Witty Zara. Finding new meaning in an old song.
Witty Zara. Finding new meaning in an old song.
An Israeli soldier states the grotesque truth.
Italian meanies! He’s only trying to share the American way of life.
About sixty percent (!) of its GDP comes from cybercrime.
What makes it even prettier is that they traffic, imprison, and abuse the scammers.
Harvard’s conservative student magazine gets rather too excited.
Bullets are in the air as our universities (most recently, Lincoln and Howard) do homecoming the American way.
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This guy thinks you should separate the warring factions. Ain’t gonna happen. Schools like LSU are very little other than football/tailgating/drinking/shooting. Folks aren’t gonna like it if you interfere.
And it’s certainly keeping up the good work – Thirteen people were shot at an enormous party last night, with two dead and a bunch in critical condition. Concentrate enough drunk gunny dipshits in one place down south and this will tend to happen.
Federally allocated taxpayer money to feed hungry Missouri children! Twenty million dollars! So generous! SOOOO generous that the person allocating it figured she could take most of it herself – McMansions and a fluro yellow $200,000 Mercedes and lots more shit like that. She left a trickle for the kids.

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UPDATE: Got sixteen years.
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle, wrote Orwell, and while there are those who, without a struggle, can see the manifest meaning of the burqa, others, as blinded as women and children stashed behind mesh, simply will not perceive it. Countries all over the mideast and Europe have banned it; every week, a new country or province bans it. These places have eyes to see what is in front of their nose. Self-regarding ideologues, on the other hand, see only themselves. They blind themselves to radical misogyny and female enslavement staring at them – through a little eye-slit – smack in the face.
… is trashy enough.”
Suicidewise, nothing beats a gun range.
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