Naught’s so foul, that on the earth doth live, as frat foul.
Maybe Bret Stephens is right. Maybe Vance is trying to blame it on the Jews.
Me, I just recalled the one group of Americans Vance has always singled out as the source of our national failures – “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” I assumed he’d blame them for the blue wave.
Maybe Vance meant to say “Jewish childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
… black Senator? Heads up, y’all! Get a load of them Ole Miss students doing monkey grunts right on camera!
Oh no wait I made a mistake. That footage was back in 2013 when about 400 Ole Miss dudes were super-pissed that a black guy got elected president. What a fuss they made! Burned his pic! Also on camera.
No, this latest one was a bunch of Ole Miss missies being racist just tuther day. Hard to keep up.
Massie’s statement is one for the ages.
What have the two old college friends been up to since the recent Series of Unfortunate Events?
They’ve been up to their old tricks, the rascals!
‘[In a video circulating online, a] man sits on the ground with his sweatpants on fire. He then lunges at a second person and tackles him. The second man’s clothing also catches fire, and they both roll on the ground removing their clothes as several onlookers intervene. One appears to be holding a small fire extinguisher…
Columbus [Ohio] Police Sgt. Joe Albert said it appears the matter took place on Saturday.’
Although the two men have not yet been identified, many believe they are the VP and Ramaswamy, whose friendship, starting at Yale, has always been based on shared sadomasochism.
…. AND on removing the right of women to vote. Wilson is too modest in his list of reasons for the Republican defeat. He owes it to himself to remind reporters that while he has tried to destroy voting rights for women, MAGA has largely ignored him. Until the movement answers this biblically-grounded call (and not forgetting the call to criminalize pornography and heavily promote public executions), it will continue to rot in the hell of God’s disfavor.
The heroic Poles who took down the Krakow mass murderer. Both are in critical condition.
… It virtually guarantees a greater likelihood of dementia.
Having been turned down by “Ultimate Fighting” Dana White, Trump has turned to Cooke-Case, well-known in her home state of New Hampshire for her feisty, no holds barred attitude. “I can think of no one better prepared to take on the fake media than Van,” said the president. “She totally knows how to defend herself and defend me.”
The White House distributed these background materials.
We’re a couple of shits
We loved old Don to bits
But now that he’s a loser
We will kick his saggy tits
We’re a couple of fucks
We smell like a garbage truck
This Sunday we will wash it off
In a big old church yuk yuk
***************
Old Don has asked us up for tea
We don’t know how to get there, no siree
No, siree
We would drive up Penn Avenue, but we haven’t got the price
We would skate up Penn Avenue, but there isn’t any ice
We would ride on a bicycle, but we haven’t got a bike
So we’ll run from the Avenue
Yes, we’ll run from the Avenue
Yes, to run from the Avenue’s what we like
—
Remember the Trumpians’ manifesto, Project 2025? It demanded that pornography be outlawed.
Given the predilections of the Republican elite, I’m thinking they would have exempted any form of sadism.
****************
Anyway, among the reasons to thank the Lord we Dems prevailed in the midterms is the blessed assurance that JD Vance and other sadism-adjacents will certainly forget all about that morsel.
Buttigieg has been trying out the Trump stink meme, and it’s a good one.
Vance can’t keep “the Trump stink” off of him.
I hope others pick it up. It’s… piquant.
‘The suspect had a gun and said, “Give me your money or I will kill you,” and, “I already killed two people; there are no cameras here,” the report said.
The woman told the suspect her purse was inside and offered to leave her car keys while she retrieved it, according to the report. She then returned and handed the suspect money.
The suspect returned her keys and told her, “Have a blessed day.” ’
‘The cancel culture of the MAGA right inflicted immense cruelty on its enemies, and MAGA relished their pain…
[The Republican Party has become like Trump.] That’s why a loathsome politician like Vivek Ramaswamy runs an ad exploiting the rape of a child. That’s why an equally loathsome politician like JD Vance spreads gross lies about immigrants far and wide even as innocent people suffer from the pain and shame that he caused.
That’s why grotesque racists like Bo French felt that they had a home in the Republican Party. After all, if the president can condemn entire groups of immigrants based on their countries of origin, then why can’t every other Republican who wants to broadcast his own bigotry do so? That’s why hundreds of thousands of Texas primary voters could look at Ken Paxton — and all of his adultery and corruption — and say, “Yep. That’s exactly the man we need in the Senate.”
… They made the conscious decision to follow, defend and pledge allegiance to an unstable, hateful man, and now — at long last — they’re experiencing the inevitable consequences of their inexcusable moral compromises.’
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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.
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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.
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It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
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There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
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You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
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Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
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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.
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[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
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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...
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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.
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