Over on Truth Social, Donald Trump has begun “live truthing” the Harris speech. But … he seems to be stuck on the Bidens. He posts, bizarrely: “WHERE’S HUNTER?”
Best line so far of Harris’s acceptance speech.
Hate to be Debbie Downer, but lest we get lost in the sheer delight of the Democratic convention, we need to venture for just a moment into the dark night of the Project 2025 soul.
In case we need reminding what the battle’s about.
Bring back the good old days!
C’mon! Your voters are already all over it! Don’t be a pussy, Don!
[W]here once 56 percent [of Americans] believed the former president could stay alert in the middle of a nuclear emergency, [now] it is 49 percent.
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Then again, how many of US would be able to stay alert in the middle of a nuclear emergency? I think most of us would be nodding off.
One of the bootlickingest Trumpists out there just called Arizona Republicans who have decided to vote for Harris whores.
Strange… I thought prostitution was illegal in Arizona. Ignore these whores.
Well… but… YOU didn’t ignore them, Jake. You emblazoned them on X, and now outlets like NPR are reporting on your astonishingly unChristian use of language.
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And then there’s the Trump campaign. In response to my Rep. Jamie Raskin’s perfectly reasonable, well-meant, warning to JD Vance to watch himself, given that Trump and his enthusiasts almost hanged his predecessor, the Trump campaign issued an official statement: “Jamie Raskin is a disgusting piece of trash.”
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Or, in the original German, one of America’s highest-profile Jews is Dreckjude.
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Whores. Disgusting trash. This, mes petites, is how you talk when you are very, very desperate.
Refreshing. Hillary Clinton addresses thirty percent of our rapidly secularizing nation in her convention speech.
The Florida Republican Party said polling suggesting former president Donald Trump could lose Florida in 2024 was “extremely alarming.”
Evan Power, the chairman of the Florida GOP, sent out a fundraising email in response to Newsweek’s August 13 report on a poll that suggested Florida was not a guarantee for Trump with the headline: “Donald Trump at Risk of Losing Florida, Poll Suggests.”
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Jan. 8, 2024:
The Republican Party of Florida ousted its chairman on Monday, more than a month after the police in Sarasota confirmed that he was under criminal investigation for sexual assault.
DC City Council Member Who Said Jews Control the Weather Arrested by FBI
He demanded only three percent to hand out contracts, a very low number based on the only career extorter UD has known. Her acquaintance, Asif Ali Zardari, was known as Mr Ten Percent…
But, based on FBI recordings of Trayon White, he had plans to expand his field of corruption, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this involved increasing his percentage too. We shall never know.
What we can be pretty sure of is that, under pressure, White will reveal more of the workings of the Jews, which will turn out to involve their having taken over the FBI. I thought it was the Mormons.
UD first encountered “tumescent” in a poem written by the sister of her high school boyfriend, and EKS used the word in its most common sense to mean an erect penis.
In this excerpt, Michael Tomasky, whose writing I admire, mixes things up a bit too much, offers too generous a helping of figurative language. He uses tumefied correctly, to mean narcissistically swelled up about one’s own greatness. But those of us familiar with this fancy adjective’s provenance are likely to venture toward swollen phallus territory.
Yet just after we start venturing, we’re hit with flaccid, a word, like tumescent, rarely employed non-phallically.
So is Donald Trump impressively tumescent/tumefied, or is he, like at least sixty percent of men his age, tumescent-challenged?
Ain’t none of my business; the point here is that Tomasky’s writing has me thinking about flaccid v. tumescent, and that’s not where he wants my thinking to go.
There’s a grief that can’t be spoken
There’s a pain goes on and on
Empty chairs in Pennsylvania
As DT drones on and on…
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From the podium before them
They can see our land reborn
Yet they rise to go home early
They would rather download porn
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... The very words that he is speaking
Become 'slur-filled delusions'
On this lonely barricade
At dawn
Strange dear, but true dear,
The shit you say about Jews, dear,
It makes me scared! cuz I…
Am a Jew about to die!
I must flee to Valencia
[Unless you have dementia]
Oh Don darling why
Do you say I’m gonna die?
America’s a wasteland, says Vance guru Peter Thiel
I’m boxing up my billions and I’m moving to New Zeal.
Patriots like me believe
If you don’t like the US, leave.
Fuck that ‘Make America Great Again’ spiel.
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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.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
