have done for you.
I journeyed to Galen of Pergamum for plastic surgery.
I wore a tight red dress and bellowed forth like the Brazen Bull
My love for your father.
You’ve broken all oaths, old and new, and you know it!
Oh Zeus!
Ain’t gonna be any White House news coverage of The Greatest President in the History of Carbon-Based Life Forms.
Peter Baker explains:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/21/business/trump-white-house-cnn-politico-msnow
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Wow. The news keeps coming. The North Korean News Agency has announced it will step into the breach. Can’t wait!
… the trustees of the Kennedy Center have transformed it into a facsimile of that state.
To honor WV’s most notable accomplishment — it’s the only US state with a smaller population today than it had in the mid-twentieth century — the trustees have completely emptied the KC of people, except for the board, which will itself disappear once they shut it down.
The derelict status of WV’s most famous county – McDowell – is featured in the ongoing physical collapse of the KC structure.
Finally, the trustees reportedly intend to allow the empty building to be overrun by addicts, a striking evocation of WV’s position at the forefront of American opioid deaths.
And there goes the lapdog owners vote.
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”[T]he court sends the blunt message that Trump should not expect SCOTUS to rubber-stamp all of his expansions of executive power, no matter how much political pressure he puts on the justices.”
‘With respect, Mr President, Judge Leon is a Republican, Federalist Society jurist – the complete opposite of Raskin. Very Catholic education and background. Impeccable conservative credentials. You and Hegseth seem to have made Leon angry by trying to destroy the life of one of America’s most decorated military heroes. Maybe let it go?’
… fuck up. They tried to invite only their friends to their party, but everybody decided to stay home. LOL.
See? What’s your problem? They deleted it.
Now I’m worried about that ten billion dollar lawsuit of his against the IRS.
Pirandello’s famous title needs only a little tweaking to cover the current crisis at the Kennedy Center. An absurdist wind be a-blowin’ from that riverside, Georgetown-adjacent, wedding cake/airport terminal (architectural observers have not been kind to the building) as performers and institutions flee, leaving a Beckettian wilderness.
Surely the first authentically post-name-change programming should be John Cage’s 4’33” – a work devoid of controversial content. Beckett’s own Endgame should be next, evoking a landscape where botheration about things like gender is rather beside the point. The beauty of these two masterpieces – and nihilistic works like them – is that they fairly demand little to no attendance, so that the collapse of the Center’s audience base will seem apposite rather than embarrassing.
… Opry will move in to take its place.
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The authority of the board to overrule Congress and rename the center is disputed, and The [NY] Times has continued to refer to its legal name.
Ex-Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia
Appears to be rather a Nazia
Although not Trump's first
And far from his worst
For his loss we can only say grazia
‘Judge Tosses Trump’s $15B Defamation Suit Against New York Times‘
His friend Trump has venous insufficiency. Epstein himself had … call it penous insufficiency. He was unable – or the good Lord didn’t grant him enough time – to eternalize his erection, to unbound his boner, to superannuate his stiffy.
Age/death caught up with both men; yet Epstein now enjoys the immortality he so passionately sought!
UD thought his 2019 suicide was the end of his Kafkan run, but she was very very wrong. He’s the talk of the town, the thing the Dems think will bring the prez down, the thing that will turn Trump’s smile to a frown.
Color UD amazed. Everyone knew Trump was a sexual degenerate when they voted for him. UD doesn’t understand why he needs to care about late-entry evidence. I’m watching the whole thing with bafflement.
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.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte