‘“How are the Saudis?” I asked.
“Very nice,” he replied. “Very understanding.”
A senior Saudi figure had approached the Israeli dentist, he said, congratulated him for saving the pilot, and thanked him. Then the Saudi took the dentist’s hand and walked with him.
The passenger tried to explain the gesture to me. Holding hands, he wrote, was a local expression of warmth.’
Well, UD wouldn’t be quite as explicit as The New Republic about the nature of most of Paxton’s scandals… But they are definitely… mounting scandals.
When they tell you your kid has to get off a car (there he is in red), you pull out your gun and threaten to kill them.
Give Jack Smith Schmitt, Schmitt, Schmitt. Don’t quit, Schmitt. Keep it up.
These very public proceedings reveal the moral degeneracy (I only have the stomach to link to what the freaky guy from Louisiana said to Smith during the proceedings) of MAGA politicians — on view most recently (remember?) as plagiarist Rand Paul tormented Anthony Fauci.
Sane, rational witnesses like Fauci and Smith create a striking contrast between drooling idiots and serious adults, and it’s there for all of us to see. Look carefully. Don’t look away. And for fuck sake, vote in the upcoming elections.
… in creek full of shit; ends up covered in shit.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6117781-eric-schmitt-jack-smith-hawks-hawkeyes-fani-willis
This appeared back in 2017, when the perverts at Penn State tortured and killed Timothy Piazza.
What happened to Timothy Piazza was a predictable tragedy, and there will be more unless we end Greek life for good. I make no claims that it will be easy. Fraternities have dominated campuses, defied authorities and rebuffed efforts at suppression for nearly 200 years. But in that time we have ended slavery, given women the vote and put men on the moon. Of course we can get rid of fraternities. College presidents, administrators and trustees just have to muster the will to do it. As for the rest of us, we need to keep pressure on them to do so, and keep counting the bodies until they act.
So as you follow what the perverts at Cornell did to the woman they gang-raped, remember: We can get rid of them.
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Cornell begins to respond.
The Council of Europe in this way marks its disgust at coercive woman-erasure. Bravo.
“Unfortunately in our society right now, we live in the ‘look at me’ society… It’s about the team and focus on the team, and not so much ‘look at me.’”
Coach blames society for player simulating pulling out his cock and pissing.
The last time this happened, the shooter was six years old. Now a shooter more than twice that age has gone and done it again.
Given this latest shooter’s advanced age, I doubt the story will get much play. An armed six year old would-be murderer is much more newsworthy than an armed thirteen year old would-be murderer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Abby_Zwerner
https://abcnews.com/US/13-year-custody-allegedly-shooting-middle-school-teacher/story?id=136820476
Yeah, usually they’re, like, successive. Over a few days.
Bada bing bada boom, the place was run by a dude with a way shady past. UD will now instruct you, step by step, in how to respond to this information.
1.]. Huge tracts of moneyed LA – pharma, movies, investments – constitute one big ol’ Shady Thicket Plantation. If yaint never heard of advanced capitalism, now’s the time to learn.
2.]. The owner’s bad druggy behavior – for which he paid a price – happened two decades ago, in his mid-twenties. He now of course represents for his clients an inspiring recovery story. So give it a rest.
3.] Does he lie on his web page and, for instance, call the place a recovery center instead of a sober living facility? Probably. I assume the website’s full of lies (it’s been heavily edited since people started sniffing around). The drug rehab industry is notoriously skeezy. Let the buyer beware.
4.]. Concentrate instead on actual malpractice, if it’s shown to have occurred. Did the place fail to assess Gerber as needing, say, hospitalization, rather than a bed there?
[A] film review and two op-eds arguing that AI cannot replace human “judgement” and “responsibility” in the domains of Catholicism and academia — returned “75%,” “96%” and “100% AI-written” respectively.
He was just appointed Dartmouth’s provost…
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Excellent journalism from The Dartmouth, reminiscent of Stanford’s newspaper uncovering President Tessier-Lavigne’s bullshit.
We left Rehoboth Beach yesterday afternoon.
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