Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
one of the earliest lessons in politics I learned as a kid from my parents was to always vote for a tax increase, because you're trading a dollar amount so small you probably won't notice in order to fund something important that benefits everybody. I wish that was how Democrats messaged this stuff!
Frame #72500 from S06 -E13 - Sea Urchin - Battle to the Death-628912
This is why Brent Musburger molders in a plastic box in Vegas and talks about betting lines all day - it’s a public service.
It would be such an honor to be killed by Sensei Phil Collins
This run on one single side of an LP. The man was ruthlessly unstoppable.
I think there is something to explore that many nations at the WBC have come showing what they love about their country (dancing, celebration, tradition) to represent the people while the American team has shown up representing and only celebrating the military
For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.
$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year:
-1.4 million people on Medicaid
-19 million kids getting free school lunches
-1.4 million people getting affordable housing
-1.1 million hungry seniors fed
-0.8 million children given free child care
This is a Steely Dan song
Bodacious brothers such as your friend will never be welcome here, high in the scriptorium.
I want you toknow that proclamations like this come from the softest dude you will ever meet whose greatest challenge in life is waiting ten minutes in line at Merridee's
Because now I'm thinking about it, the top 5, in no order:
Golden Slumbers
Back Seat of My Car (Thrillington)
Sing the Changes (The Fireman)
Wanderlust
Beautiful Night
Nothing like Macca with a soaring melody and an overwrought arrangement.
Not kidding when I say this is among the top five most emotionally affecting musical works executed by Paul McCartney. The hubristic genius of concocting a fake impresario to perform an entire instrumental version of a solo LP most people didn't get. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdEc...
Photos of all the school children killed by a US strike in Minab, Ireland
The United States killed all these children last Saturday.
170 of them.
Every. Single. One.
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
My comps:
1. General American History
2. North American Religions
3. Race and Religion, I think?
I think it’s important that even if you don’t like a person, you should remember them for the things they did best, here is Lou Holtz making an intern cry
youtu.be/Iri0beuhlZ8?...
Bah gawd that's @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social's music.
I do find it somewhat entertaining when it turns out something from one of the Sparty outlets, or (DREAD) the Freep ends up being correct, and the board/mods have to pretend they didn't loudly cast doubt on it from the start.
Critical thinking and reading are not taught at UM, no.
She does a lot of her spots with the very limited print of the cover art for Silver Jews-American Water, and if that's not an instant sign of superior taste, I don't know what is.
$300 million mistake
That's the same cost as 25,000 Head Start slots
I don’t care what they say this is a good website
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
Be loud, work for change from within. That‘s the only way I could reckon it. I was told that my speech at my Eagle COH was too political. Didn’t see it that way in 2001, don’t see it that way now. They need to hear that inclusion is a value Scouting is hard-wired to embrace.
As someone who was finishing my Eagle right when the Dale case happened and was definitely (and vocally) not in step with the prevailing homophobia of the BSA at the time, this is a slap in the face. Back to the dark ages of hatred and right-wing paramilitarism as “values-based“ youth programming.
I really don’t know how else to put it: This is gutting. I always thought I’d find a way back to Scouting if the time came for our family, but not like this. I cannot imagine recommending anyone join an organization that would go this far to pacify the many sad paranoias of a power-hungry tyrant.
I’m an Eagle Scout and former adult leader who was proud of Scouting America for taking many strides to becoming more inclusive and not a right-wing paramilitary organization.
Today’s cowardly capitulation to Pete Hegseth feels like the end of Scoiting having a meaningful place in American life.
I love the confirmation that Ford too owned a Michigan Bad Call Brick, an essential item we all bought in the 90s.
Bad news day for this guy, who I’m sure has to be used to it by now.
