One of America’s most violent cities. A motorcycle club. Open all night. What could go wrong?
One of America’s most violent cities. A motorcycle club. Open all night. What could go wrong?
‘Judge Tosses Trump’s $15B Defamation Suit Against New York Times‘
‘The crisis of suicides among older adults is inextricably linked with guns. Older Americans use a gun in a suicide attempt significantly more often than younger people. And guns are the most lethal method of attempting suicide.‘
It doesn’t have the force of law, but indicates where things may be headed.
… in their lawsuit against the fuckwit who keeps insisting she’s a man.
UD‘s touched by their naivete. Their nemesis is from pre-science. She’s ante-antediluvian. She’s farther gone than Robert Kennedy Jr.
La France is of course the great country of rationalists — Descartes etc etc etc etc. — and it would never occur to people like the Macrons that high-profile pundits in any nation would actually have no knowledge of logic, empiricism, enlightenment, rationality, objectivity… UD will admit that it also took her a long time to accept this. Living in the modern world, it is close to impossible to believe that millions of people, especially in an advanced setting, have never encountered scientific method. But it is quite true.
UD wishes the Macrons luck in their defamation lawsuit.
And a yoga studio on the first floor, for the contemplation of non-attachment.
UD loves found poetry, and this decasyllabic morsel, describing my magnolia, and confirming what I’ve noticed – that it’s a “favorite food of catbirds” – is a perfect example.
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Haiku?
Seed pod of sweet-bay
Magnolia tree, trembling.
Not wind. A cat bird.
‘It is a thing of pride and recognition … [G]irls who are mutilated have become women.‘
Or, you know, babies who are mutilated have become corpses.
The Holocaust was somewhere in her have mercy keep me outta jail letter too; plus, even though she did effing EVERYTHING she could think of not to get caught, it turns out she’s full of shame despair and general poignancy when she reflecteth upon her Madoffian crimelife.
Give it a read – Ms Javice basically gets as close as you can get to saying YOU CAN’T JAIL ME I’M A WOMAN!!! — a remarkable sentiment for a person who – until JP Morgan figured out she robbed them of $175 million – was an icon of the tough as nails young financial genius. My grannies are dying! I wanna baby!
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How did I manage to miss this chick earlier?
‘But, How Will She Teach Pilates in an Ankle Monitor?‘
‘While permitless carrying may have some effect on deterring offences like robberies, it is inadequate in the face of grievance and politically driven violence, said Brandon del Pozo, an assistant professor of medicine and health policy at Brown University.
“The deterrence effect of concealed carry only applies to rational actors. And you get to a point in political extremism where you’re not dealing with rational people,” he said...
[C]ities and states where many residents are armed in public can fail to account for the large presence of concealed guns and to plan to provide an accompanying level of screening.
“In places like Utah where there’s going to be a lot of guns in circulation, you have to decide when you’re going to carve out spaces where people are screened for guns,” [del Pozo] added.
“And if you’re a small police department, it’s hard to secure something outdoors. But if you’re coming to a provocative political rally, you need to be screened.”’
Women are the people
They’re the people that people
Come out of…
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