‘Manufacturing could become a strong element of Wyoming’s economy, complimenting energy, agriculture and other sectors.‘
Economic inequality has reached a staggering milestone in Silicon Valley: just nine households hold 15% of the region’s wealth, according to new research from San Jose State University. A mere 0.1% of residents hold 71% of the tech hub’s wealth.
He got so desperate that he gave it to the … American Cancer Society. The idea is that they sell it and pocket the money – tens of millions, if there’s any justice in the world – for their good works.
But no one wants what is now the ACS’s house, a vast metastasized monument to greed and contempt.
No one has lived there for years.
And as the years go by, the ACS has attempted to solve its problem (taxes, upkeep, security?) through surgery. It has cut and cut and cut and cut the asking price for this diseased thing.
Today they did more cutting. It’s all the way down to $25 million.
Buddy, you spend your life telling everyone God Loves Guns.
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‘The Bible says in Romans 8:18, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
I hope that the Adams take comfort in that verse. I hope they can one day look forward to their reunion with their son.‘
East Carolina U football players aren’t afraid to get up real early in the morning and get stuff done! Neighbors complained though and the players were arrested.
Two went quietly, while one hid in the house, hoping cops wouldn’t notice.
Their mug shots reveal a complex melange of emotions.

#1: KILL YOU FUCKERS
#2: Shitting my pants
#3: Mom and Dad are on their way to bond me out
Great headline in Kentucky Lantern, which goes on to detail that state’s fierce commitment to its flag.

Whoops. I mean

JONATHAN ALTER:
Why is this so important to the MAGA base?
MICHAEL WOLFF:
I’m not sure. It seems contradictory, as Trump is most imperiled. But a mythology grew around Epstein as the epicenter of elites like Bill Clinton, and that’s what some believe Epstein might expose.
“There was about 50 kids on [Panama City] beach when this happened, and they’re doing Oklahoma drills, and that’s where they run at each other and tackle one another. That ended up in an argument and fight which resulted in somebody firing a gun off.”
English as a Second Language, Declension Lesson:
FOOTBALL DRILLS
ARGUMENT
FIGHT
GUNFIRE
Gun battle outside of an LA nightclub in front of which many people await admission, or mill around at closing time, or something. A driver involved in the fight is shot, loses consciousness, and drives straight into the crowd! Zillions hurt, some critically. Wow! Can’t wait to see the footage.
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Update: Still a confused story; police are looking for a bald Hispanic gunman… ?
The crowd dragged the guy who rammed them out of his car and beat the shit out of him and the guy already had a gunshot in him which we can’t say much with certainty about this event but it’s clear this person had a very bad Friday night.
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https://www.facebook.com/boogiethaboogiemonstah/videos/1077821250657534
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So now it sounds as though after they dragged the (drunk?) driver out of his car, some passerby shot him.
This sounds very plausible. Very American.
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The increasingly reliable narrative of the event is one so familiar to UD.
The driver, drunk and disorderly, had been thrown out of the club; enraged, he got in his car and rammed it into people in front of the building.
I’ve seen this a lot of times; angry men who’ve been refused admission to venues, or thrown out, return with deadly weapons.
‘Police reported that a man, acting erratically, used a victim’s firearm to fatally shoot him.
The victim had been exercising his legal right to openly carry the weapon when the suspect, identified as 36-year-old Kyle Capucci, managed to seize it.
Jeff Margetta, an educated gun owner, expressed concerns about open carry practices. “I see people open carry, and they do not watch their surroundings at all,” he said. “And that’s kind of a scary thought, because someone could come up behind them, take their gun, and then they’re liable for what happens.”‘
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Yeah but this guy’s way past liability concerns.
His friend Trump has venous insufficiency. Epstein himself had … call it penous insufficiency. He was unable – or the good Lord didn’t grant him enough time – to eternalize his erection, to unbound his boner, to superannuate his stiffy.
Age/death caught up with both men; yet Epstein now enjoys the immortality he so passionately sought!
UD thought his 2019 suicide was the end of his Kafkan run, but she was very very wrong. He’s the talk of the town, the thing the Dems think will bring the prez down, the thing that will turn Trump’s smile to a frown.
Color UD amazed. Everyone knew Trump was a sexual degenerate when they voted for him. UD doesn’t understand why he needs to care about late-entry evidence. I’m watching the whole thing with bafflement.
Jonathan Brown, slavery-apologist extraordinaire, is just Part One.
You can still find Georgetown boasting about hoppin’ Shon Hopwood – sentenced just today for his latest, er, outburst – here. Veteran bad guy Shon was enacting one of those personal redemption stories of which we are so fond until his temper did him in again. Tsk.
Sure, after you expel the violent psycho with the loaded gun from your high school, you could continue his education virtually… But try finding anyone among your teachers willing to risk his getting to know where they live!
His parents (did they give him the gun?) have filed an angry indignant lawsuit; they cannot believe that just because their little one
was found with a loaded handgun near campus on Oct. 28, triggering an increased police presence that day as well as on Oct. 29, when a false report of an active shooter sent the school into a lockdown… Raleigh police detained J.S. and two other students behind Peace Street Market, which is just across from [the school]. They had left campus without permission on Oct. 28 around 10:30 a.m.. According to police, J.S. was in possession of [a] loaded firearm. He tried to run from police … Extra police were at Broughton for two days. Student attendance dropped as some parents kept their children home… In November, a district administrative panel recommended a long-term suspension of 365 days and expulsion. Wake County Superintendent Robert Taylor backed the recommendation... In April, a school board appeal panel upheld the 365-day suspension and expulsion... The student had “a pretty recent history of physically aggressive behaviors on campus” that … was increasing in severity.
… just because of the fights he routinely picked at school, his force backed up by a loaded pistol… just because of these teeny weeny infractions… the school, plus an appeals board, threw his wittle ass out totally! He’s just a child! A child with a loaded gun! Big deal!
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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.
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.
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