Andrew Tobolowsky

I wish higher ed in the US had a media outlet willing to stick up for it, but even the Chronicle seems to hate everyone who works in universities except the upper admin/trustees.

Merwin

Yeats

This is probably my Rilke one

I've been reading Sharon Olds's Stag's Leap and hoo boy

This from e e

This from T.S. Eliot

A more personal answer for me is this from the Irish poet Thomas Kinsella, on whom I once write an M. Phil thesis

I’m exploring the conceptual space of washing dishes

Rural Meyer's face has a pleasing symmetry, very earthy

I still think she is

It’s worth saying out loud that while every pundit can do a fast five on how the Dems need to get less woke in their sleep, the position that it would help the GOP with minorities to be less racist and violently xenophobic is comparatively underrepresented

i don't want to win a unifying 70-30.

i want to win 51-49 based on promises of vengeance.

This is from Letters to a Middle Aged Poet, you wouldn’t know it, I stole it

My wife sent me this, by Rilke, the other day

I’m back baby

From ACTUAL Dallas even, not Richardson or Plano or Garland or McKinney or

If any op ed writers are looking

I could say it, for a little bit of cash

People often say Dylan Thomas’s reference to the dingle starry is a prophecy of the coming of Ringo Starr

To add on to this, laws work mostly as a set of norms people are afraid to trespass against. But, they only actually work when they’re tested if they can be enforced and the combination of broad presidential immunity, an enabling congress, and pardon powers means they don’t exist

Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

Physically, the Time Warp is a perfectly acted musical number

I liked American Pastoral!

I’m excited! I’m sure we’ll lose but it’ll be good for Coop (and Nembhard?)

Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

Day to day? I think?