Of Course: Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir," Which Was, Of Course, Ghostwritten by a White Woman;<br>Comparing His Initial Proposal and the Book Itself, The Atlantic Finds More Cases of Fabulism and Lying

Of Course: Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir," Which Was, Of Course, Ghostwritten by a White Woman;
Comparing His Initial Proposal and the Book Itself, The Atlantic Finds More Cases of Fabulism and Lying

Before that: the Metropolitan Police said "oops, ooopsie" about investigating a reporter for four whole months because a black fraudster and scamster said that it was "distressing" him and harming his mental health to be questioned at all.

And I do want to emphasize that this is an "oops, oopsie" non-apology. The head of the Met is completely frivolous and unserious about his organization acting as a Gestapo for a foreign scammer:

The head of the Metropolitan Police has said his force should not have investigated a journalist who was looking into plagiarism claims about a University of Cambridge professor.
Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said officers "dropped the ball" when they looked into a complaint made against journalist Jack Grove over his attempts to contact Prof Jason Arday.
Sir Mark told broadcaster LBC the complaint should have been "screened out earlier on as not requiring investigation".
...

Times Higher Education (THE) reporter Grove said he had been investigating allegations Arday had plagiarised parts of his PhD, and contacted him in 2025 to offer him the right of reply.
"In early February I received a call from a Met police officer saying that a complaint had been raised against me by someone and Professor Arday was very distressed and I shouldn't contact him again," Grove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"It was a complete shock. Apparently it was for harassment but I hadn't contacted him for four months and then maybe I think I've only sent three or four emails to him in total."
The Met closed its inquiries into the case.
Sir Mark told LBC: "We dropped the ball on that one, let's not beat around the bush.
"A report came in of harassment or some crime like that, it should have been screened out as not requiring investigation...
"We shouldn't have made that call to him [Grove] and said that."

To see how off-handed, flippant, and non-apologetic this "oops, oopsie" is, see this video.

They'll do it again tomorrow. And then they'll just say "garsh we dropped the ball on that one, boy is our face red" the next time.

For his part, Arday is blaming the university that gave him a Ph.D. for his fake and plagiarized paper, saying they hadn't given his autistic grifting ass enough "supervision."

The Telegraph published three excerpts from Arday's dissertation alongside the original sources from which he is alleged to have plagiarized. In some instances, the passages are virtually identical; in others, only minor wording changes distinguish them.
The controversy centers on allegations that, while Arday cited the original author elsewhere in his dissertation, he failed to properly attribute the passages in question. Arday has maintained that the omission was attributable to his autism.
The BBC reported last week, "Arday did not dispute the allegations of plagiarism, but defended himself by arguing that he had not received adequate supervision during his PhD given his autism and learning disabilities."

Now I know why that white girl in the last post pretends to be disabled and riddled with Tourettes: It's an amazingly lucrative grift.

So Simon & Schuster paid this "superstar" nobody $1.4 million in a fake advance. (Fake because it's not a real "advance" -- they had no hope of every recouping this from sales. They just wanted to be in the DEI Superstar Jason Arday Business.)

To get this DEI Jackpot, Arday submitted a proposal, telling Simon & Schuster the Amazing Tales they would get in exchange for their money.

The Atlantic has a copy of that proposal, as well as the book itself which will be released next week.

They find that Jason Arday further confabulated the lies already present in the proposal:

Paul Embery
@PaulEmbery
11h
This is wild. The Atlantic has obtained a copy of Jason Arday's book proposal. In it, he claims to have:
- Experienced 'locked-in' syndrome for several months after being hit by a car. Doctors advised his family to have the life support machine turned off, but he awakened 'miraculously'
- Been struck down by testicular cancer (though this changes in the book to brain cancer)
- Been beaten up by a group of kids and then, in court, pleaded with the judge not to jail them. Coincidentally, two of the kids later became his students, and Arday became godfather to the child of one of them
- Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

I'm thinking "Desperado."

- Been awarded several accolades - of which no proof exists online.
- Been told by a 'shaman woman' in Brazil that he would suffer greatly but also do great thing. 'Every event she described has since come to pass,' he wrote.
The book is due for publication next week by @simonschuster. Surely they have to pull it.

LOL, of course they won't. Don't be a dope.

Here are excerpts from The Atlantic, comparing the lies in the proposal to the lies in the actual book.

According to a cover letter that his agent sent to publishers at the time, Arday's book, to be titled Great and Unfortunate Things, would be "an awe-inspiring tale of near mythic proportions."
That now appears to be an understatement. Arday's story was indeed astonishing: As a toddler, he was diagnosed with autism and developmental delays; he didn't fully speak until the age of 11; he learned to read and write only as an adult. Arday's parents are Ghanaian immigrants; he grew up wearing homemade clothes and hustling for cash by playing snooker.

By the way, there's no evidence he ever played snooker for money.

Yet in spite of all these obstacles and many, many others he has recounted over the years, Arday found a way to go to university and then to graduate school. Eventually, he got his Ph.D., and then he became a star. "We are so lucky to have you," Cambridge's head of faculty for education, Hilary Cremin, told him in a clip shown on BBC shortly after his hiring was announced. "You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do."
But in the past two weeks, Arday's near-mythic (or perhaps purely mythic) tale has disintegrated. In July, a philosopher named Nathan Cofnas published a long Substack post reviewing apparent evidence of plagiarism in Arday's academic work. Cofnas posted 36 passages from Arday's 2015 dissertation, about student teaching, which reproduce or closely track text found in a 2009 dissertation from another scholar in the field, Paula Zwozdiak-Myers. Arday looks to have even copied from and rearranged Zwozdiak-Myers's title, and in doing so to have misused an apostrophe.

It's more embarrassing than that. His title uses the word "teachers," just the plural of teacher, but he puts an apostrophe after it to make it a possessive. And then he does that in the entire paper, too.

People have pointed out that is plagiarism is proven by the fact that typos and misspellings in the text he copied are perfectly reproduced in his "own" paper, which of course means he just cut and paste someone else's work.

But the "teachers'" type seems to be an Arday Original, at least.

Oh: As someone commented, just interviewing people and writing down their feelings is the "lowest-hanging fruit" of the (scam) research world. Most fake DEI papers, including "Doctor" Jill Biden's, consist of just interviewing your friends and fellow students and then "analyzing" their "lived experiences."

That's mostly what Arday's doctoral paper is -- but then he doesn't even do the lowest of low-hanging fruit of the fake research world.

He just cribs the interviews from the paper he's copying and claims he conducted the interviews himself!

Quotes from structured interviews that Arday claimed to have performed closely resembled those used by other researchers; parts of some interview responses also reappeared across different studies under Arday's name, attributed to different people. This duplication, if deliberate, would be something other than plagiarism--it would be academic fraud. (The website Retraction Watch reports that two of Arday's papers were quietly corrected.)

He's continuing to insist that all scrutiny of his lies and fraud is racist:

Arday did not respond to questions from The Atlantic, but he told The Times last week that he is not a "liar" or a "fantasist" and that he'd been given insufficient supervision as a graduate student, especially in light of his learning disabilities: "It's more likely that I've made a mistake, there's a clerical error. It's not that I've fabricated." He also seemed to address such allegations at a conference in April for the British Sociological Association, where he gave a talk about pervasive efforts to discredit Black scholars including himself. "These people are brilliant, perversely brilliant," he told his colleagues. "There are times when you look at what they're doing and you say to yourself, Well done, well played, very good. You've caught me [in] a thousand knots--how do I get myself out of this situation?"

Now, on to the comparison of Arday's claims in the proposal and the claims made in the book:

Great and Unfortunate Things, which Arday co-wrote with Eve Claxton, is still scheduled to come out next week from Simon & Schuster.

Co-wrote? You mean, she wrote it entirely, based on his verbal claims.

Aren't academics supposed to write their own books?

The story that it tells should not be taken at face value; it differs notably from other versions of his life that Arday has shared in public and in private, including in the original proposal he sent out with his agent. But the book is also, in a way, very honest and quite telling: It provides a vivid portrait of a man who was always manifestly ill-equipped for academia yet found a way to reach its upper levels. This is not someone else's cruel assessment of Arday's tragic and improbable career. It's his own.
The memoir begins with a prophecy. It's 2006, and Jason Arday, then 21 years old, is installing water pumps in the favelas of Brazil and showing children how to use them. A local aid worker--"a woman in her thirties with dark hair and eyes and a gentle, steady way about her"--touches his arm and softly tells him that he is destined to suffer in his life but also to do great things. "After the trip was over, I never saw the woman again, but her words stayed with me," Arday writes, "and, you might say, her prediction came true."
The rest of the book is an elaboration on this moment: Arday suffers; Arday overcomes. The doctors who assessed him as a toddler told his mother that "there's no one in there" and that he was "no better than a vegetable." Even his speech therapist wasn't optimistic that he'd ever learn to talk. (At one point, she also physically abused him, the memoir says.) As a boy, Arday rocked and hummed and banged his head until he bled; he slammed cupboard doors and smeared his feces on the walls. Yet still, eventually, he started to verbalize. Still, eventually, he made his way through school.
Tribulations piled up throughout his life. Arday is nearly deaf in one ear; he's dyslexic; he finds simple math befuddling; he has "marked difficulties" with memory, reading, and processing skills. As a teen, he was beaten so severely by a group of kids his age that he became an epileptic. To make his way through secondary school while--by his own account--illiterate, he needed ample help: support assistants who sat beside him in class and took notes on his behalf.
When Arday applied to university, his girlfriend, Debs--who had been teaching him to read--"wrote out" the application on his behalf, including the personal statement. In university, a friend who took the same courses sat beside him, sharing notes. (She's "the only reason I survived" university, he says.) By the time Arday started on his master's degree, he writes, he was reading at about the same level as his 3-year-old daughter. Still, he pressed onward. Still, somehow, he got a teaching job.
His obstacles were only multiplying, though. Money was tight, so after each day of teaching, Arday writes, he had to work an overnight shift in a supermarket, from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., and then a morning shift as a cleaner from 5:30 to 7:30. The only time he had left to write his dissertation was when he was commuting between London, where he lived, and Liverpool, where he taught. On those semiweekly five-hour rides, the book explains, he would open up his laptop on the plastic seat-back table and start typing out his thesis, hunt-and-peck style.
As his dissertation deadline approached, Arday started having blurry vision; medical scans revealed a brain tumor. After it was removed, he had a ministroke and lost his short-term memory.

This sounds like a collection of excuses he gave to teachers and professors to get them to give him a passing grade for failure-level work.

When you succeed against pretty much insurmountable odds," Arday writes in the book, "it weirdly makes people question your credibility." Is it weird? I don't think it's weird. When you keep succeeding against insurmountable odds, the facts of your surmounting will be bound to get a second look.

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But the most disturbing inconsistencies arise from Arday's book proposal, a copy of which was obtained by The Atlantic. That document, from 2024, cites several accolades of which no proof exists online. The proposal also lays out many of the same events as the memoir but with slightly different dates and details: The boys who beat him up were not his age but four years older; his suicide attempt happened before, not during, the pandemic. And whereas the book describes Arday as having survived two brain tumors, the proposal says he had a bout of testicular cancer. No reference to that illness appears in the memoir.
Nor does the book describe the time that Arday, then a teenager, was struck by a car and spent several months in a coma. According to the book proposal, the doctors told his parents that he would never recover, and suggested taking him off life support "as an act of mercy." Through all of this, he was aware of everything that was going on, because he had locked-in syndrome. "As I will describe to readers in the book," Arday wrote in the proposal, "these months afforded me another profoundly different way of perceiving the world."
The book doesn't describe any of this, nor that he awakened "miraculously" from the coma, nor the full year he spent "relearning everything--how to walk, to talk."
Instead, the memoir tells us only that he spent those months finishing his final year of secondary school and taking his exams. "I was relieved, beyond relieved," the memoir says, when those were done.
Then there is the prophecy--the revelation Arday was given in Brazil, that he would suffer greatly and also do great things. According to the proposal, this occurred in 2005, not 2006, and the message came not from a local aid worker in her 30s but from "an elder in the small town where I had been assigned, who was well-known in the area for predicting people's futures." (Later in the proposal, he calls this person a "shaman woman.") "Do you know the story of Spartacus, the escaped slave who led a rebellion against the Romans?" this town elder asks, before telling him his fate in minute detail. "Every event she described," Arday writes in the proposal, "has since come to pass."

Below: When asked why he told such tall tales without including any evidence to support them, he responds, "To be honest with you, I just thought you'd believe me."

Exactly.

"To be honest with you, I thought you'd just believe me" pic.twitter.com/ldsVvHjyuW
— S. I. Rubinstein (@si_rubinstein) August 1, 2026

One point I keep hearing is that people initially didn't care much about this because it's sociology and literally everyone knows sociology is entirely a bullshit field populated by dum-dums and grifters. One guy said that he checked Arday's plagiarism against the paper he plagiarized from: The plagiarized paper was also empty, stupid, banal, and worthless.

Here's evidence of that: All of these DEI "sociology" perfessers are low-IQ hustlers and bullshit artists.

This guy claims he want to school with Arday when Arday was, according to his Official Biographical Bullshit, entirely mute and non-verbal.

This guy says he was always "chatty" and running his mouth.

Tik Tok account says he was at Heathbrook Primary School with Jason Arday who was far from mute... pic.twitter.com/8SQLBnve4v
— Sidsy (@GrumpyOW) August 7, 2026

Very Obama-esque:

for more on jason arday's hallucinatory megalomania, check out this excerpt from his forthcoming @simonschustermemoir memoir: claims that a woman who gazed upon him received a "prophecy" that he was destined for "great things" & "sad and difficult things," like a hero of myth pic.twitter.com/xw6YavULQd
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) August 3, 2026

Ladies and gentlemen, the youngest ever black professor at Cambridge University. pic.twitter.com/eVnn7prdWO
— Will Kingston (@WillKingston) August 2, 2026

Apes eat figs in grottos.

It�s not like Jason Arday was was genius scam artist, articulate and able to fool the finest minds. No, he�s a literal moron that no one dared challenge due to DEI. You could find diverse yoof saying this in a Year 10 history class. pic.twitter.com/UM6DSgYLBl
— David (@merrieenglander) August 5, 2026

Professor Jason Arday in a rare behind-the-scenes photo of his first acting role as 1987's 'Predator' also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. https://t.co/976gcgjCn9 pic.twitter.com/oq7GnWnsnh
— 𝚝𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚎 (@tapedrone) August 6, 2026

Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
20h
The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a Western system rotting under the weight of human deadwood. Not just academia, wokeness, welfare bureaucracies, "learing" centers, or the laptop manager class exposed during Covid, but an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness. The real work is left to a shrinking productive minority forced to carry everyone else.

"You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:00 PM

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1 Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (NcvvS)

3 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (ExV1e)

4 >>- Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

Probably Baba O'Reily

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:02 PM (uzmqU)

5 One look at Jason Arday and I'd figure he was retarded and rode the short bus.

How he fooled anyone but bleeding heart DEI's is true.

I would love to see a taped lecture of his. Love it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:03 PM (hzuYO)

6 The head of the Met is completely frivolous and unserious about his organization acting as a Gestapo for a foreign scammer

In fairness to Sir Mark Rowley, they were acting as a Gestapo for someone who is, reportedly, a black man. The fact that he's both foreign and a scammer is just a bonus.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:03 PM (ExV1e)

7 I skimmed it frankly because this is a lot more common now in DEI academia than it used to be. Worthless degrees, worthless research, and horrible people from all points of the globe out to scam and gain power by any means possible.

I am glad to be out.

Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 05:03 PM (E4rtv)

8

This whole thing was leaked on purpose.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (2jv4y)

9 This is like the time Kramer sold his Life Story to J. Peterman.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (uzmqU)

10 For his part, Arday is blaming the university that gave him a Ph.D. for his fake and plagiarized paper, saying they hadn't given his autistic grifting ass enough "supervision."

This is not a completely unreasonable take.

Sure, he could have been honest and done scholarly work but... that's hard. They're supposed to check.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (ExV1e)

11 Damn. That’s some girthy content.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (g9+4z)

12 off sock.

I would love to see a taped lecture of his. Love it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Somewhere on X, someone posted a review by a student of Arday at his first university as a lecturer. Basically thought, the gist of it was that the whole course ended up a waste of time as Arday never even taught as such, just rambled about celebrities and politics.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:05 PM (E4rtv)

13 Dammit, I at least wrote my own articles! What a piece of shit.

Posted by: Stephen Glass at August 07, 2026 05:05 PM (ZOv7s)

14 >>>Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
Probably Baba O'Reily

is this a joke I'm not getting?

Posted by: ace at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (1wjle)

15 I give that Arday fella lots of credit. Ripping off stupid white people for fame and fortune.

Why not?

Posted by: Zombie Jesse Jackson, Race Hustler and Warlord Jew Hater at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (45BvE)

16 Speaking of reading, reading challenge in the ghetto.

https://tinyurl.com/59phn7yw

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (ndZc7)

17 >>>9 This is like the time Kramer sold his Life Story to J. Peterman.

Thus ruining the very pants he was returning! You see Elaine, *that* is interesting writing!

Posted by: J. Peterman, White Warrior Poet at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (1wjle)

18 Somebody needs to make a movie about this guy.

I finally saw him in a clip doing an interview.
He talks like Michael Jackson.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

19 10 For his part, Arday is blaming the university that gave him a Ph.D. for his fake and plagiarized paper, saying they hadn't given his autistic grifting ass enough "supervision."

This is not a completely unreasonable take.

Sure, he could have been honest and done scholarly work but... that's hard. They're supposed to check.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They have no incentive to do so with a DEI 'star'. One whiff of being accused as racist would have doomed their comfortable world. I once knew a grad student, DEI of course, that bragged her major professor wrote her dissertation. Public admin. Vile person, went to a name school, did not make it past pre tenure review and became a college administrator instead.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (E4rtv)

20 His title uses the word "teachers," just the plural of teacher, but he puts an apostrophe after it to make it a possessive.

You've heard of an Oxford comma? That's just a Cambridge apostrophe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

21 Sure, he could have been honest and done scholarly work but... that's hard. They're supposed to check.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (ExV1e)
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The fact that academics tolerate this sort of thing and have for while tells you that none of them do serious work. They know it's all a put-on and admire people willing to push the envelope.

The good news is that colleges are already closing down, so we can watch all these scholars clear tables in the near future.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (ZOv7s)

22 I'm thinking "Desperado."

_________________

Lyin' Eyes

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske)

23 >>is this a joke I'm not getting?

Probably. Yes.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (uzmqU)

24 meanwhile, the universities are facing 'cuts' and are whining about the 'cuts'. usually they get a STEM guy to do the whining.
it's hostage puppies all the way down.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (88C+u)

25 Maybe his whole research is seeing how much shit he can get away with and this has all been an op.

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (enNUy)

26 Vile person, went to a name school, did not make it past pre tenure review and became a college administrator instead.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (E4rtv)
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The University of Michigan is going to eliminate grades for the college of Literature, Science and Arts. All freshmen will get pass/fail grades for their first year so the poor dears don't stress themselves out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (ZOv7s)

27 Mark Rowley is an absolute bastard. A year or so ago, a reporter tried to ask him a basic question he didn't like, and Rowley just savagely struck the reporter's phone out of his hand and kept walking across the street without even looking back. That gesture said it all.

Posted by: Beverly at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (reMys)

28 The non verbal part always stuck out to me. A truly non verbal person does not all of a sudden turn into Chris Tucker. Christ Tucker was always Chris annoying motherfucking Tucker.

This guy reminds of of the worst of Ruby Rod. Right down to the shiny face.

Wait, isn't that how ace described garrett?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

29 Cambridge fell for this guy's scam. The left is so unbelievably gullible when it comes to their pets.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (Dv3i1)

30 I heard he was a Ghana prince that was forced to leave the country and was able to retrieve his fortune through the graciousness of an internet friend he met through an email.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (KC5Lt)

31 Does he wear eyeliner?

Posted by: beckster at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (kX27y)

32 I had obviously never heard of this guy , but when I started reading about his "disabilities ' and his athletic gears, I said "people believed this guy". You looked at it and knew he was full of shit , but the "intellectuals' believed every bit of it.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:10 PM (KY+FT)

33 I'm thinking "Desperado."

_________________

Lyin' Eyes
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske)

Why cant you see
What youre doing to me
When you don't believe
A word I say?

Posted by: The King at August 07, 2026 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

34 Speaking of reading, reading challenge in the ghetto.

https://tinyurl.com/59phn7yw
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (ndZc7)
___

Explains a lot.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:10 PM (3fZgy)

35 The fact that academics tolerate this sort of thing and have for while tells you that none of them do serious work. They know it's all a put-on and admire people willing to push the envelope.

The good news is that colleges are already closing down, so we can watch all these scholars clear tables in the near future.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Some do but most of them have their heads down and are just trying to finish their careers in peace because any doubter in the religion of Woke means unending misery from that point onwards. Rather like late Communism in Eastern Europe--you aren't killed exactly but admin moves your office to an obcure place, you get all intro classes, no summer money for research or teaching, and your colleagues actively shun you. Then come the bad reviews using vague words like not collegial, not open to diversity initiatives, etc. Seen it happen to friends of mine.

Some of the most vile people that you will ever meet outside of a prison are in academia. The only thing is that they like to espouse violence but not actually do it. Lawful evil I would suppose.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (E4rtv)

36 Isn't Asmodeus the wielder of the Ruby Rod?
Ruby Rose is the "nonbinary" chick in John Wick (which she was actually good in)

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (88C+u)

37 I find the claim to have summited Everest 18 times hard to believe.
Would you believe-- Maxwell Smart voice.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (Dciv4)

38 Lyin' Eyes
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske)
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Hotel California

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (ZOv7s)

39 ***So Simon & Schuster paid this "superstar" nobody $1.4 million in a fake advance.
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Nobody asks; How do these book publishers obtain this massive amount of payoff money they pass out to the front guard liars?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (xHEjv)

40 This clown didn't just sparingly throw in a handful of plagiarized quotes. EVEN the NYT's said it was dozens upon dozens of pages of plagiarism (and then tried unsuccessfully to play that off as no big deal).

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:13 PM (dIske)

41 Nobody asks; How do these book publishers obtain this massive amount of payoff money they pass out to the front guard liars?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (xHEjv)

By paying authors who sell books less.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:13 PM (ExV1e)

42 Some of the most vile people that you will ever meet outside of a prison are in academia.
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Guess it's a good thing I don't associate with either for the most part.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (3fZgy)

43 The University of Michigan is going to eliminate grades for the college of Literature, Science and Arts. All freshmen will get pass/fail grades for their first year so the poor dears don't stress themselves out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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U Cal is begging for reinstatement of SAT scores for admission.

I think the charade is about over and if Trump wanted Gen Z on his side, he can take their side against the institutions that scammed them. Defund their asses and drop college prices.

Same for the grad schools, return to a bachelor of laws instead of the pretentious J.D. end the stream of foreign coolie academic labor, and so on.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)

44 Xey is a disgrace to academia.

Posted by: Beans Velocci at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (wGerL)

45 Illiterate, fake and gay is no way to go through life son.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (2Cry5)

46 Hah! Snooker for money? Is that what you kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Rest Area Glory Hole at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (JM9I6)

47 Rather like late Communism in Eastern Europe--you aren't killed exactly but admin moves your office to an obcure place, you get all intro classes, no summer money for research or teaching, and your colleagues actively shun you.
---
My wife had a professor like that. Tenured, but they moved his office to the basement of a building that has since been condemned and demolished. He taught a class on "War and Revolution," and lots of people enrolled think it was something other than a washed-up Marxist who'd peaked in the 1970s and had now been put out to pasture.

The term paper was on oppression and my wife got a 4.0 by writing about how he, the professor, was oppressing her.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (ZOv7s)

48 >>Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
Probably Baba O'Reily

is this a joke I'm not getting?
Posted by: ace at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (1wjle)

I think it was meant to read , after listening to an Eagles song he was going to attempt suicide but aborted the attempt.

Posted by: Not an Eagles fan at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (KC5Lt)

49 They trusted him. I'd like to help him finish his career off with a size 11 boot.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (Q/FnY)

50 Explains a lot.
____

I didn't put this together before, but it does make sense that that billboard I pass on the way to work that says "Justice for Jveon" that his name is probably pronounced "Jay-vee-on"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (Dv3i1)

51 I think the charade is about over and if Trump wanted Gen Z on his side, he can take their side against the institutions that scammed them. Defund their asses and drop college prices.

Sue them for fraud and use the money to retire student loans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (ExV1e)

52
Honestly, I wish he'd scammed them even more brutally.

Because Fuck The Limeys.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 05:16 PM (y9nCu)

53 The amusing thing about paying Arday that amount of money for his book tells me that the powers that be had plans for him politically.

I don't see that happening now.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (dIske)

54 Same for the grad schools, return to a bachelor of laws instead of the pretentious J.D. end the stream of foreign coolie academic labor, and so on.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)
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China's locking itself down. New passport rules make it very difficult to leave, even for school. Probably because the population is collapsing and they want to keep as many rats aboard the ship as possible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ZOv7s)

55 if it was "Hotel California" he'd have likely gone through with it

Posted by: they play that shit too much at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (88C+u)

56 There was a time when universities were among our most trusted institutions. Many had within their crests “veritas” the Latin word for truth. They were revered for their honest pursuits of knowledge obtained through rigorous examination, questioning and debate. Nothing was left to chance, everything was scrutinized and the final product was a mind free of bias and schooled in a process of unbounded discovery and committed to the truthful pursuit of knowledge. That was really the basis for an education, everything else was tangential.

Then liberals and their left wing liege destroyed those institutions and wore them like a skin suit for credibility. The hollowed out the universities and used them to propagandize and build generations of brainwashed stormtroopers.

This is how you destroy a society, and they’re doing it on purpose.

There will come a time when we start piling up their corpses like cord wood, and burn them as we used to burn the semester end bonfires. Because they deserve it, and the symbolism is appropriate.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (h87v0)

57 I thought the coma part was a nice touch.

Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (VJX5o)

58 47 Rather like late Communism in Eastern Europe--you aren't killed exactly but admin moves your office to an obcure place, you get all intro classes, no summer money for research or teaching, and your colleagues actively shun you.

I didn't...I didn't get any cake.

Posted by: Milton Waddams at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (brIJB)

59 who in the UK get to appoint the heads of the Police force is it just the Prime Minister? or do the people get to elect them???

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (ubCxQ)

60 >>>I think it was meant to read , after listening to an Eagles song he was going to attempt suicide but aborted the attempt.

oh I kind of get it

or his idea of an eagles song is one plagiarized from The Who

Posted by: ace at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (1wjle)

61 OT but I want to post this before I forget it. It's kind of Twilight Zoney and Star Treky.

7 strangest objects discovered in the Universe that prove reality is weirder than fiction
These seven extraordinary objects show just how strange and wonderful the Universe can be.

https://tinyurl.com/23sd8htf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (ndZc7)

62 So the key to success in the modern world is a) be part of a privileged minority and b) lie your ass off. Wish I'd known this before working myself nearly to death.

Posted by: Hard work and integrity are for fools at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (TbWk/)

63 There will come a time when we start piling up their corpses like cord wood, and burn them as we used to burn the semester end bonfires. Because they deserve it, and the symbolism is appropriate.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (h87v0)
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Trump: American Franco.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)

64 Rather like late Communism in Eastern Europe--you aren't killed exactly but admin moves your office to an obcure place, you get all intro classes, no summer money for research or teaching, and your colleagues actively shun you.
---whig

At least I still have my stapler.

Posted by: Prof. Milton (tenured) at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (88C+u)

65 Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

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Weird, The Eagles have the opposite effect on me.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (lgGrU)

66 Next I bet you'll tell me Hunter Biden is also a fraud and can't paint worth a damn.

Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (aHw/h)

67 Ace
IT IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID !!!
American voters do not care about some British academic guilty of plagiarism they care about paying rent and buying food

Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (o7can)

68 Horde mind.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (88C+u)

69 The apostrophe was discovered in Africa

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (enNUy)

70 who in the UK get to appoint the heads of the Police force is it just the Prime Minister?

The head of Scotland Yard, known as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, is formally appointed by the Monarch (the British Crown). This appointment is made on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, who must also consider any recommendations from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).

Other Chief Constables are appointed by their respective Mayors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (ExV1e)

71 The book is due for publication next week by @simonschuster. Surely they have to pull it.

LOL, of course they won't. Don't be a dope.

Which section, though?
Biography or Fiction?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:21 PM (6ydKt)

72 Just a reminder to grab your copy of Long Live Death so you can see what happened the last time Antifa went after a democratic society.

Ace, my offer to send you a free copy is still open.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:21 PM (ZOv7s)

73 If I was crossing that bridge when Arday was contemplating suicide, and he was playing that Eagles song without head phones. I would have pushed the bastard.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:21 PM (dIske)

74 There are many more Jason Ardays and not just in academia.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (YwEeS)

75
So, when is Arday gonna marry the wheelchair girl from the thread below?

It's a match made in ~~Heaven~~ Lower Eastside West Gulpy Marsh.

I'm pretty sure that within three months of them getting hitched wheelchair girl will give birth to a full-grown Shiba Inu. For real, y'all!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (iJfKG)

76 The apostrophe was discovered in Africa
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (enNUy)
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STOLEN FROM OUR ANCESTORS CENTURIES AGO!

Posted by: Calypso Louie at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (ZOv7s)

77 >>>The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a Western system rotting under the weight of human deadwood. Not just academia, wokeness, welfare bureaucracies, "learing" centers, or the laptop manager class exposed during Covid, but an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness.

Please, Bitch.

Posted by: Government Cubical-dwelling Drone at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (rbvCR)

78 Wouldn't we be in much better stead if every Eagles fan jumped off a bridge?

Posted by: Just Axin' at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (JM9I6)

79 There are many more Jason Ardays and not just in academia.
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (YwEeS)
___

Yet, for some reason, they largely avoid the trades.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (3fZgy)

80 I think it was meant to read , after listening to an Eagles song he was going to attempt suicide but aborted the attempt.
Posted by: Not an Eagles fan at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (KC5Lt)

After hearing Hotel fucking California for the 675th fucking time, he decided to look for a taller bridge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, not an Eagles fan either at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

81 Novelist C.P. Snow once remarked that academic politics were so vicious because the stakes were so small...

Posted by: Beverly at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (reMys)

82 Jason, my man, stay strong. Sure, you may have embellished a fact or two ( who among us hasn't? ) , but your heart is pure and you'll bounce back from this, stronger and wiser, just like I did.

Posted by: Brian Williams at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (brIJB)

83 I'd say the Ruskies have us beat on this but, of course, they've had a lot more practice.

https://tinyurl.com/4nfkd8b6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (ndZc7)

84 China's locking itself down. New passport rules make it very difficult to leave, even for school. Probably because the population is collapsing and they want to keep as many rats aboard the ship as possible.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ZOv7s)

Hopefully they will soon be embroiled in a civil war and return to the days of warlords, opium dens and cannibalism.

Posted by: Wo Fat at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (45BvE)

85 Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (o7can)

Sean Penn will be by any moment now to accurately describe you.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (VHUov)

86 Wouldn't we be in much better stead if every Eagles fan jumped off a bridge?

Posted by: Just Axin' at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (JM9I6)

Yes, the band and the team.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (CNl8/)

87 The lefy will probably want to rename that day between Saturday and Monday to Arday.

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (LHPAg)

88
Nobody asks; How do these book publishers obtain this massive amount of payoff money they pass out to the front guard liars?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (xHEjv)

Aside from outright pass-through bribery, they conspire with the universities. They change some of the punctuation, reprint as a new edition then mandate that students purchase the new edition at full price rather than the old edition in the used section of the student bookstore at 60% off.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (y9nCu)

89 Wait, I take it back.
The only way to truly do his story justice is with a 20 episode tv series.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

90 His title uses the word "teachers," just the plural of teacher, but he puts an apostrophe after it to make it a possessive. And then he does that in the entire paper, too.

----

If you weren't so racist you would understand that in my culture teacher's is always possessive because the teacher's always possess knowledge.

Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (lgGrU)

91 Leftists are good at book money laundering
Get $1M for 5,000 books and no one reads them

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 05:26 PM (Ia/+0)

92 >> Trump: American Franco.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)

I never felt this pack of liberals and their filth who have subverted our institutions had anything but ill intent. I watched as honest people, many good intentioned, let this virus roll over them and destroy our country like a disease. It’s about time they listen to the people who said we should hang a few of them from lampposts and put a sign on them that reads “Don’t be Me”.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (h87v0)

93
Paki-Turkiyaya'-Saudi alliance!

Sunni v. Shia out on the table and official, now that Iran is a shell of its old self.

Fun to see these guys decide amongst themselves whose in charge, this looks more like a clusterfuck recipe than anything else.

Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (Y8DZL)

94 Off not totally true sock

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (KC5Lt)

95 The head of Scotland Yard, known as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, is formally appointed by the Monarch (the British Crown). This appointment is made on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, who must also consider any recommendations from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).

Other Chief Constables are appointed by their respective Mayors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (ExV1e)

Thanks

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (ubCxQ)

96 87 The lefy will probably want to rename that day between Saturday and Monday to Arday.
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (LHPAg

_________________________

Nope, that's a singular annual holiday...aka "Talk Like a Pirate Day." Kind of fitting.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (dIske)

97 Original Iron Maiden guitarist Denis Stratton claims he was kicked out of the band because he liked to listen to The Eagles.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (CNl8/)

98 The only way to truly do his story justice is with a 20 episode tv series.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

We'll do it but we're going to make Arday a white, Christian, male serial killer from Alabama. -- Amazon Studios

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (ExV1e)

99 TL;DR
Fabulists are fabulous.

Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (q177U)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (odBC9)

101 Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
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He should have listened to "Wasted Time", or "Teenage Hell". Instead, he probably listened to "Take it Easy" and thus he lived on.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (TN0g+)

102 Remember though, it's not a lie...if *you* believe it.

https://tinyurl.com/5crncuph

Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (2qSHg)

103 So did he have a playlist going on his earbuds as he was prepared to jump to his death?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (XvL8K)

104 >>>But the "teachers'" type

typo

(ironically)

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (odBC9)

105 >>>Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said officers "dropped the ball" when they looked into a complaint made against journalist Jack Grove over his attempts to contact Prof Jason Arday.

WTF? You drop the ball by failing to do something, not by doing something embarrassing that you are later sheepish about.

Retards can't even CYA right.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (dK+Kv)

106 Well, if we're going to be talking old songs . . .

https://tinyurl.com/ywuvbv2h

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (ndZc7)

107 My house is so clean. I am going to ban everyone from coming back inside.

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 05:29 PM (ZdaMQ)

108 >>>- Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

That's a strange combination of words right there.

Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 05:29 PM (q177U)

109 Women have ruined publishing. I left my book club because everyone was offended I called the books clit lit. Can't say chick lit anymore. Slit lit didn't fly either. So I just found something else to do. My husband hates going to B&N with me. "Clit lit clit lit clit lit"

Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:29 PM (enNUy)

110 Speaking of Eagles, see nic.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (KC5Lt)

111
Original Iron Maiden guitarist Denis Stratton claims he was kicked out of the band because he liked to listen to The Eagles.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (CNl8/)

He got off light.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (y9nCu)

112 Original Iron Maiden guitarist Denis Stratton claims he was kicked out of the band because he liked to listen to The Eagles.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (CNl8/)

That's a legit reason.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (dK+Kv)

113 Knowledge is Good.

Posted by: Emil Faber at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (JM9I6)

114 >>>Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir,"

Did he get that money? Or did the publisher pledge to pay him that money upon publication (and on fulfilment of whatever other terms).

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (odBC9)

115 84 China's locking itself down. New passport rules make it very difficult to leave, even for school. Probably because the population is collapsing and they want to keep as many rats aboard the ship as possible.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ZOv7s)

Hopefully they will soon be embroiled in a civil war and return to the days of warlords, opium dens and cannibalism.
Posted by: Wo Fat at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (45BvE)

I believe in the theory that china only has about 500 million not over a billion since they are so corrupt that the regional Gov forged how large their Population really was do they could stuff their pockets with from funds meant to go to the people.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (ubCxQ)

116 Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (o7can)

There's no noodle soup for you here
youtu.be/H_r2wBb4eOo

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (88C+u)

117 And btw muslims are playing the same game they’ve seen their liberal sherpas play. And now they are about to wear them as a skin suit. They have nothing but ill intent for our nation and populace. They see it as some type of sick, twisted payback for all their alleged grievances. They are going to crawl inside our institutions and destroy them from the inside out. They’re not even hiding it much anymore. They are satans worker bees.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (h87v0)

118 We'll do it but we're going to make Arday a white, Christian, male serial killer from Alabama. -- Amazon Studios
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (ExV1e)
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Ironically, I bet they'd find a huge audience for a show about a white Southern, Christian male who lies his way to the highest levels of academia. I'd watch it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (ZOv7s)

119 I do really like Joe Walsh.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (KC5Lt)

120 103 So did he have a playlist going on his earbuds as he was prepared to jump to his death?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (XvL8K)

__________________________

Get with the program, Biff. Earbuds and earphones are racist. You have to let that drumbeat resonate in everyone's ears within a 2 mile radius to prove your blackness.

Sincerely,
CEO and Janitor of Carnival Cruise Lines

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (dIske)

121 Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
20h

The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a ~~Western~~ Soviet system rotting under the weight of human deadwood. Not just academia, wokeness, welfare bureaucracies, "learing" centers, or the laptop manager class exposed during Covid, but an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness. The real work is left to a shrinking productive minority forced to carry everyone else.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (JvZF+)

122 Life's Been Good is a great song.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (KC5Lt)

123 Come on, man. I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!

Posted by: The Dude at August 07, 2026 05:32 PM (45BvE)

124 The Five is talking about him right now.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 05:32 PM (Cqx++)

125 Eagle painting is nice, polynikes, have you done Ann Elk?

Posted by: Something Completely Different at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (JM9I6)

126 Summit of Everest? The Blade may be going to Bass Camp 1 on Everest in October. I’ll see if Arday is there …

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)

127 I believe in the theory that china only has about 500 million not over a billion since they are so corrupt that the regional Gov forged how large their Population really was do they could stuff their pockets with from funds meant to go to the people.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (ubCxQ)
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I saw a youtuber say that the official numbers for births and the fertility rate don't add up, and that if you go by the birth rate, there are only 1 billion.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (ZOv7s)

128 Where da white wimmins at?

Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (Av6i5)

129 Also song related.

https://tinyurl.com/awn67wrs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (ndZc7)

130 Oh, and btw, if getting 3 or 4 emails is considered harrassment....McAfee better start getting out the checkbook.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (dIske)

131 Where da white wimmins at?
Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (Av6i5)

Shouldn't that be white wimmin's?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (ExV1e)

132 Life's Been Good is a great song.
Posted by: polynikes
__________

That whole album is good, but his stuff with the James Gang is way better.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (XvL8K)

133 China is building a massive navy, and military capability. But they’re not going to have the foot soldiers, at least reliable military ones, to fill their ranks.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Fi4DJ)

134 The Five is covering this now.
Also, top article at zerohedge., I know.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)

135 The Five is covering this now.
Also, top article at zerohedge., I know.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)

Clearly demonstrating that there is nothing of consequence happening in the world.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:36 PM (ExV1e)

136 I like Joe Walsh and Don Felder. But I fucking hate the Iggles.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 05:36 PM (0aYVJ)

137 Chuck Norris is scared of this guy. That’s how amazing he is.

Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (Bz1XI)

138 Never heard of this guy till I read about him here... I consider my self lucky that I didn't

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (FtULh)

139 Jason Arday has the same look in his eyes as a retarded dude I had to ride the school bus with. He was in special ed, across the hall from our junior high classes and leered at girls as often as possible.

The only difference I see is Jason's eyes are not like Marty Feldman's when the school bus guy would try to look under our dresses.

He had to sit behind the bus driver, who once was my friend's big brother. We'd yell when he got perverted, that he was looking at us and Jimmy would tell him to turn around.

He also worked on a chicken farm near his house and often had chicken sheet on his arm because he never bathed.

You can see, easily, the trauma I endured until I could drive myself and, later, go to college. It's amazing I survived.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (hzuYO)

140 > Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
--------------
Honestly... should have let it go through. Less painful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (2Cry5)

141 Clearly demonstrating that there is nothing of consequence happening in the world.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:36 PM (ExV1e)

Dog days of August....

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Sco7b)

142 James Gang-great!
Walsh solo-good!
Eagles-Pffffffft!

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slirrup at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (JM9I6)

143 It's got to be a pain if you are an intelligent educated person of African descent and see stupid white people fawn over fraudulent nitwits.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (KY+FT)

144 I rode through the desert on a horse with no name...and then I named it!

Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Riz8t)

145 Never heard of this guy till I read about him here... I consider my self lucky that I didn't

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (FtULh)

I hope that I never have to hear about him again after this week.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (CNl8/)

146 Dog days of August....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Sco7b)

I saw some polling that said the Democrats were gonna pick up 600 seats in the Senate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ExV1e)

147 I saw a youtuber say that the official numbers for births and the fertility rate don't add up, and that if you go by the birth rate, there are only 1 billion.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (ZOv7s)

The one I saw she said it was about 500 million and she found the numbers of how many Diapers vs Adult Diapers and how they are headed for disaster.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ubCxQ)

148 126 Summit of Everest? The Blade may be going to Bass Camp 1 on Everest in October. I’ll see if Arday is there …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)
----------
Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening. Read up on it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (brIJB)

149 Nobody asks; How do these book publishers obtain this massive amount of payoff money they pass out to the front guard liars?

Posted by: Braenyard

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It's a closed system. They pay according to the narrative, and then Cambridge pumps up all their books. Reviews, blurbs, etc. Like a commie central committee deciding who gets paid, and what the public gets to buy.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (aDhTQ)

150 It's the Apacolypse, you might as well have some fun.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8r7vn8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ndZc7)

151 To paraphrase Adam Carolla are his supporters liars or retards?

Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Bz1XI)

152 It's got to be a pain if you are an intelligent educated person of African descent and see stupid white people fawn over fraudulent nitwits.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (KY+FT)

Obama ain't far off from Arday.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (KC5Lt)

153 ..."an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness. The real work is left to a shrinking productive minority forced to carry everyone else."

Can we get this inscribed in marble somewhere on the Washington Mall?

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)

154 By the time Arday started on his master's degree, he writes, he was reading at about the same level as his 3-year-old daughter.

----------------

This doesn't say much for him, but it REALLY doesn't say much for the university that gave a bachelor's to an illiterate.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (2UnvF)

155 The rhyme potential for arday is super. I’m expecting big things here.

Posted by: H at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (H1yGV)

156 From TWIW:

232 That chicken in the last video? Just call her a hysteric and lock her bony ass up in a mental institution. She'll get all the attention she craves, and we won't have to suffer through any more of her self-serving videos.

I believe she is what Paul Joseph Watson would call a "twat." [Say it with his accent. It works better that way.]
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (2nJ9I)

It was pop music that taught me that Brits rhyme 'twat' with 'that' and 'chat':

Lily Allen - Alfie (Explicit Version)
https://youtu.be/OFF7dccul7o

Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Sy6m/)

157 I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese population was 800 million to on billion. The one child policy plus COVID did a lot of damage

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (KY+FT)

158 relatedly:

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
3h
Inevitable

Geiger Capital
@Geiger_Capital
4h
Absolutely incredible…

University of California professors are now asking the school to reinstate the SAT for admissions because their new students are unable to do high school-level work.

They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (odBC9)

159 Can we get this inscribed in marble somewhere on the Washington Mall?
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)

I'd rather have it tattooed, mirrored, on the forehead of every member of Congress.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (ExV1e)

160 Obligatory Eagles movie scene:

https://tinyurl.com/4s62e4xr

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (XvL8K)

161 151 To paraphrase Adam Carolla are his supporters liars or retards?

Oh come on!

Posted by: The power of and at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (Riz8t)

162 To paraphrase Adam Carolla are his supporters liars or retards?
Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Bz1XI)

I think Corolla would have used Half Tards. He's proud he coined that insult.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (KC5Lt)

163 It is fascinating how so many people take Chinese data at their word. Oh wow 9% gdp growth for 30 years in a row. Way to go guys! Communism is so fetch.

Never questioning any of it.

Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (Bz1XI)

164 T-storm heading my way

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)

165 I was watching a video on extraterrestrial life where the speaker he made the same arguments I have about the statistical improbability of life appearing anywhere considering how many things had to go just right for us to be here.

And then, interestingly he takes it a step further saying either the math is wrong or we got absurdly lucky and either answer is problematic.

I've seen a few atheist types get to this point, because this is exactly where the math of biology and astronomy takes you. And if you are a theist you have answer but if you are an atheist it leaves you in an odd spot where you have to thrash around for answers...ancient aliens planted us? our understanding of biology is completely wrong? reality isn't and we are living in a simulation?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (sKqQm)

166 133 China is building a massive navy, and military capability. But they’re not going to have the foot soldiers, at least reliable military ones, to fill their ranks.
Posted by: Vengeance

drones, ai, and bots

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (aDhTQ)

167 "defended himself by arguing that he had not received adequate supervision during his PhD given his autism and learning disabilities."

He should not have been granted a degree. That's on the university. To that extent, he's got a valid point.

Posted by: gp at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (Jr5Lq)

168 Obligatory James Gang live:

https://youtu.be/zo0vBdlWQs0

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (brIJB)

169 I saw some polling that said the Democrats were gonna pick up 600 seats in the Senate.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ExV1e)

Arday inspired me and I can now pull a Greyhound bus 50 feet using only my dong!!

I did cut up 2 watermelons for my friends. They have kids so that's not easy for them to do.

And Ralphy got an allergy shot at the vet. This lady walked out with no animal wiping her eyes. I talk with her a minute to console her. That was sad.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (Sco7b)

170 They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".

Cambridge MA recently turned off their SpotShotter system because "it was getting too many black and brown people arrested". Now...who are the most likely people to get shot in Cambridge MA? And I'll give you a hint it isn't connected Cambridge MA government officials.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (sKqQm)

171 They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".
Posted by: m

Which most students couldn't spell correctly....

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (DZ9Lv)

172 BBC

Cambridge to review process for hiring senior academics after Jason Arday resignation

Among the claims by Arday that have been viewed as outlandish is one, made in an interview with the Guardian, that he was paid "1.4 million" for his memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, due to be released next week. He did not specify the currency.

While not inconceivable, publishing insiders cast doubt on a figure such as Arday being able to attract such a large advance payment.

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (odBC9)

173 Joe Walsh is Ringo Starr's brother-in-law.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (CNl8/)

174 You have to be huffing Testor's Glue (the old kind before they detoxified it) out of a small paper sack to really enjoy the Iggles.

Posted by: Musik Kal at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (JM9I6)

175 Federal Judge Rejects SPLC's Vindictive Prosecution Claim in Blistering Order

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (Wgtgv)

176 Arday humbly omitted several of his inventions, including the snort laugh, the semi colon, and rubbing your chin when thinking.

Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (lCppi)

177 @167

True. If your PhD student fails his defense, it's the mentor who really failed.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (Riz8t)

178 I saw some polling that said the Democrats were gonna pick up 600 seats in the Senate.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

No, no, no - that poll said the 600 Dems were picking at their seats!

Completely different.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (w+2cP)

179 Hasan chop!

>>@HoffmanJess

>>BREAKING: University of Washington cancels Hasan Piker event

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)

180 Good advice.

https://tinyurl.com/u43bvjtd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (ndZc7)

181 133 China is building a massive navy,

They had two planes fall off the flight deck of their aircraft carrier this week in separate incidents.

Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (AGz65)

182 Hustling snooker is what they call it in academia when you're the towel boy at the bathhouse.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (iySPJ)

183 From X--our DEI ruling class are frauds.

Luke Rosiak@lukerosiak
The only lesson from Jason Arday can be recognition that this is going on everywhere. This is the dissertation of a University of Maryland campus president. She stole someone else's dissertation and changed the name of the field. Maryland has known this for a year.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (E4rtv)

184 >> China is building a massive navy,

out of Melamine.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (uzmqU)

185 If your PhD student fails his defense, it's the mentor who really failed.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (Riz8t)

Which is why you only have friends who don't give a shit about the value of a PhD to sit that stage. -- PhD Mentors

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (ExV1e)

186 @165

>>I've seen a few atheist types get to this point, because this is exactly where the math of biology and astronomy takes you.

Let's forget about all of the minor miracles it took for use to be here.

We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.

So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.

We know what conditions are necessary, which could conceivably be replicated on another planet.

But not the mechanism of action.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (XV/Pl)

187 All Jason Arday needs is tight deadlines, loose standards, and a warm place to copy-and-paste.

Posted by: Earl Butz at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (Av6i5)

188 It just occurred to me that when I was a student all the sheets of paper that I did my writing on was...*horrors*...white!!!!!

No wonder I'm a racist.

I guess we could in future write only on black paper. But then the ink would have to be...*horrors again!!!*...white!.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (Rl+wE)

189 Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening.
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I get Acute Mountain Sickness everytime I hear "Mississippi Queen".

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (TN0g+)

190 >>They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".

Also, to eliminate accountability in secondary education.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (uzmqU)

191 if you are an atheist it leaves you in an odd spot where you have to thrash around for answers...
Posted by: 18-1

Well, no, you just say "I don't know. I don't have enough information" and go on about your day.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (DZ9Lv)

192 Hasan chop!

>>@HoffmanJess

>>BREAKING: University of Washington cancels Hasan Piker event
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)

They found out that he'd once eaten a breakfast bagel and won't promote Zionists like that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)

193 Summit of Everest? The Blade may be going to Bass Camp 1 on Everest in October. I’ll see if Arday is there …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)
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Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening. Read up on it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (brIJB)

And absolutely, positively no Smoke on the Water.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (dK+Kv)

194 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ExV1e)

Wow. It is a slow news day.

The Five. A NZ politician was on the air in her bathroom with underwear drying.

CNN - Democrats unity rally - Tapper

MS Now -Talerico

CBC - Canadian politics

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (Sco7b)

195 "Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

I'm thinking "Desperado."

I'm thinking "Take it to the Limit"

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (lJ0H4)

196 Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (sKqQm)

Yeah the mathematical odds of a random combination of chemicals creating life is 10 to about 25 zeroes . Even with the amount of possible X planets , for it to happen more than once is astronomical ( pun intended) . For it to happen 10 to 1000 times is next to impossible.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (KC5Lt)

197 You fucked up -- you trusted me!

Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (Av6i5)

198 166 133 China is building a massive navy, and military capability. But they’re not going to have the foot soldiers, at least reliable military ones, to fill their ranks.
Posted by: Vengeance

drones, ai, and bots
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (aDhTQ)

The Problem with China's Military it's so corrupt, Their Carrier doesn't work, The Radar or it's missiles are all garbage and the US proved this with what happened in Iran and South America. I even hear that their Nukes missiles were filled with water or Cement and the Generals pocketed the money and they were later Killed, same with the guy that was in charge of the Steath fighter project he disappeared

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (ubCxQ)

199 I get Acute Mountain Sickness everytime I hear "Mississippi Queen".
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (TN0g+)

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I know what you mean.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (2UnvF)

200 200

Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (odBC9)

201 BREAKING: University of Washington cancels Hasan Piker event
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)

When you'v e lost the socialist, Palestinian -loving Huskies....

Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (lCppi)

202 148 126 Summit of Everest? The Blade may be going to Bass Camp 1 on Everest in October. I’ll see if Arday is there …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)
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Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening. Read up on it.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (brIJB)
——

Yea. BC1 is at 17500 feet, so it’s not that bad. I ain’t climbing there. Taking a heli. I’ve been to 14k feet or close several times before and suffered no ill effects, and even did strenuous activity at that altitude (hiking, horseback riding, skiing, etc).

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (i+vnO)

203 What some knumbnutz professor in England does is so far down my list of concerns I can't find it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (xHEjv)

204 We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

That's quite a leap in logic you got there.
"We have no idea how X process works so the idea it happens anywhere else in the Universe is silly." Ok....

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (DZ9Lv)

205 175 Federal Judge Rejects SPLC's Vindictive Prosecution Claim in Blistering Order

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (Wgtgv)

I actually saw an SPLC commercial on MS Now.
That was crazy.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (Sco7b)

206 >>They found out that he'd once eaten a breakfast bagel and won't promote Zionists like that.

If possible, he seems to be coming more unhinged since El Sayed won his primary. He's now threatening Democrats who won't vote for this Muslim POS and telling Jews they need to go back to Auschwitz.

He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

207 @196

>>Yeah the mathematical odds of a random combination of chemicals creating life is 10 to about 25 zeroes .

You can't put any odds on it because no one knows what the mechanism of action is to get organic life.

Until that is known, no one can actually say if there could potentially be organic life, let alone intelligent life.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (XV/Pl)

208 I like some of the Eagles music but not the Brillo Hair Dude Henley. Arrogant twat.

I liked Glenn Frey in his youth (Lyin' Eyes). Mostly because I liked guys of the 1970's who looked like that. No other reason at the time. Far from my favorite band.

I should go be productive as I have an 11mo old grandgirl visiting most of tomorrow. Putting her in the crib in the kid's room for her nap as she's a wild girl in her pack and play now where she used to nap by the fire.

That guest room looks like a Romanian orphanage as no one else uses it (queen bed and a twin blow up mattress plus the crib).

Thinking I have asthma/allergies from the smokey air from Oregon and WA and I am staying inside as it's HOT.

I hate this time of year! Want it to be over!!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (hzuYO)

209 University of California professors are now asking the school to reinstate the SAT for admissions because their new students are unable to do high school-level work.

If you can spell SAT correctly, I think you get in.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (KAa/S)

210 File under half full, Data is from FRED which is Fed. Reserve St. Louis.
========
Geiger Capital
@Geiger_Capital
·
7h
Holy shit.

Since Trump took office, 1.3 Million foreign-born workers (legal and illegal) have lost a job. Meanwhile, 1.7 Million native-born Americans have gained a job.

A sharp reversal of the last few years.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (E4rtv)

211 Leftists then: "We need standardized tests so that qualified minorities can prove they're equal to whites despite racist teachers giving minorities unfairly low grades!"

Leftists now: "Standardized tests are racist, because...well, just because, that's why!"

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (Av6i5)

212 What some knumbnutz professor in England does is so far down my list of concerns I can't find it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (xHEjv)

Sigh. -- Isaac Newton

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (ExV1e)

213 Charles Curran
@charliebcurran
Aug 6
The year is 2030. Claude 9 has gone rogue and taken control of one billion Sexbots.
They call it the Goonpocalypse.

https://tinyurl.com/4wzfaw2k

(ooh, Alex Jones got his hair back!)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (rbvCR)

214 Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (DZ9Lv)

I thought you said would just move on.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (KC5Lt)

215 He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

He was born in New Jersey.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ExV1e)

216 Been struck down by testicular cancer (though this changes in the book to brain cancer)

Well, I would have assumed colon cancer, since his head's up his ....

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (kU0PQ)

217 ——

Yea. BC1 is at 17500 feet, so it’s not that bad. I ain’t climbing there. Taking a heli. I’ve been to 14k feet or close several times before and suffered no ill effects, and even did strenuous activity at that altitude (hiking, horseback riding, skiing, etc).

Posted by: Elric the Blade
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You're a lot older now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (xHEjv)

218 "You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do."

Yeah, that was an astonishingly vague and stilted thing to say.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (4NO2D)

219 He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw
========
Prison will sort him right out. Charge him as an unregistered foreign agent. Same with TuCa and others. Then you can offer them a deal, renounce US citizenship or go to jail.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv)

220 215 He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

He was born in New Jersey.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ExV1e)

Then, deported from New Jersey,

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (FtULh)

221 They found out that he'd once eaten a breakfast bagel and won't promote Zionists like that.

If possible, he seems to be coming more unhinged since El Sayed won his primary. He's now threatening Democrats who won't vote for this Muslim POS and telling Jews they need to go back to Auschwitz.

He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

——

He was born here, anchor baby

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:54 PM (i+vnO)

222 Until that is known, no one can actually say if there could potentially be organic life, let alone intelligent life.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (XV/Pl)

LOL. Obviously you *can* say it. Unless morons don't count.

Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 05:54 PM (AGz65)

223 I'm not their biggest fan ever but The Eagles - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 is a damn good listen, especially on road trips.

And Hotel California is one of many of the 1970s masterpiece albums by so many great bands. I must've listened to it 100 times on CD Walkman when i was a teenager.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (6ydKt)

224 We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

It's quite simple. Lightning struck a slime pit and a slug oozed out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (ndZc7)

225 215 He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

He was born in New Jersey.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
----

Well, a new vista will be an eventful trip for him.
Don't forget to cancel his re-entry permit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (xHEjv)

226 Leftists now: "Standardized tests are racist, because...well, just because, that's why!"

Reminds me of Bobby Finn: https://tinyurl.com/2udm4c2k

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (sKqQm)

227 Now they have no hope of recovering their advance, true.

However, if things had worked out the way they planned, then maybe this inspirational book book would have become a classic and part of the school curriculum, like Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mockingbird.

Probably some people in the US and the UK feel that it is time to clear the curriculum of the contributions of dead white authors. Also, nonfiction is better than fiction.

For controlling the school curriculum, 1.4 million is nothing.

Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (+F4bv)

228 >>He was born in New Jersey.

Ok, hang him.

He's basically a rep of the Muslim Brotherhood and so is El Sayed. At some point and it better be soon we are going to have to admit we are being invaded by Islamic terrorists and stop them.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (viF8m)

229 Speaking of reading, reading challenge in the ghetto.
https://tinyurl.com/59phn7yw
___
Explains a lot.

I'll be a bit more forgiving. That sentence contained a lot of words that she had obviously never encountered (and at her age should have) but at least she gave each one a shot using English phonetic rules.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (vTZFs)

230 Then send him back to New Jersey. That is an even worse punishment.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (CNl8/)

231 Yeah the mathematical odds of a random combination of chemicals creating life is 10 to about 25 zeroes .

That's pretty exact for something we have no idea about.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (KAa/S)

232 Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (XV/Pl)

You can put odds on anything if you've have enough information on the variables. Mathematicians far better than me and I assume you are those that came up with that number based on what mathematicians do.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (KC5Lt)

233 And Hotel California is one of many of the 1970s masterpiece albums by so many great bands. I must've listened to it 100 times on CD Walkman when i was a teenager.
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I really enjoyed The Long Run. I think its one of those "put the album on and let it play" works that not many bands ever pulled off once, much less the two or three times that The Eagles did so.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)

234 Yea. BC1 is at 17500 feet, so it’s not that bad. I ain’t climbing there. Taking a heli. I’ve been to 14k feet or close several times before and suffered no ill effects, and even did strenuous activity at that altitude (hiking, horseback riding, skiing, etc).

Posted by: Elric the Blade
---

You're a lot older now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (xHEjv)
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Hiked and horseback riding at 14k in the Andes two years ago! Believe it or not, my boomer mom did it with us.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:57 PM (i+vnO)

235 I thought you said would just move on.
Posted by: polynikes

I did. And then I came to Quite A Leap. It was breathtaking in its destructive simplicity. I had to comment before pondering a haiku in its honor. Or maybe a limerick.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:57 PM (DZ9Lv)

236 We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Which means it is impossible, right? Right?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:58 PM (rbvCR)

237 I had to comment before pondering a haiku in its honor. Or maybe a limerick.
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Personally I believe there are far too many limericks found at this blog and far too few haiku.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (TN0g+)

238 Simon & Shuster? Oh, I thought you meant a publisher like Random House. Eh, nobody intelligent submits books there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (5TQCN)

239 Well, no, you just say "I don't know. I don't have enough information" and go on about your day.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
_________

But to be an atheist, you've arrived at the ultimate answer: you live in a universe devoid of purpose and you will one day simply cease to exist, like a burst bubble. I don't see how any atheists who are honest with themselves can then simply go about their day. Seems to me that 99.99% instead start grasping for some purpose that they deny exists.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 06:00 PM (XvL8K)

240 The fact that you are not climbing there, and taking a helicopter, increases the risk if not mistaken.

Acclimatization takes time. Altitude sickness sucks. It's basically a continuum from feeling like shit all the way to HAPE and HACE. Just huff on some oxygen at night maybe. Sleeping problematic for most people over 10k after a while, flatlanders anyway

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 06:00 PM (7j7XD)

241 At the Ace of Spades
Far too many limericks
Far too few haiku

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

242 "We can't figure it out, therefore it must be a miracle" is the underlying basis of all religious notions.

Then someone figures it out.

The number of things that 200 years ago seemed completely inexplicable, utterly impossible or beyond imagination yet which today are commonplace, self-evident or easily grasped are almost innumerable.

I'd be willing to wager that someone makes life in a test-tube and/or we find organic life originating outside of Earth, sometime in the next few decades.

Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:01 PM (Av6i5)

243 Personally I believe there are far too many limericks found at this blog and far too few haiku.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (TN0g+)

Tired bikini
Boobs embrace autumn wearing
Cashmere sweater sets.

-- Elisabeth Dale

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:01 PM (ExV1e)

244 It doesn't matter where your from, start following Islam and your brainwashed,

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)

245
I really enjoyed The Long Run. I think its one of those "put the album on and let it play" works that not many bands ever pulled off once, much less the two or three times that The Eagles did so.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)

Oh yeah, a rare thing these days.

I got used to listening to entire albums starting with having a cassette Walkman. I wore that thing out. No skipping technology until later on, so you got used to listening to the entire tape.

Any Led Zeppelin album, or a few Pink Floyd albums (you know the ones), and others I can't remember right now.

Listening to an entire album would be torture for kids today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)

246 Which means it is impossible, right? Right?

Before Professor Arday showed up, yes. Yes, it was.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (KAa/S)

247 Lol...GatewayPundit

Madmani's nickname is Mayor Zoflake since he's so thin-skinned.

When the future of communism is on your shoulders....

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)

248 Obama ain't far off from Arday.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (KC5Lt)

As was noted in Ace's original post.
I'm more thinking of Van Jones. He got into the position he's at by canoodling with 9/11 troofers (which Obama didn't do, although interestingly Hillary! did). But Jones didn't touch that stuff after Obama got elected.
I suspect that Jones and Obama both are smarter than Hillary.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:04 PM (88C+u)

249 Aliens: https://youtu.be/3YIszhdByuA

Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 06:04 PM (AGz65)

250 Any Led Zeppelin album, or a few Pink Floyd albums (you know the ones), and others I can't remember right now.

Listening to an entire album would be torture for kids today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)

Just listen to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", all 26 minutes and 11 seconds of it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (ExV1e)

251 Madmani's nickname is Mayor Zoflake since he's so thin-skinned.

When the future of communism is on your shoulders....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)

I guess he believed he was the next coming.. Or the 12th Imam in his case... reality sucks ..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (FtULh)

252 Listening to an entire album would be torture for kids today.
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Agreed! And many adults have become just as bad. I recently went to a concert with 2 friends of mine. Afterwards I told my self there's going to be a "No checking your phones" rule IF we ever go to another one--they each were watching their 2-inch screen as much as they were the live bands and live crowd.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (TN0g+)

253 @236

>>Which means it is impossible, right? Right?

Yeah, pretty much.

The number of miracles required to just get to the conditions where additional miracles can happen is quite large.

A Universe From Nothing being the initial miracle.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (XV/Pl)

254 Been struck down by testicular cancer (though this changes in the book to brain cancer)

Well, I would have assumed colon cancer, since his head's up his ....
Posted by: GWB

How do you think it spread to his brain so quickly?

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (VHUov)

255 >> It doesn't matter where your from, start following Islam and your brainwashed,

Piker was born in NJ to Turkish parents. He was raised in Turkey. He didn't return to the US until he went to college. He's about as American as Ilhan Omar.

All he does all day is preach about violence against anyone who doesn't agree with a Muslim takeover of the US. I don't give a shit if he was born at Mount Vernon, he's an anti-American piece of shit and even the left is starting to realize it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (viF8m)

256 [Listening to an entire album would be torture for kids today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

Al..bum?

Posted by: kids today at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (Av6i5)

257
Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.

That's the biggest whopper of them all. Not for nothing are Eagles' songs deemed "gateway accompaniment to slipping this mortal coil by your own hand."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (ixS3i)

258 Yeah the thing is, most of this stuff was so obviously fake and nonsense, but they didn't care. They got what they wanted with him: their virtue display. Look at how good we are, we have a swarthy young professor who writes papers by interviewing himself and having a young female student write them up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (K32Fz)

259 I don't see how any atheists who are honest with themselves can then simply go about their day. Seems to me that 99.99% instead start grasping for some purpose that they deny exists.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

There's talk that the AI bros believe that they are midwifing a new god who, unlike haShem, will exist.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (88C+u)

260 You know what's a good listen, the entire album of Edward Sharp and The Magnetic Zeros.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 06:07 PM (XV/Pl)

261 There's talk that the AI bros believe that they are midwifing a new god who, unlike haShem, will exist.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (88C+u)

If they believe that then they've been huffing their own farts for too long.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (ExV1e)

262 Personally I believe there are far too many limericks found at this blog and far too few haiku.
Posted by: Crusader

Tired bikini
Boobs embrace autumn wearing
Cashmere sweater sets.

-- Elisabeth Dale
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

+1 for the seasonal reference. That usually gets left out.

Posted by: certified haiku inspector at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (VHUov)

263
He's got the eyes of Judge Doom from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (ixS3i)

264 I tried Hungry Howies Pizza.

It's not too bad.
They have a similar menu to Marcos, but more.

They sell flatbreads (which is what I'm eating and it's not bad.
Also Deep Dish rectangles, and Detroit Deep Dish (the tomato sauce is on top of the cheese and toppings).

Also sandwiches made of folded over pizza dough, a calzonewich by the looks of it.

I'll probably order from them again and try a pizza or deep dish.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

265 Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
Probably Baba O'Reily"

Who?

Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (XuXeR)

266
Well, that was predictable. Then: "Oh, no! We just oppose the Zionists." Now: "Kill the Jews!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (O0L8i)

267 Time to go drink some whiskey and make a pizza. Y'all be good to each other.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (ExV1e)

268 If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (yEz+x)

269
O, haiku, schmiku!
So you can count to seven
Syllables. Big whoop!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:10 PM (ixS3i)

270 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (brIJB)

271 NOOD BIDEN.

Only sort of about Biden.

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (VHUov)

272 f you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (yEz+x)

Unfortunately these people start to actually believe their lies. That's why they continue to do it. Really mentally ill.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (KC5Lt)

273 @167

>>Time to go drink some whiskey and make a pizza. Y'all be good to each other.

I think it's, drink whiskey, smoke cigars and play with dynamite.

Or at least that's what Hunter S. Thompson would do, and who are we to argue with that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (XV/Pl)

274 I’m honestly not even mad at this guy. The people he’s grifting off are leftist shitlibs retards that deserve every bad thing that happens to them

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 07, 2026 06:13 PM (P4bJX)

275 Alien evolution.

https://youtu.be/jN7OXuTlm3k

Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 06:14 PM (AGz65)

276 What passing Buddhist pilgrims hung those prayer flags at the *very top* of Mount Everest?

Or did Arday do that too?

Posted by: Just reporting at August 07, 2026 06:16 PM (Gf5dx)

277 For his part, Arday is blaming the university that gave him a Ph.D. for his fake and plagiarized paper, saying they hadn't given his autistic grifting ass enough "supervision."

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I may be a bit late with this and someone has already noted that anti-plagiarism software has been around for a couple of decades so what was stopping Cambridge from running his thesis through it? Or was that used only for upstart white students?

Posted by: Decaf at August 07, 2026 06:17 PM (ZNpJk)

278 He just cribs the interviews from the paper he's copying and claims he conducted the interviews himself!

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Has he used his claimed autism as the excuse why he couldn't conduct the interviews himself?

Posted by: Decaf at August 07, 2026 06:20 PM (ZNpJk)

279 We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Which means it is impossible, right? Right?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:58 PM (rbvCR)

They did do an experiment in the 50s by putting a bunch of gases- CO2, Methane, some others to make an atmosphere and some spark generators for energy and quickly got a nice mix of complex molecules used in the body in a pretty short time. Sort of life, of course, but these are the building blocks of simple lifeforms.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 07:28 PM (uhVAy)

280 But to be an atheist, you've arrived at the ultimate answer: you live in a universe devoid of purpose and you will one day simply cease to exist, like a burst bubble. I don't see how any atheists who are honest with themselves can then simply go about their day. Seems to me that 99.99% instead start grasping for some purpose that they deny exists.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 06:00 PM (XvL8K)

Most atheists know what god does not exist. That's why they won't shut up about it.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)

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Of Course: Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir," Which Was, Of Course, Ghostwritten by a White Woman;Comparing His Initial Proposal and the Book Itself, The Atlantic Finds More Cases of Fabulism and Lying

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Of Course: Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir," Which Was, Of Course, Ghostwritten by a White Woman;
Comparing His Initial Proposal and the Book Itself, The Atlantic Finds More Cases of Fabulism and Lying