… for whom lying about consensual sex is way impeachable, but bribing an ally desperate for military aid in a hot war is no way impeachable, UD thought she’d share this limerick she wrote years ago about Turley.
Turley is an avid defender of polygamists.
A colleague of UD‘s named Turley
Wants one boy to have many girlies.
“My thing on polygamy
Makes UD quite sick of me,
And even my wife has turned surly.”
My answer to Mr. Bloom, L.?
I'm fine, and am nowhere near hell.
My answer to this?
I'll stick with the Swiss.
The weather in Zurich is swell.
The way-Catholic Cardinal Ritter Is standing knee-deep in the shitter. But what can they do? That fucking tattoo. At least you can't call the team quitters.
A naughty young man from Fuzhou
Thought China should equally know
Our every analysis
Regarding catalysis.
And now off to prison he’ll go.
The adventures of Leniency Alec
Are now looking downright vandalic:
From Epstein’s erections
To child-sex projections
The theme’s become totally phallic.
You can’t have a sip of Campari.
It’s hotter than ten Kalaharis.
So tell us Michel.
I mean, what the hell?
Why did FIFA select the Qataris?
Listen up, cuz I’m gonna be brief:
Who wrote the thing, Sontag or Rieff?
Conservative; Sorelist —
Who wrote Mind of Moralist?
Was someone around here a thief?
Our school of pharma doth deplore
The racketeering John Kapoor.
We’ve ordered a slurry
Cuz we’re in a hurry
To sandblast his name from the door.
At drug firms there’s truly a science
To being the Chief of Compliance:
A grasp geographic
Of best towns to traffic
Plus conspiracy, greed, and connivance.
Our period’s Decadent, Late.
Provenance: The Sackler Estate.
“But to pay for our Braques
With this family’s smahck
Is one step too far for the Tate.”
Now finds himself somewhat in crisis:
‘I chopped no one’s head!
I made not one man dead!
Get to know me – I’m really the nicest.’
U Buffalo’s generous donor
Gives each of his salesmen a boner.
One dancer exotic
For every narcotic
That you sell for the company’s owner.
Ol’ Baylor grad Judge Ralphie Strother
Frees one Baylor boy after another.
“Hell them thangs ain’t rapes.
They jest got into some scrapes.
In Waco you look after yer brother.”
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And good lord! It’s hard to keep up with all the Baylor raping. Here’s a handy timeline, just to get you started.
Grijalva attacks Ryan Zinke
Who hits back with G.’s problem with drinky.
Each man is a schlump
In the era of Trump;
It’s hard to say which is more stinky.
For Psycho, you want Tony Perkins;
For Chopin, select Rudolf Serkin.
But do not approach
As your next football coach
The problem from hell, D.J. Durkin.
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.
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[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
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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.
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Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
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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...
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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. ...
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I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
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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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