October 24th, 2023
“Do your worst. I’m not intimidated. I won’t back down. My mission is Truth, my God is the Lord Jesus Christ, and my client is the President of the United States.”

Jenna backs down.

My Jenna posts.

October 24th, 2023
What a sweetie! A true ambassador for the American way of life.

[State Sen. Jeff] Wilson was arrested and charged with unlicensed possession of a firearm in Hong Kong on October 21, 2023, after being found with a revolver at the Hong Kong International Airport. The gun is legally licensed in Washington State, but not in Hong Kong. According to Wilson, he discovered the unloaded firearm in his luggage in his carry-on luggage mid-flight. He alerted airport authorities and was subsequently arrested. After his initial court hearing, Wilson and his family had verbal exchanges with reporters at the courthouse, leading to police mediation. Wilson was said to have verbally abused the reporters and asked them to delete any photos taken outside of the courthouse.  He was ordered to surrender his travel documents and not to leave Hong Kong until his next court date.

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Here’s hoping his next court date is some time in 2028.

October 24th, 2023
‘Er liebt mich, er liebt mich nicht…

… But the dictator who loves me the most is… Orban of Turkey!

October 23rd, 2023
As if UD’s high school in Bethesda…

… is any exception.

October 23rd, 2023
Jest a little feller with a big AR…
Shot that motherfucker into one long line o' cars
Shot it at the Waffle House Decatur Alabam
Got pissed with his buddy and - bang bang bang shazam
Barely outta short pants but God Bless the USA
Packs a AR-15 when he goes out to play

October 22nd, 2023
View from UD’s open front door…

… in mid-October late afternoon sunlight.

October 22nd, 2023
Restaurant owner…

… aborts his own business.

October 22nd, 2023
Wow. I could see refusing to …

enter Taco Bell…

October 22nd, 2023
Mr UD, yesterday, Staunton Virginia, just after…

… it stopped raining and the sun came out.

October 22nd, 2023
Nuremberg Envy

Note empty stadium.

Hitler sold far more tickets.

October 21st, 2023
UD’s upcoming talk …

… at Georgetown Library.

More info.

October 20th, 2023
Off to…

Staunton Va with buddies for a Shakespeare play, dinner, and long walks. Ne quittez pas.

October 19th, 2023
‘[H]ard-right members and their ideological allies didn’t succeed in their efforts to install one of their own as second in line for the presidency, but that doesn’t mean they will give up on their radical goal of undermining the processes of legislation by consensus for which Congress was designed.’

Yes. La lutte continue.

October 19th, 2023
‘Congressman Jim Jordan, the hardline Ohio Republican, backed down on Thursday from his pledge to force a third vote on his bid to become the next speaker of the House…’

Even Jim Jordan considers Jim Jordan too disgusting to be speaker.

October 18th, 2023
Visit Beautiful Albuquerque

Benjamin Baker, a former police officer who is now policy adviser on public safety to the governor, says the crisis is exemplified by a scene he witnessed in an Albuquerque park in July.

“I had my kid here for football practice — he’s 12,” Baker says. “And people decided to come have a rolling gun-and-stabbing battle within feet of where he was practicing. And it caused a person to be shot. And the ages of those folks were 13, 14 and 15.”

Baker says guns have long been part of everyday life in this Western city, but the nature of the local gun culture is different. He says people now see guns not so much as a tool, but as something “sexy.” And they seem more likely to fire them in anger.

“That should have been a fist fight! At worst!” Baker says of the teenagers in the park. “I cannot recall a time where things were as violent and as bad, and particularly how young the age of the perpetrators has become.”

[One policeman] guesses half the cars in Albuquerque traffic now contain guns, some of which wind up in the hands of felons or children.

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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.
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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.
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It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
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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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