Felonious Monk

What it's like being a political communication professor right now Misgivings, Grievances, and Thanks as I look ahead to my fifteenth year.

Academia has been described as 'the only profession where people are paid to think slowly'... It is such a tremendous 🎁. It is even moreso [bc] jobs like mine have become vanishingly rare. My peers + I didn’t exactly pull up the ladder behind us... It’s more like we ran across a crumbling bridge"

When I first arrived in Chicago to be a full-time critic in '99, I thought maybe one day I'd be fortunate enough to get a post at the Tribune and ride it into the sunset. Never imagined that the job *itself* would disappear. Michael deserves better. And we, as readers and film lovers, do too.

unpopular, maybe, correct, yes

Just leave the hammers at home, okay

I’m just waiting for Macron to slip a precautionary nuke to Zelinsky on the side.

imagine, IMAGINE this in Britain, it'd be like those Purge movies

Stone doorway surround that bulges as if being pressed down upon. The top of the doorway features a decorative carving of a woman’s face with flowing hair surrounded by flowers.

Probably a top ten Chicago doorway and the rare American Art Nouveau design: 2934-2936 W. Logan Boulevard (1909) by Frederick Schock.

real exercise in both misleading headlining and 'nobody bothered to read the article' here

she used chatgpt to generate the responses for the part of the novel *where a character talks to chatgpt.*

the coffee table's next - no way that thing stays unadorned past Christmas

Why would you think that? Aside from the fact that I live in California, which makes it hard to get most places without a car

temu empire shit

Throne room in the Kremlin

They keep a throne handy

this is a razor-sharp observation

actual lol

Oh, you know the ones

as a leftist, leftists need to be better at realizing that there are basically two groups of "liberals", one that means it and one that doesn't, and the group that means it is what you encounter on here while the one that doesn't holds most of the "liberal" elected offices and media sinecures

Liberals Who Mean It also account for a much larger share of Democratic *voters* than Democratic electeds, strategists, and pundits

He's absolutely going for it, they're already rolling out a campaign for CA voters: Lend us the power to save the Republic and we'll do some damage to their Confederate Governor on the way (it's a good pitch.)

The closer is that the maps automatically revert after 18 mos. Emergency dick punch only.

political malpractice

This was a righteous showdown waiting to happen and they let it slip away. It's become one anyone, only now they look like cowards who abandoned their one (1) courageous colleague. They should all be here, now, in front of the cameras, lawyers by their sides, gunning for G.A.

They signed the bullshit paper...gave away their leverage for nothing...then abandoned their one (1) colleague who stood her ground?

What are they doing now? Watching this on TV at home after dinner with the family?

I honestly don't know what's worse.

every word

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On tour this fall to Madison, Pittsburgh, Boston, Seattle, Austin, Chico, and Berkeley.

No but seriously, where is the Fire Marshall

I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.

Newsom was not wrong to go with Wake Up

Kremlin interior with opulent gold wall and

White House interior with chintzy faux-gold

“Mom, can we buy a dictator’s palace?”

“We have a dictator’s palace at home.”

The dictator’s palace at home:

this was a criminally underrated skeet, deserved 10x the likes

Call the Fire Marshall and the FBI, in that order

The reason you don’t make them stand out is because that makes it easier for reckless drivers to avoid getting caught.

And yes, you do need to catch them before you can take them off the road.

You don’t need a Ph.D to understand how this works.