November 3rd, 2023
How dare you lie to us about lying about the election and then not lie about the election.

We’re suing.

November 3rd, 2023
Soft moody sunrise…

… with solitary walker.

November 3rd, 2023
Louisiana: Killing off the next generation.

The biggest bloodbath in the United States isn’t skimping when it comes to the kiddies.

November 3rd, 2023
Whaddaya think they’re for?

A gun shop in Osseo [Minnesota] is under fire for an email it sent out promoting ammunition for customers’ “trip to the hood.”

The Osseo Gun Club and Pro Shop sent out the email last week that said “Remember we have 30 rnd mags for your trip to the hood.”

November 2nd, 2023
The Robert Card Memorial…

gift offer!

November 2nd, 2023
The Prez was here last week.

Today it’s just Les UDs, with their croque madames.

November 2nd, 2023
And while you’re vacationing in …

Albuquerque, don’t forget to visit Flix Brewhouse!

November 1st, 2023
Never know where you’ll find it.

On our drive to Rehoboth Beach today.

November 1st, 2023
Rehoboth Again.

Another autumn on the ocean for Les UDs. We’ll be here for awhile.

Blogging continues.

November 1st, 2023
Death by natural and cultural …

catastrophe.

October 31st, 2023
Sing it

Just a baby’s gun at twilight
That dad forgot to stow
Her baby years have ended here
With the gun she found at twilight

Dad’s sad to know
His precious little tot
Picked up his gun and shot

After saying “Goodnight, Mama”
She climbed upstairs
Quite unaware
And said her prayer:

“Oh, kindly tell my daddy that he must take care”

That’s a baby’s prayer at twilight
From up in heav’n somewhere

October 30th, 2023
“People have other irrational fears, like a fear of guns,” he said. “Dealing with that is a job for mental health professionals and not for me.”

There’ll always be a Montana.

October 30th, 2023
But he’s an American! This is worse than the death penalty.

The conditions for the “bind-over” order include abstaining from possessing firearms and ammunition for 24 months.

October 29th, 2023
La Kid, on her way to a Halloween party…

… in London.

She’s Barbie.

October 28th, 2023
His final years were marked by a dignified and fully honest assessment of his physical and moral collapse.

He leaves behind a book and a set of interviews in which he graphically and eloquently describes/analyzes the death spiral of drug and alcohol addiction.

“The world might be shocked at his untimely death, but Perry knew that his addiction was going to kill him.”

The fatal extremity of dependency has rarely been put before us with more power.

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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...
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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...
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From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
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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. ...
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I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
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As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
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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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