Well, we’ll see if UD’s own Maryland can pull itself together to pass this. It would be a beautiful thing.

The Economist notes that such legislation is the wave of the future.

Or uh make that Thirty Under Thirty, its exclusive compilation of the most amazing young entrepreneurs.

Already four of the thirty have gone to jail or are on their way. Stay tuned for more!

Time was that last nugget (this is from a 2024 article) would have knocked us all over: Gee! Tea in BP with the Prince!

Now it sends out alarms – whoop!whoop!whoop! – just as piercing as the alarms set off by the news yesterday that Ariely, Duke U’s highest-profile professor, is mentioned I dunno a billion times in the just-released Jeffrey Epstein stuff. Dey was REAL tight goodfellas.

Ariely was also real close – a research collaborator – with F. Giro, the chick dismissed from Harvard for you-could-die levels of research fraud, and whose life now revolves around an eternal and insanely expensive lawsuit against (and also one from), that institution. Plus you can read with ease many discussions of Ariely’s own uh questionable results.

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Sing it.

Research fraud. Ok.

He brings in the bucks

Let him stay

But what if we’re fucked

By the Epstein stuff?

When is it enough?

As a notorious local squatter goes to jail for 90 days and gets a fine, one of Maryland’s bleeding heart pols comments.

Maryland state Del. Teresa Woorman, whose district includes the Bethesda neighborhood where Goode was squatting, said her thoughts were focused on how to help squatters when asked for her opinion on [Tameika] Goode’s conviction …

‘I think we need to look at how it is happening across our state, and figure out how to best address not just people breaking in, but the underlying issues people are having when they have that need to seek shelter,’ she said. 

Homelessness ‘thesda-style, baby! She drove into that four car garage in a $190,000 Porsche, and broke into that house, in her desperate need for shelter — and the cruelty of her neighbors to witness her suffering and send in the goons to drag her away!

You’d think the Moose Jaw location would deter them somewhat; or maybe the Bernie Madoff success rate …

Of course it’s Canada that should/should long ago have done the deterring, but Canada Nice seems to include welcoming people like this with open arms.

Now I’m worried about that ten billion dollar lawsuit of his against the IRS.

If you, like me, miss the Alex Murdaugh trial — and in particular the courtroom testimony of poor uneducated low country folk whose two million dollar personal injury settlements were stolen in their entirety by Murdaugh — direct your attention to Detroit. In that city, not merely lawyers, but also a judge, have been stealing from their most vulnerable wards — old, impoverished, profoundly disabled people who had been placed in this group’s safekeeping.

I mean, any of us would have been tempted. These are no ‘count senile shut-ins who probably don’t expect anything other than the thin gruel and oblivion that is their lot. I mean, go for it.

How can YOU hire the sort of university president who can make this happen for YOU? That is the question American universities want answered.

Track down Betsy Cantwell, whose last name is an ironic reversal on her can-do approach to public service. This is a woman who, when president of Utah State University, bought herself a circa $20,000 “climate-controlled golf cart.” It CAN be done!

Betsy might go to jail because she broke a bunch of state laws, but meanwhile she got out of USU PRONTO when things started getting hot for her (her term there lasted one year) and can now be found hiding in plain sight at notorious Washington State University, whose somewhat malsain operations this blog has followed for years. WSU clearly felt an immediate affinity with ol’ Bets and wrote up this uh selective account of her uh operations at USU.

They forgot to mention not only the golf cart (and the bidet for her office) but the possibly criminal malfeasance.

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Now you’d think WSU would be all in a tizzy – their shiny new prez might soon be hauled in front of a congressional panel and then maybe a judge – but take a look at this and ask yourself: Would Mike Leach find uncomfortable questions from government representatives embarrassing? UD knows WSU and Betsy Cantwell will brazen this out beautifully.

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Crap schools are crappy for a reason. You need to start with trustees that are corrupt and absolutely bewilderingly stupid. And way into football. Current WSU athletics debt is around a quarter billion dollars. Betsy’s the frugal money manager.

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’Items Cantwell purchased have been inventoried, [and one person handling the scandal notes that] the school could consider selling them off to make up the funds.

But “Removing a bidet will cost money.”’

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ONE USED BIDET LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WHO WISHES TO START THE BIDDING

Hard to see how you beat Monica Cannon-Grant’s achievements.

All say no. Legislation is pending.

… and has always been struck by his gracious cautious senatorial demeanor. Pleasant, genial. Certainly not full of himself, but also not very commanding a presence.

Man, has that changed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/arts/music/springsteen-streets-of-minneapolis-ice-protest-song.html

The only sensible way to look at this is if these guys weren’t helping international criminals steal money they’d be senior officers in the German High Command. Let them have their fun.

You may recall Christopher Buckley’s God is My Broker: A  Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth. Brother Owens is the man!

So the magic trick seems to be: You agree to be snowed by my impressive advanced degrees, and I spend decades signing off on/taking part in research fraud.

There’s too much grant money and associated professional advancement and oh yeah investor money at stake for anyone to care too awfully much about whether images or data emanating from top of the heap sites like Dana Farber is – you know … I mean – impeccably accurate … And as long as loser assholes like Sholto David don’t actually subject our work to close analysis it’s a win-win situation for everyone!

I mean except for sick and dying people. But we’re running a business here.