San Diego State: We’re on fire!

It’s hard to beat Operation Sudden Fall, but practically incinerating one of our frat pledges at an illegal party comes close. Scummy frats and don’t give a shit administrations remain central to the life of the mind at SDSU; expect more good shit from our school’s unique perspective on higher education.

“Oh, Iranian men, I shit in your honor…. 

Without them veils I'd be a goner.
I must have taken too much bourbon ...
Quick! Lend me PDQ your turban!
Ah. Now I feel at peace, and calmer."

‘The new complaint says [Duan] Wright was forced to step down from his role at Hartstern but was later “promoted” to “Principle of Academic Achievement” at JCPS.’

Promoted to a Principle?

And all because of his firearm skills.

Panopticon…

postmodernized.

David Lodge, hilarious chronicler of academia, dies.

UD will always admire the monologue he gave Fulvia Morgana, the way-rich, sybaritic Italian Marxist in Small World:

Of course I recognize the contradictions in our way of life, but those are the very contradictions characteristic of the last phase of bourgeois capitalism, which will eventually cause it to collapse. By renouncing our own little bit of privilege we should not accelerate by one minute the consummation of that process, which has its own inexorable rhythm and momentum, and is determined by the pressure of mass movements, not the puny actions of individuals. Since in terms of dialectical materialism it makes no difference to the ‘istorical process whether Ernesto and I, as individuals, are rich or poor, we might as well be rich, because it is a role which we know ‘ow to perform with a certain dignity.

Turns out you even need to be cool with the golden plates.

In 2022, the church began to require that clergy vouch for new [Brigham Young University] hires’ agreement with [church] leaders [on all faith matters] and affirm the candidate hasn’t used pornography recently.

What’s the procedure for proving to a clergyman you haven’t used porn recently?

J-M Le Pen’s death merely a detail.

His declaration that the Nazi gas chambers were “merely a detail” of World War Two history and that the Nazi occupation of France was “not especially inhumane” were for many people repulsive.

Insanely over the top sunrise in insanely over the top Naples.

From our hotel room balcony.

Trip today to Pompeii.

Mr UD and Amb. Peter Galbraith…

… study the Grecian urns in the Naples archeological museum. With Keats’s lines echoing in her head, brilliant mosaics underfoot, sunlight through veiled windows, and the urns themselves – objects UD considers among the most beautiful things in the world – your blogueuse found herself in tears.

Golden Sunlight Pours into the Bay.
The host will seat you now.

UD thanks Frances for the link.

From my hotel balcony: Naples, Vesuvius, Bay.

Sunrise.

My old buddy and traveling companion Peter definitely likes the good life.

But he’s not all about restaurants in Venice.

Whew. Just one of our routine, outside a nightclub, mass shootings.

The New York Police Department reassured the public that it was “not a terrorist attack.”

Madman or terrorist…

we’ll know soon enough.

***************

Probably terrorist. Definitely dead.

***************

‘An ISIS flag was attached to the pickup rear hitch.’

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