Of all our political pantos
The strangest by far is George Santos.
Not one claim is true;
Even says he’s a Jew!
“Oh and plus I made up Esperanto.”
Of all our political pantos
The strangest by far is George Santos.
Not one claim is true;
Even says he’s a Jew!
“Oh and plus I made up Esperanto.”
A young politician named Herschel
Has a brain that is all but inertial
His night and day REMs
Made it easy for DEMs
To run some amazing commercials
We interrupt this blog for a commercial
About that ol’ abortion-lover Herschel:
First he bangs ’em like a champ
Next it’s forceps and a clamp —
For Georgia, this is nothing controversial.
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Andrew Sullivan:
‘[T]he Senate candidacy of one Herschel Walker… [W]ords fail. No magical realist fiction writer could come up with something so sickeningly absurd.
… This man is running for the Senate for one of our major political parties. Not even the House. The Senate. He’s clearly incapable of understanding even a scintilla of what his job would entail, and manifestly incapable of doing it.
… Walker stalked, harassed and threatened to murder his ex-wife, threats that were enough for a judge to grant her a protective order in 2005. She had divorced him four years earlier, citing “physically abusive and extremely threatening behavior.” At one point, he put a gun to her head and said “I’m going to blow your fucking brains out.” This week, his son, Christian, claimed that he and his mother had to move six times in six months to escape his threats of violence.
… [A] man [who] makes the problem of fatherlessness a central part of his campaign … turns out to be entirely AWOL in the lives of his own four children — from four different mothers, three of whom he only publicly acknowledged after the press discovered them… In the words of his own son this week: “Family values, people? He has four kids, four different women, wasn’t in the house raising one of them. He was out having sex with other women.”
… So here we have a celebrity candidate with no political experience, neither eloquent nor honest, who abandoned his kids, threatened to kill his ex-wife, and has serious mental health problems … who may hold the balance of the Senate in his hands. That’s what the GOP now is. And if he actually paid for an abortion, i.e. in the view of sincere evangelicals, paid for the murder of an innocent child?’
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And it’s… THE JERRY SPRINGER SHOW!!!!!
A Missouri psychotic named Greitens
Has watched as his Senate race tightens
He threatens with guns
And Republican voters are frightened
A vote for Gov Gregory Abbott
Endangers your vibrator rabbit
Your misery will grow
Vote Beto! and keep to your habit
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Really – the race is as tight as a Kegel exercise. Now’s the time to give Beto money.
Benson failed to detect on John Eastman
Any obvious Mark of the Beastman.
‘It was only much later
He came out as a traitor!
We ask you to leave us in peace, man.’
Though Mother Nature surely gains
When you grow trees on your remains
I find it more moral
To mix in with coral
For all of the fish it sustains
A tenured Penn lawyer named Wax
Has problems with Asians and blacks
Though everyone’s through
With her vile racist spew
The school cannot give her the axe
She's Fox News's new shogun She shouts out her slogans With every vile breath Their Angel of Death Choke on her name: Lara Logan
As a big fancy Reb yada yada I declare you persona non grata. Dare not darken the door Of my prayer room no more Or I'll curse you forever to Yahweh.
The stinkiest form of excreta
Is Ohio’s fair son, Mark Pukita.
When asked for his views
He replies “Fuck the Jews.”
Has the brain of a sub. trilobita.
Oxford is loath to look closely
At the money it took from Max Mosely.
“Why should we eschew?
Oh – that business with Jews.
All rumor and poppycock, mostly.”
The animal pen which you failed to braze
Let loose in the neighborhood utter amaze:
A five-equine zeal!
It seems so unreal.
But there it stands, striped and agraze.
I think it un-Christian to smirk
At the virulent Cardinal Burke.
But it wouldn’t be wrong
To quote Zappa’s old song:
“Jesus thinks you’re a jerk.”
The one vote against was from Hawley
Who made his white power fans jolly:
‘He’ll stem the invasions
From boatloads of Asians
And kill this “democracy” folly.’
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