University Diaries

I was minding my own business, following a big ol’ fraud story, when I stumbled on Acting Deputy Executive Associate Director on Homeland Security Investigations Matthew Millhollin, and my eyes just POPPED at all those adjectives…

‘Susan Kwosek, an assistant professor of history, said she’s teaching eight classes this semester, twice as many as a normal four-course load.’

A whole new set of rules.

… Leslie Whittington.

The federal appeals court in Nawlins boasts a lot of holy rollers, and they’re not about to let the odd Supreme Court precedent get in the way of forcing the Ten Commandments into every public classroom in their state.

It’s heartland America – Oklahoma – where folks leave their kids alone with loaded guns.

… it’s going to be harder to shoot all your political enemies to death.

New term for shooters “trigger-pullers.”

[The Louisiana State University] administration has “no meaningful control” over [coach Lane] Kiffin or the LSU football program.

‘An estimated 32 million children in the United States live in homes with firearms, nearly 7 million of whom have at least one firearm in the household that’s unlocked and loaded.’

All universities have sandblast embarrassments.

Orpheus with his loot made trees And the mountain tops that freeze Bowed themselves when he did bring To massive plants and flowers Private jets and rotorcraft, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.

… or you think this a twisted and destructive point of view.

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