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.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
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.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
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
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. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
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.
Notes of a Neophyte
February 6th, 2011 at 11:21PM
“Generator consortiums”…wow!
Some Japanese company…maybe Honda…is selling very quiet generators intended not for backup, but for regular power generation. They run off natural gas and also provide capture of waste heat that can be used for house heating and/or water heating. I don’t think they’re big enough to run air conditioning, electric stoves, etc for a house of any size, but enough to keep the lights on and to power the fans and controls for the heating system.
February 6th, 2011 at 11:36PM
Yeah, here it is…very quiet Honda generator with heat recovery, packaged in a variety of ways for home use. Might be worth checking it out–or maybe getting the master distributorship for Garrett Park!
February 7th, 2011 at 7:55AM
My neighborhood was leveled by a Category 4 tornado, and we had power back in 12 hours. Praise the lord for underground power lines!
February 7th, 2011 at 8:14AM
Dave: Yes. Everything’s above-ground in old villages like Garrett Park.
February 7th, 2011 at 8:26AM
Mediocrevilleburgton is full of 60-100+ year old trees chewed to bits by carpenter ants and termites. The aftermath of wind storms and ice storms is not pretty. They should probably bundle a chain saw and wood chipper with every house sold.
February 7th, 2011 at 9:22AM
tp: I’ve taken out my hatchet and am about to enter Stage Two of the limb-removal process (the town is doing our front yard; we have to do side and back): Breaking up the biggest limbs and carting stuff away.
February 7th, 2011 at 12:36PM
Where I live, everybody has a backup generator. You can get them large enough to power your whole house, and if you have natural gas in your area, they can indeed be powered that way. They can also run off diesel and gasoline. “Quiet” is a relative term — they are loud, but some have mufflers and are not as loud as others. But when your power goes, you don’t really mind the noise if, in exchange, you can hunker down with lights, fridge, well pump, microwave, and even water heater. If your home is heated by a heat pump, that puts a kink in things. But if you heat with oil or gas, you will be in great shape. My house is 1750 square feet. I found a gasoline generator that will power my whole home for under $1000, with free delivery. It costs a bit more to get the electrician to hook the thing up to your power panel, but not much.
February 8th, 2011 at 8:29AM
Get yourself down to the big box hardware store and treat yourself to a chainsaw, UD. You won’t believe how much easier it is.
I am tempted by the backup generator, Erin, especially since I have a gas line within ten feet of where the generator would go. Gilligan’s bad experience with its super-duper mega-million campus backup generator has made me gun-shy, though. This technological marvel has never worked as advertised. In fact, they don’t even bother to try to use it any more when our power goes out.
February 9th, 2011 at 12:46PM
tp: Can’t speak for Gilligan… but I do know my folks have had a 10kw diesel Honda generator for the past ten years, and it has seen them through many a multi-day power outage. For home back-up, you’re looking at around 10kw, and an outlay of somewhere between $1000 – $5000, depending on brand and fuel type. They pay for themselves and then some if you have to use them — but of course, you hope never to have to use it.
Agreed about the chainsaw! Added benefit, for ladies, of being a great upper body workout.