September 11th, 2024
‘Asked about his ideas for healthcare for Americans, he replied with: “I have concepts of a plan.”’

SING IT.

Concepts of a plan
Concepts of a plan
Into debate we’re thrown
Into a flop full-blown
Like a Haitian-eaten dog
Like a madman monologue
Concepts of a plan

There’s Kamala on the road
My brain is squirmin’ like a toad
Took a long holiday
All my concepts went astray
If you give this bitch a ride
Sweet Jesus you will die
Concepts of a plan

MAGA gotta love your man
MAGA gotta love your man
Concepts of a plan!
I know you understand!
My world on you depends
Our greatness never ends
Gotta love your man, yeah

September 11th, 2024
“There’s nothing worse than a pissed bigot, on stage with a woman he can’t control.”

Michael Steele.

September 11th, 2024
“You take a guy like Esper, he was no good I fired him, so he writes a book. Another one writes a book, because with me they can write a book with nobody else can

they.”

September 11th, 2024
“Perhaps men are too emotional to be President,” said Justin Wolfers, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan.

Trump’s team has asked for a box of hankies at the next debate.

September 10th, 2024
“I’ve seen people on television!”

“They’re eating the dogs!” he said. “The people that came in — they’re eating the cats!”

Ms. Harris threw her head back. She clasped her hands. Mr. Muir refuted the claims as Mr. Trump glowered.

“I’ve seen people on television!” he protested. “People on television say, ‘My dog was taken and used for food!’”

Ms. Harris shook her head, projecting the deep concern of a disappointed relative.

September 10th, 2024
In response to Taylor Swift’s post-debate Kamala Harris endorsement, the Trump/Vance team excitedly shares mother-of-nineteen Michelle Duggar’s endorsement.

‘Praise the Lord! Every time President Trump mentioned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is working every day to keep Hungarian young women out of college and in the bedroom, I knew that Trump and especially Vance mean it when they say NO MORE CHILDLESS LADIES. All praise the killers of Roe v Wade!!! I enthusiastically endorse the Republican ticket.

September 9th, 2024
“Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials.”

FROM THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN EASTMAN

SUBJECT: DONOR #9,180,454: MARGARET SOLTAN, AKA Margaret Rapp, AKA Margaret Rapoport

EXHIBIT A:

EXHIBIT B see attached donation records in the amount of $500

Notes: As Margaret Rapp, daughter of CAREER FEDERAL SCIENTIST Herbert J Rapp born CHAIM RAPOPORT (source: Tucker Carlson), she performed at George McGovern candidate concert, Garrett Park, MD, August 1972. Married to Karol Edward Soltan, paid agent of G. Soros as codirector of Summer School in Political Science, Warsaw, Poland (mid ‘nineties), and uncle of Andrzej Soltan, currently employed in Warsaw, Poland as language instructor to Ukrainian refugees.

September 9th, 2024
Liz Cheney: “This is my diplomatic way of…

… saying it: They’re misogynistic pigs.

September 7th, 2024
Sing it.

Tucker has only got one ball,
Donald has two but very small,
JD’s are just a weewee
But poor old Hawley ain’t bally at all.

September 4th, 2024
I’m worried about the placement of those fingers.

They are hovering dangerously close to this woman’s naughty bits. And masturbation, like pornography, is non-procreative and non-mutual, and therefore very bad, as this woman’s writings – lustily endorsed by our perhaps next vice-president – make clear.

“Pornography is … increasingly associated with relationship troubles, including greater divorce risks — interestingly, especially if married women watch it.” 

Now I want you to banish from your thoughts entirely the already famous first scene of Nicole Kidman’s new film Babygirl because this will not do at all, as it features a married woman who not only prefers porn, but prefers BDSM porn, to the tender procreative uh… arms of her husband. Look away!

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

Negative capability, Keats tells us, involves the ability to keep two contradictory thoughts in your mind at the same time. In this particular case, we must make mental room for a president who seeks out, fucks, and pays porn stars (but UD, says the anti-pornster, this is fine because he’s not a married woman), and a vice president heavily excited by people who want to outlaw porn.

September 3rd, 2024
‘Over the weekend, Donald Trump did a long, bizarre Fox News interview, flatly declaring he had a “right” to interfere in the last presidential election. He also mused that “God” may have chosen Trump to fix our “sick” country,” and seethed about an “enemy within” that’s out to get him.’

Folie à moitié du pays.

August 31st, 2024
Abortionist Contortionist

Trump Contorts Himself on Abortion in Search of Political Gain

August 29th, 2024
The Trump Team: Yesterday, a Military Cemetery…

… today, an ice skating rink.

August 29th, 2024
“US Army Issues Rare Statement Defending Arlington Employee ‘Unfairly Attacked’ By Trump Team”

The headlines keep coming for the Trigger Temper Trumpers.

UD suggests the following response: “Yeah we shoved ’em. But we didn’t shoot ’em. Cry babies! They can go to hell.”

August 29th, 2024
“She can go to hell.”

WHY are Vance and Trump so irritable all the time?

Likeliest answer: They have too many children.

The Surgeon General has just issued an advisory.

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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.
More magazine, Canada

If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
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