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Monthly Archives: July 2025
Campus Life at
Quote, Unquote
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
~ Ernest Hemingway
David Lammy was born
on this day in 1972
David Lammy — the British politician and lawyer who has served as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2024 — was born on this day — July 19, 1972 — in Tottenham, London.
He is a graduate of the SOAS University of London, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws, and Harvard Law School, where he earned a Master of Laws.
Prior to his appointment as Foreign Secretary, Lammy has represented the constituency of Tottenham as a Member of Parliament since 2000. He held several ministerial roles under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and has been a prominent voice on issues of institutional reform in the UK.
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Campus Life at
Kent State University
Comedy Break
Randy Discovers Japanese Toilets – South Park
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Quote, Unquote
Deceit and duplicity aren’t bugs in Steve Bannon’s matrix; they’re part of the operating system.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Quote, Unquote
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
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Campus Life at the
University of Missouri – Columbia
Quote, Unquote
He inherited from his mother’s stories the fundamental style he used, unaltered, in his own stories: namely, the assumption that fact may not be truth, and truth may not be factual.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Sahra Wagenknecht was born
on this day in 1969
Sahra Wagenknecht — the German politician, economist, and author who founded the party Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) — was born on this day — July 16, 1969 — in Jena, East Germany.
She is a graduate of the University of Groningen, where she earned a Master of Arts in Philosophy and Modern German Literature, and Chemnitz University of Technology (TU Chemnitz), where she earned a PhD in Microeconomics.
Wagenknecht was a long-time leading figure in the party Die Linke (The Left) before breaking away in 2024 to establish her own political alliance. Known for her focus on economic populism and social conservatism, she has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 and previously served as a member of the European Parliament. She has written extensively on Marxist theory and the history of economic thought.
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