Is there anyone in the Trump administration who is competent to say, or has any idea, whether there is anything academically wrong with the Department? Disagreements with faculty members' politics don't count.
No, that has to wait until 2028. It's the pattern. Republicans get into office by yelling that government is f****d up, spend their time proving it, and leaving the Democrats with an agenda hobbled by the need to make massive repairs.
It does if you think there is a "first speaker" privilege. Having grown up in a place where my views were not popular, I learned early on that free speech is a two-way street, and that its exercise takes a certain genital endowment. Spare me the lament of bubble-wrapped sophomores who claim to feel inhibited in expressing thoughts they think they think and might even believe they stand for.
What's going on now is a different thing, though it has been done before, during WWI and its aftermath, and during the height of the Cold War. Because, all too often, it works.
You didn't answer my first question, so I'm not surprised that you didn't answer the second. But why, after all this time, would you think I'm pretending about not understanding you? It's the normal state of affairs around here.
On “Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came For”
Is there anyone in the Trump administration who is competent to say, or has any idea, whether there is anything academically wrong with the Department? Disagreements with faculty members' politics don't count.
On “Weekend Plans Post: Pantherine Vandals”
If there were money in it, they'd be doing it.
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25”
Indeed.
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No, that has to wait until 2028. It's the pattern. Republicans get into office by yelling that government is f****d up, spend their time proving it, and leaving the Democrats with an agenda hobbled by the need to make massive repairs.
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A woman upbraided Samuel Johnson for putting improper words in his dictionary. He replied: "Madame, you have been looking for them."
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You must be new around here.
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Why is Greenland any different from anywhere else?
On “Signal Controversy Over Houthi Strikes Deepens”
What will we get first, SNL or the real Hillary?
On “Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectations”
I'm not grading your papers, you are. What that says about either of us, I leave to the reader.
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That would make school a lot easier.
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Grading your own papers?
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25”
As the supreme deity of the Zoroastrians, he's a good bit more than "a pretty wise guy." If you believe in him at all.
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25”
We figured then. and know now, that Zuckerberg was classified in the wrong phylum. He does not belong among the chordates.
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It does if you think there is a "first speaker" privilege. Having grown up in a place where my views were not popular, I learned early on that free speech is a two-way street, and that its exercise takes a certain genital endowment. Spare me the lament of bubble-wrapped sophomores who claim to feel inhibited in expressing thoughts they think they think and might even believe they stand for.
What's going on now is a different thing, though it has been done before, during WWI and its aftermath, and during the height of the Cold War. Because, all too often, it works.
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Government agencies formed to do specific tasks should stay in their lane.
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That's how it's done.
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The stuff people have been talking about since, oh, 2020.
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Where, and how long ago, had we heard all this before?
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"Like"?
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"Shut down" is doing a lot of work here. Especially for something that has been out in public and widely discussed for years.
On “A Dark Age”
You didn't answer my first question, so I'm not surprised that you didn't answer the second. But why, after all this time, would you think I'm pretending about not understanding you? It's the normal state of affairs around here.
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"Better" for what?
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I don't get a vote on who my neighbors are, and they don't get a vote on me. Is it different where you live?
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Well, yes. But it works. And that's good enough for far too many people.
On “On Jethro Tull”
Really don't mind if I sit this one out.
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