‘Perhaps the Nazi Tattoo Was a Clue’
‘Perhaps the Nazi Tattoo Was a Clue’
Wherever you stand on the current attack, recall Hitchens’ words about the scourge of theocracy.
[A]ny government that imagines it has a divine warrant will perforce deal with its critics as if they were profane and thus illegitimate by definition…
Reminds me of Japan’s wartime soft theocracy, which mired them in a bloodbath despite the voices of many rational and humane leaders there who argued for surrender. Only by nudging the country’s all-powerful, silent divinity to speak up was Japan able to save itself from possible extinction.
Nice example of ambiguity.
UD has zero interest in his motives, but Minnesota’s governor lazily presided over a fraud-ridden state, and he has certainly done the right thing by dropping out of the next election.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-fraud-schemes-what-we-know
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“A really bad thing happened, and it demonstrated a real failure of public management that has to be addressed. And the scale of it was just incredible,” said Harold Pollack, a social sciences professor at the University of Chicago and longtime defender of safety net programs. “The Trump people are going to take this thing and they’re going to run with it so aggressively, it becomes a little bit easier for us to overlook the important substance here.”
He also killed multiple people and then, aware the FBI was close, killed himself in a secret location. It seems likely he killed (and Valente killed) because both were
They have things in common with Phil Hartman’s 1998 death at the hands of his angry, substance-abusing wife. An argument apparently preceded it; he was talking about divorce. A very public argument preceded the Reiner patricide/matricide. Hartman’s wife killed him while he slept in their bed; Nick Reiner did the same. She killed herself after killing Hartman (the Reiner son is on suicide watch). Jealousy was a huge issue in both cases; both killers wanted the entertainment success other family members achieved. Both had mental health problems.
I’d say that massive drug intake was what separated maybe physically abusing people from being unhinged enough to shoot and stab them.
It’s the fourteenth, and they keep on coming.
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Password to Louvre’s Video Surveillance System was ‘Louvre’, According to Employee
Republican Mike Lawler plugs ‘lying sack of shit’ Andrew Cuomo for NYC mayor — as ‘lesser of two evils’ over Mamdani
… but close.
Visiting Harvard Law prof was firing a pellet gun at rats, not the Brookline temple he was standing outside [of] at the start of Yom Kippur, police say
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Wow. Details at once disturbing and hilarious.
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He shot at and shattered a car window!
So… to get serious for a moment. There are a number of sad possible explanations.
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OTOH: A rifle-packing Harvard prof could go far toward bridging the cultural gap between the Trump administration and that school.
Tyler Robinson, resident of Utah (death penalty? yes), seems to be the dude. “A family member saw the photos of the suspect and turned him into police,” says here. 22 years old.
Apparently his father (a pastor? not all of this information is confirmed) turned him in. He seems to have won a big fancy scholarship to Utah State University a few years ago.
‘Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down’
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.
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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...
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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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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
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Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
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[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
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If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
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