… Bloomsday.

Today, it’s ranked #198. Search this blog for TEXAS TECH to find out all the reasons why.

TTU’s slogan:

WE’RE SO MUCH MORE THAN BRENDAN SORSBY!

My bad. In an earlier post, I described veteran game-gambler Brendan Sorsby as on his way to the ethics-free NFL, having been evacuated from the cloaca of college football.

Now it turns out that even the NFL won’t take a guy who bets on his own games!

This puts the ball back in Texas Tech’s court. They love him there, and did everything they could to clear him to play; but eventually the contempt and disgust of the world forced them to give him up.

Anyway, they figured the NFL would take him.. But hey it didn’t, see, so this is TTU’s big chance to draw their sweet babe back into their arms and make him theirs again… God knows a guy like Sorsby is made for that school and that school alone…

Heidegger, anticipating this photo, which UD took on her city walk this morning.

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The barricades are to keep crowds from gathering to celebrate the re-opening to light of John F. Kennedy’s name.

The guy who did the Reflecting Pool work.

So there’s the university angle, which interests us here at University Diaries (though lack of qualifications earning a person a job at a Spanish or Italian university isn’t exactly news — that’s one of the ways your big whole entire modern rich country gets exactly one university on a respectable position on the international ‘best of’ lists, and that one – U of Barcelona – only staggers up to #88 on one list, and #145 on another). But the Spanish PM’s now-arrested wife’s expanded list of misdeeds is far sexier than squatting on a university position for which you don’t qualify: ‘embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds.’

UD admits to relief at this bigtime Spanish corruption story. She has missed the almost-fall of the monarchy (King Juan Carlos; his daughter; his daughter’s ex-husband) due to breathtaking corruption. So now she has this.

David Hearn comes from a longtime, superathletic, Garrett Park family. (This says born in ‘thesda, but that should read Garrett Park.). Updates as they become available.

On June 19, 2026, Hearn was arrested by United States Park Police officers on the charge of misdemeanor destruction of government property near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. At the time of the incident, Donald Trump had accused “vandals” of sabotaging the pool’s $13.1 million renovation, which was plagued with algal blooms and peeling paint days after its completion. In an interview with The Washington Post, Hearn said he had reached into the pool to feel the texture of the peeling paint, and had not removed or damaged anything.

… in favor of Andy Burnham.

In the last week, UD’s done a Sound of Music Singalong and a Songs of Tom Lehrer Singalong. And she read from Molly Bloom’s soliloquy on Bloomsday.

They always say that.

In this case, a year after a sixteen year old killed three people at a local fair, organizers insist it can’t happen again. But “Utah lacks every foundational gun violence prevention law,” see, and that’s how sixteen year olds get hold of guns and blast away in front of the Ferris wheel crowds.

Oh but calm down, silly. The shooting was targeted.

‘James Williams [was] wearing a handgun in a chest holster, as well as a bandoleer with additional ammo and a body camera…. [Police also found on the man] two revolvers and bandoleers of ammo. [On a nearby tractor,] police found another revolver, an AR-15, several knives and a bayonet.’

Oh come now. College football stinks to high heaven, and the effort of Texas Tech to retain a filthy quarterback (“Somebody’s gambling on a sport they’re playing. You don’t think something’s wrong with that?”) is merely the latest defining stinkbomb.

The school, and the state’s poster boy for purulence, Ken Paxton, have withdrawn their lawsuits, while the QB himself has gone to a better, ethics-free place (the NFL). All is well, and schools like Texas Tech may proceed to their next shit-clogged hero.

“Both individuals lived together in a recreational vehicle in which they had been trapping, feeding and breeding wild rats. In addition, the vehicle was severely infested with wild rats that were not in cages.”

The French academic establishment takes ten years to nail a notorious plagiarist. We wrote about him in 2016, and must have figured something would happen…

And it did! It did! Yesterday.

And what better possession for an Alzheimer’s sufferer than a pistol with which he can threaten his neighbor?