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"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
"I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere,
except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer,
and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her
politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Monday, October 17, 2005

Marauding Marsupial
In Waiting


UD really identifies with this morning’s Spiegel interview with Chancellor-in-Waiting Angela Merkel:


SPIEGEL: Have you felt trepidation creeping in these past few days?

Merkel: No. I'm not afraid, I am alert and excited, but not in the slightest bit anxious. I am immune to the seduction of power; at least I think I am.



Actually, UD is not immune to the seduction of power. Having clawed her way up to Adorable Little Rodent in the Truth Laid Bear ecosystem, she has every intention of continuing to claw…