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
March 25th, 2013 at 12:02PM
For readers seeking a more aggressive lopping experience, I recommend the Alligator:
http://www.blackanddecker.com/outdoor/LP1000.aspx. It’s a lopper with a mini-chainsaw.
Makes short work of the larger limbs after you’ve lopped off the small branches the traditional manual way, leading to a satisfying conclusion of the total lopping exercise.
March 27th, 2013 at 11:11AM
Polish Peter: Scary.
March 27th, 2013 at 7:16PM
Actually, I have one of these, and it’s one of the best tools I’ve ever bought. We lose a lot of branches, sometimes whole trees, at the Polish Peter house. First we get out the manual loppers, either the bypass or the anvil type. We have one of each, both over 40 years old. They handle the branches we put out by the curb. But thick branches for firewood require a saw. We could use the 60-year-old bow saw that my father already had when I was a child, but for hardwood up to about 4 inches, nothing beats the Alligator. It’s especially good for cutting a lot of short pieces to use in a fire pit, or chopping up pickets from a fallen-down fence. Beyond that, it’s time for the chainsaw, then the wedges and sledgehammer. Family fun for all.
March 27th, 2013 at 7:59PM
Polish Peter: Do you do your own blade sharpening? I’m wondering how to sharpen various blades (lopper, manual mower, etc.) – someone told me you can go to Home Depot?
March 27th, 2013 at 8:29PM
UD: I have a grinding wheel that I use for sharpening power mower blades, but I’ve not tried sharpening a chain saw blade using a special file. I was going to take mine in for an overhaul to a local garden supply place that does such work. I haven’t tried sharpening my lopper blades either, although they probably would work a lot better if I did. The anvil lopper would benefit from sharpening because it now crushes more than cuts cleanly as it used to, but the bypass lopper doesn’t seem to need it yet, probably because it didn’t get used as much during its first three decades. I’d think that someone who sharpens scissors could handle loppers. On a manual mower, I think a file is needed and a good touch for the curving edge.