January 19th, 2022
‘A POSSIBLE SEX OFFENDER DOESN’T LOOK GOOD ON A COMMEMORATIVE TEA TOWEL’

Headline of the day.

January 18th, 2022
Headline of the Day

DeSANTIS BETTING THAT REPUBLICANS

WANT A STUPIDER VERSION OF TRUMP

January 3rd, 2022
‘With No Sense of Irony or Shame, Gov. Greg Abbott Asks For FEMA’s Help to Stop COVID Spread in Texas’

Texas comes crawling back to its big bad federal daddy. How disappointing. If Abbott had any balls, he’d let the whole state cough its guts out and die.

January 2nd, 2022
Twisted twat can’t…

tweet.

December 29th, 2021
Maxwell Verdict Not Very Good News for Harvard’s Finest.

A jury found claims against Epstein/Maxwell persuasive. Maxwell will spend a lot of time in jail. Let’s see if things heat up for Alan Dershowitz.

December 6th, 2021
REALLY?? 44%???

Pew found that about 44% of nonparents ages 18 to 49 deem it “not too likely” or “not at all likely” they’ll have kids, compared to 37% who said the same in 2018.

Wowsa.

December 2nd, 2021
” ‘Smells of Death’: Anti-Vax Priests Are Dropping Like Flies Here “

“They confused the metaphysical with science.” Oh whoops.

November 22nd, 2021
Could the Waukesha mass murder event be terrorism?

It instantly made me think of the 2016 terrorist attack in Nice.

One onlooker summed it up.

“Right now, I’m just angry. It seems everywhere we turn, it’s just another violent day in the U.S.”

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Doesn’t seem to have been terrorism; just a typical domestic atrocity, in which a violent person who should be in jail is driving around killing people.

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Just makes you puke.

October 25th, 2021
A bargain at…

twice the price.

September 3rd, 2021
Echt-American Headline: BUT: Update: It turns out to be fake.

UD thanks Chas for telling her that this headline is fake, or, more precisely, based on false information. UD fell for it.

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OVERDOSES FROM ANTI-PARASITE DRUG IVERMECTIN

OVERWHELM RURAL OKLAHOMA HOSPITALS –

LEAVING GUNSHOT VICTIMS WAITING FOR EMERGENCY ROOMS

May 9th, 2021
‘He also had a hand in the design of the J Edgar Hoover Building, the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.’

Let us hope this is not the most prominent thing the media notes about Helmut Jahn, who has died in a very bad bicycle crash. He apparently ran a stop sign and was hit by two cars.

UD vividly remembers walking for the first time into the vast Eschery atrium of Jahn’s James R. Thompson building in downtown Chicago. It must have just opened. It was my first encounter with the breathtaking empty space of monumental late modernism.

January 3rd, 2021
Headline of the Day.

Trump Lashes Out at His Government for

Accurately Reporting COVID-19 Deaths

December 3rd, 2020
Pyonyang/Maine Lobstering Union Nexus

Because Communists help Communists. Because Venezuela has long had a special relationship with North Korea. Because Democrats know that our coastal defenses are weakest in the state of Maine, where the deep state replaced patriot Paul LePage with Democrat and Woman Janet Mills.

November 30th, 2020
LOL

“GEORGIA GOVERNOR, DEFYING TRUMP, SAYS HE’LL ‘FOLLOW THE LAW'”

November 19th, 2020
Another GREAT Headline

Been injured in an election? Call Rudy Giuliani now!

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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.
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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Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education

[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
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Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
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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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