Patrick Fessenbecker

Whereas personally, I am here and will remain here, they'll have to kill me before I give this up.
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it is profoundly clear that video games form the primary cultural education of our elite class, and yet they're also engaging these texts in incomplete and incoherent ways. Seems like something worth studying!

Some critic writing a history of American culture a century from now. "The question, it turned out, wasn't whether studying video games was important. Rather, it was whether studying anything else was."

I gotta say, clips like this are why it's really hard for me to join in anytime this website decides it hates Ezra. That pause after the first quote from the constitution hits *hard.*

wait can or cannot, lol.

The best name to score 70 though

doing this without attaching it to a war powers vote is political malpractice

Ahem.

This isn't pretentious over 50 white guy behavior. This is just dad behavior. When you hit a certain age you're given a specific war or military system that becomes your special interest

I have stuff coming out on this tomorrow, but I would be very unsurprised to see a Chinese diplomatic role here; they have credibility with Iran, leverage with Trump, and they very much want the Strait reopened.

It turns out the real nuclear deterrent was the minor hiccups in tanker traffic we made along the way.

To give you a sense of the casuistry I went through here, my conviction for awhile was that you had a moral Obligation to check out with a cashier if one was available, and then I had to puzzle over how long a line was reasonable.

Yet another reason why Costco is the last best hope of American capitalism: they're rigorous both in monitoring the self check out *and* in helping you do it/getting everything you need.

I had a phase where I thought about this a lot, and I do think the store offloading labor onto the customer frees the customer of some of the relevant moral obligations. If you can't be bothered to pay a cashier, I'm not sure I have a duty to be scrupulous about your financial interests.

Which—and this is *exactly* why I find it so infuriating—is something that lots of and lots of people have tried to offer. I teach Middlemarch and Robert Elsmere! there's a whole history of people finding morality and meaning in life after God!

every time I reread about the way exvangelicals redefined a unrelated philosophical term to describe their loss of faith instead of borrowing any of the thousands of concepts from the last two hundred years of atheism, I'm struck again that they haven't given up on being saved.

Seems pretty obvious why he'd do something so ridiculously polarizing, his name isn't Jared Centris

unrelated but I would absolutely go to a great tree museum. Imagine what you would learn!

Also a lot scholarship pretends to interpret the cactus but is in fact guarding the nest

a lot of critical methodologies build nests in cacti and make it seem like a claim about the cacti.

Literary critics anytime you claim a paraphrase of a novel can be better than the novel

Get ready for tactical windmills, based EVs, and Politically Incorrect Solar Panels (oh Sorry, are they PISPing on you, libruls?)

it is going to be funny when we get the Green New Deal out of this, though

The OP in such a conversation is implying—sometimes consciously—this is likeable, and the critical reply guy is denying that to highlight the OP‘s idiosyncrasy

aesthetic discourse in our degraded age is incapable of distinguishing between judgments of quality and judgments of preference, so frequently they substitute for each other

Happy international worker day

May 1.

See the face of a friend in every other worker, and war becomes impossible.

pour one out for the Ore Dock in question

Broke: lol Obama was so unserious his foreign policy guy had a masters in creative writing

Woke: creative writing MFAs are the pipeline we need to finally build a sane American foreign policy

The Ashland OreDockers would like a word

Hyperlocalized thermostats. Every body part on every person in its area is exactly the right temperature.