January 24th, 2023
Now It’s REALLY Getting Boring.

Zzz

January 19th, 2023
Italian-Dominated Corruption Scandal has Nothing to do with Italians, Announces Italian Prime Minister

Qatargate is about socialism, not Italians. It’s not as if Italy is particularly corrupt!

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UPDATE: From a Politico essay by Jacopo Barigazzi.

Qatargate … has a distinctly Italian flavor…

January 13th, 2023
Headline of the Day.

Idaho Republican Apologizes for Comparing Women to Farm Animals

December 27th, 2022
‘Major College Football Program Accused of Cheating’

NO. Oh dear God, NOOOOOooooooo….

December 25th, 2022
Next up, kill ’em all.

Taliban Use Water Cannon

On Women Protesting Education Order

in Afghanistan

December 24th, 2022
True Grit.

Afghan Taliban Use Barbed Wire Fence

and Armed Guards to Keep Women Out of Universities

October 27th, 2022
‘HERSCHEL WALKER CALLS IT UNFAIR TO EXPECT A MAN TO REMEMBER EVERY ABORTION HE HAS PAID FOR’

Best headline so far in the One Abortion Two Abortions Three Abortions Four / Five Abortions Six Abortions Seven Abortions More scandal.

August 22nd, 2022
‘GOP Candidate Backtracks after Calling for Merrick Garland to be Executed’

Headline of the day.

July 25th, 2022
Headline, New Yorker.

Hawley Concerned That Being a Coward

Is Overshadowing His Work as a Fascist

July 7th, 2022
In the long history of humanity’s struggle against clueless, mulish alpha males…

… we can notch one little victory.

That only leaves Donald Trump (but – ne quittez pas! we’re def. working on it), Jerry Jones (who loves his coffee so strong it’ll blast the top of your head off), the world’s current trove of tinpot dictators (I already said Trump – who, though out of office, remains a terrible threat to humanity – I mean all the other guys), V. Putin, etc etc etc.

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Though UD will admit to having had a soft spot for Boris. His tousled oddness carries with it a Gilbert and Sullivan Oscar Wilde PG Woodhouse Lord Peter Wimsey something that makes her heart go pitapat.

June 22nd, 2022
“Even Fox News’ Conservative Analysts Say Jan. 6 Hearings Prove Trump’s ‘Unfitness’ for Presidency”

Getting there.

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Getting where? To the final speech of Ceausescu, in this our own great county, at an enormous Donald Trump rally.

June 1st, 2022
lol

Capitol Rioter Turned in by Ex

After He Called Her ‘a Moron

Pleads Guilty

May 21st, 2022
Headline of the Day

NASA has Identified ‘Something Weird’

Happening to the Universe

May 14th, 2022
‘Inflation will be hard to control if it “gets out of hand”: Harvard economist’

Headline of the day.

January 20th, 2022
‘Trump Blasts Biden for Failing to Overthrow U.S. Government in His First Year’

Headline of the day.

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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.
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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.
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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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[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
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University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
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