… fascist.
Big ol’ rap sheet, just a really dangerous person, and he has a kid who’s allowed to live with him? He got ten years in 2016 for malicious wounding etc etc, and he’s not in jail? Thinks it’s funny to put a loaded gun in his six year old kid’s school backpack? Why does this convicted felon have guns?
Lemme tell you. It’s hard enough for gun-soaked Americans to protect themselves from quiet schizy little nobodies who decide to shoot up schools; shouldn’t it be easier for us to defend ourselves from shriekingly rampant criminals among us? Easier to defend innocent children from them? WTF.
Another day, another heaping helping of disaster for Arizona’s reigning queen of the Make America Great Again movement.
When this election is over, Republicans really should begin asking themselves when and if they ever want to win again — because if it wasn’t clear after already losing two Senate seats and every key statewide office, it’s about to become undeniably clear to all but the fiercest MAGA diehards.
UD‘s old friend has been immensely honored in Poland, and here’s the latest thing!
He was a quiet gentle giant of a man, engrossed in his painting, in love with his wife, and, in his off time, busy maintaining his one hundred upstate NY acres, and the beautiful house/pond at their center. A lover of the night sky (like UD), he built himself an observatory. He and Magda drove around most weekends finding the quirky Americana that filled the house. They often had guests (not in the winter!), many of them famous Polish artists, and Magda cooked everyone spectacular meals, topped off with dusky strolls through the woods.
Then we’d all sit on the big front porch and gaze at the pond Fangor made until we started falling asleep.
“About damn time,” tweeted former Senate staffer Jim Manley.
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[A]ttorney Philip T. Kingston wrote: “Do you know how hard it is to get disbarred?”
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“You lie and make false statements in court to try and overturn ONE lousy election, and suddenly people are all mad about it,” [wrote] civil attorney Daniel Aguilar.
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If you’re in a hurry to get your pain pills and you pull your car in front of other people waiting in the pharmacy drive-through and the people in one of the cars object to what you have done, you can brandish your loaded gun right in their faces as they approach your car window! That’ll shut em up. HAHAHAHAHA
‘Kinda tricky and gross cuz lots of glass and blood at the scene plus two messed up and I’m pretty sure dead bodies but main thing is FREE GUN IN ONE OF THE CARS.’
“While this incident occurred on a school campus, it was not directly related to Skyridge Middle School activities,” officials wrote in a press release Wednesday.
Whew. I can’t stand middle schools where 11 year olds brandishing guns is part of official school activities.
Trump’s man in NC continues to impress.
“If the cops wanted to shoot an elderly black man they should have shot Al Sharpton … Closing his mouth would do this Nation good.”
“Obama IS a blackface step-in fectch-it [sic] for liberal white America.”
… “It’s Oprah the wicked witch, leading the way to sexing up the children!”

I mean, it’s natural. A spider (see it in the middle at the top?) somehow fashioned a web — from my nearby dogwood? from the electrical wires? — seemingly in midair.
Should the GOP—at either federal or state levels—play a stronger role in primaries to prevent candidates like Christine O’Donnell Roy Moore Blake Masters Herschel Walker Dr. Oz Mark Robinson from being nominated? The GOP base clearly wants crazy…
If a mass shooting happens in the dead of a Saturday night and America has forgotten about it by the time Sunday’s 1 p.m. NFL games kick off, did it make a sound?
Gotta hand it to places like Natrona County WY, where they rustle up many more suicides a year than almost anyplace else in this country, but where the sacred word GUN never crosses their lips. “Our statistics in this county are worse than what you’ve heard,” says a commissioner and whoo boy that’s quite a number but Natronites have guns coming out their wazoo and the more guns the more suicide. Get it? Is this too difficult a concept? The Suicide Belt is about gun belts. The gunniest states have the suicidiest citizens. Reduce suicide by reducing or temporarily removing or properly locking up GUNS.
But no. In this latest pile of horseshit about it, you got politically correct weenies brought to the county to talk about how the words “commit” and “suicide” are no-nos and everything will be better when we all start saying kill himself instead. Weawy?
Here’s more pointless crap from a local pol:
“It’s very frustrating, and I don’t know where else to go with that. I want to continue to talk about it. There are people fighting, people working and it’s something that we are talking about in our field and it is a very, very difficult situation and it’s a crisis that we have. Anyway it’s just kind of on my heart right now.”
Blahblah. What’s on people’s hearts is the carbon steel barrel of a Glock, fella, and by the way you sound like a girl.
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