Sue Hemberger

They are playing a long game — it’s Geriatric Duopoly.

Yes, but I’m always pleased to see that pastSue correctly anticipated futureSue’s needs/interests!

Photo of a Barbara Kruger installation at the MOCA Geffen in LA. The text (in all caps with white letters against a bright red background) poses the following questions: WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO wIS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?

Curation should prove interesting…

In other words, where does “common sense” come from?

Welcome to our world — now work with us to change it! Because it sucks for most people and there’s no reason it has to.

This was apparent to me in the late 1980s/early 90s and, quiet as it’s kept, lots of academics aren’t really interested in being life-long learners. They’d rather be deferred to as “learned.”

It’s more & different than that. The perspectives that a more diverse professoriate has brought to academia proved threatening to many senior folks (typically white/male/from higher SES backgrounds) at PWIs. New methods, topics, and grad students whose interests might require expertise they lack.

Same dynamic on bsky as other social media for me, though bsky may be more efficient/productive (18th c and early Am feel well-represented here).

This is an important point. For me, social media is more likely to influence my purchase of books that are kind of adjacent to my interests. Usually different times or places but potentially similar themes/phenomena. Stuff that wouldn’t hit my radar otherwise. I then vet through other means.

Never Let Me Go (Johnny Ace)

I remember, as a very junior poli science faculty member, watching CNN’s unrelenting coverage of the Waco siege and thinking hmm, 1st and 2nd amendments front and center yet the public law folks won’t have anything to say about this. How and why have we as a (sub)field rendered ourselves so useless?

Nah. For most people (vs historians or archivists), it won’t inspire confidence in a tour guide.

And wonder what terrible fate their parents are fighting so hard to spare them. (State college and renting rather than owning a house doesn’t occur to them as an answer, lol). And the kids’ baseline assumptions about future best case scenarios are already (realistically) bleaker than their parents’.

Is where and when this plays out most clearly. It also provides a context for them to evaluate how successfully they are parenting. My sense is that HS/college-aged kids are more aware of the shredded safety net than their parents are. Part of that is they sense their parents’ desperation 2/3
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Lots of upper middle class parents in the US think they got where they are through brains, education, and thinking ahead. They generally don’t have enough wealth or status to pass it on to the next generation so they are frantic to prevent their kids from being downwardly mobile. And school (1/2)

When I taught Intro to American Politics in 1990, I put the Kerry Report (along with EJ Epstein’s Agency of Fear) on the syllabus as a framework/context for thinking about executive power and the ways in which foreign and domestic politics interact.

Ask ‘em what the/an AI summary missed or got wrong?

And what have I got to lose? Probably no more than 2 hours and $100.

Say you’ve been cooking forever (50+ years). Does a basic knife skills class make sense? I’m wondering whether I’ve figured the basics out and/or whether my bad habits are so ingrained that I may be un(re)trainable. OTOH, as eyesight and dexterity decline, good technique seems even more important.

It’s seems bizarre to establish a ranking system that includes “genius” and then disallow words because they are obscure…

That’s so awesome! I love his work! Did you see his (joint) exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery (pre-COVID)?

Eisenhower as radical Marxist…

Have you tried Trader Joe’s chili lime seasoning on watermelon (same concept as tajin, though I like the TJ’s blend better)?

Cool — and thanks!

I used to read while I was waiting to pick up my kid from school and I can’t tell you how many other mommies (also waiting) would look at me, sigh, and try to start a conversation by saying “I wish *I* had time to read,” lol!

Maybe we just start answering “Because you’re an idiot and it would be a waste of my time.”

Madison Fellows is still around, I think. Worth checking out if you’re secondary school (American) history teacher.

Why not both? Increasingly stupid and more evil than you ever imagined. That’s where I’m at.

At least wrt multifamily buildings, what gets torn down is typically the cheapest housing in the most expensive/lucrative markets and what replaces it is smaller and more expensive units. Not a way to solve an affordable housing crisis.

The Ai Wei Wei retrospective at Seattle Art Museum (thru September 7) is really good. And (thus far) there are no plans for it to travel. So catch it if you can!