They’re way proud of their Nobel winner, but he ain’t around. Wouldn‘t live in his home country if you paid him.

Pretty much no one’s around. No one under thirty. Shitty economy, and the joint’s run by a weirdo at once hyper-puritan and heavy into fuckywucky cuz the birth rate’s pathetic plus everyone’s leaving.

All very odd. Very malsain.

Harvard president Larry Summers will be known to posterity as an executor of a will left by the captain of the Lolita Express.

David Brooks need only have mentioned, in his NYT piece dismissing people interested in the Jeffrey Epstein story as stupid conspiracy theorists, that he himself attended a smallish dinner at which Epstein was present.

This, however, would have unburnished his highly burnished self-presentation as a moral exemplar.

And this U Arkansas poli sci prof has a lot of them – or so it’s claimed. It’s claimed she simply made up a whole interview with an Iranian political activist (the person making the claim is, uh, the political activist); it’s claimed she engaged in research fraud in her dissertation (Cambridge, which published it, is investigating). As head of a mideast studies unit on campus, she called for the destruction of terrorist state Israel, which the university seems to have felt fell a bit short of the sort of official statement they had in mind when they appointed her.

After a video posted of Mr. Summers teaching a class Tuesday, Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, commented online that “it’s not normal for a professor to start a class discussing how they ‘regret’ being best buddies with a child sex trafficker.”

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One of his students comments:

“It’s incredibly easy — maybe one of the easiest things in the world — to not have a long-standing relation with maybe the world’s most notorious pedophile and human trafficker,” Anna J. Guerrini ’29 said. “I think it’s disgusting that he was asking for advice from another man on how to cheat on his wife and how to best win the affection of this woman.”

Other amenities include a lower-level theater that seats nine and has upholstered walls; a main-floor fitness room with a steam room and a sauna with a Himalayan salt wall; an upstairs lounge with a coffee bar, three built-in workstations and terrace access; a wine display room with a backlit onyx wall and lounge …

A British artist is looking into suing our Border Patrol cuz some of its guys had the unbelievable gall to take a pic of themselves in front of one of his public sculptures in Chicago.

‘Davis v. Ermold, the case that SCOTUS swatted away on Monday, was always a long-shot appeal. Many Americans likely remember the petitioner, a Kentucky clerk who refused to grant a marriage license to a same-sex couple in the wake of Obergefell, citing “God’s authority.” Many may recall that she was briefly jailed in contempt of court, becoming a cause célèbre among anti-gay Republicans. But few know what happened next: One couple whom Davis discriminated against sued her for violating their civil rights, and a jury ordered her to pay $360,000 in damages for attorneys’ fees.‘

On Wednesday, in response to the “blue wave” which swept over the Mountain State’s neighbor to the east, West Virginia Sen. Chris Rose, R-Monongalia, released a statement announcing that he had “introduced a Resolution inviting Virginia and Maryland counties to join the Mountain State.” Rose referred to this resolution as “An Appeal to Heaven.”

Harvard’s conservative student magazine gets rather too excited.

LOLOLOL.

You too might find some of this amusing.

Yale has thrown her out.

Sing it!

So what the heck, you’re welcome
Glad to have you with us
Even though you’re the biggest criminal in state history
You really ought to lead Iowa’s public schools!

As Charlie Javice is led off to serve seven years in prison for defrauding JP Morgan of $175 million, UD once more asks, What is it with high-priced lawyers? Their most compelling keep her out of jail arguments in this case were

1.} Hey we’re surprised that big ol bank even noticed the piddling 175 mill she stole. They’ve got SO much money the theft of almost two hundred million is nothing, judge. Nothing!

and

2.} What, really, is the point of jailing a criminal, especially within the guidelines? “Justice” is such a broad, ambiguous, concept; if you look at the matter with fresh eyes, judge, you’ll see that nothing is ever served by incarcerating someone who has done something illegal.

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Wharton notes that Javice of course graduated from that school, which grinds out world historical crooks like nobody’s business. Read my many Wharton posts for their immense mafia.

You can’t make this shit up.

A worthy successor to the first Hangover film, in which four drunk lads steal Mike Tyson’s tiger, Hangover 4 (release date scheduled to coincide with Nicholas Sarkozy’s first day in prison) finds the foursome gleefully pinching Qaddafi’s sculpture of a gold clenched fist crushing a silver American military jet. Hijinks ensue as an enraged Qaddafi orders his pal Sarkozy to fire up the French military to get it back.