Chris Sardo

Can't take a penalty there

Got away with too many men, and then give a gift of a double minor.

When you wake up
in the morning
and it’s quarter to 5 🌟
and you just can’t wait
to come alive..

You watch the game❗️
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I meant more that 50 years ago isn't that long ago when it comes to literary and intellectual production.

ugh, obviously Wright not Right.

No "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," no "Road to Serfdom," no Steinbeck or Orwell, no Baldwin or Richard Right, Rawls' Political Liberalism can stay, but his "A Theory of Justice" is out.

I'm literally in the middle of teaching elections and campaigns right now, so yes, it's going in for Tuesday.

"As educators, we are duty bound to defend — and advance — human intelligence. To do that, we first need to recognize that it is under attack. Science fiction has long depicted a future in which artificial intelligence becomes so strong, it overpowers humanity. In fact, the battle between bots and brains has already begun, and educators can see how it might end. Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education."

The first paragraph alone is a banger - this should be what every person in education shoul dbe shouting from the rooftops, rather than "let's find ways to encourage hybrid AI writing" or "let's teach AI responsibility" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

I think this is right, and the fact that he doesn't really seem to stand for anything in particular beyond himself. I want politicians to bend to public opinion to some extent, but I also want politicians to stand for something and then get voted up or down on it.

From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis Against the gamblification of the world.

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.

It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.

The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0

www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

Was teaching gerrymandering in class today, and talking about "packing" and "cracking" which led to sniggers. Apparently "cracking" is youth slang for sex, so FYI for everyone teaching US Government.

My high schoolers have more sophisticated accounts of what makes something political than the Post.

This actually is a real question though for interpretation and implementation of the Clean Water Act. There's case law (Sackett v EPA) and everything. I agree with your broader point but this one actually could be a thing that has real impacts.

People in 2016, were like "why is Kid Rock so pro Trump" and I'm just sitting here with my dad's Lynyrd Skynyrd cds rolling my eyes...

This 20+ year long Kid Rock arc from rap nu-metal to the "epitome of Americana" (which goes back to him being featured on a rework of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Gimme Back My Bullets" on the latter's 2003 album Viscous Cycle) reflects broader epochal changes in American culture.
In this essay, I will...

A 5 year old born in the US doesn't "deserve" their US citizenship anymore than a 5 year old born in another country.
But every child deserves, by virtue of their humanity, the opportunity to live a flourishing and meaningful life.

I just heard the most dystopian ad for Tik Tok: "Don't have time to watch a whole show? Tik Tok offers short shows that are easy to follow and hard to stop." We can't even get people to pay attention to a sit com let alone read a book.

His heart is in Ohio.

Super bummed to see that the @clppng.bsky.social show at in Santa Ana next week has been postponed till August.

One of the survey’s big sticking points emerged around self-identified Zionists. Only 37% of Jews surveyed said they identified as Zionist, while 7% labeled themselves anti-Zionist and another 8% said they were non-Zionist. Another 18% said they weren’t sure, while 30% said none of the labels described them. At the same time, 88% of surveyed Jews believed that “Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish, Democratic state” — traditionally one of the most historically accepted definitions of Zionism. Seven percent of Jews disagreed with that sentiment, equal to the number who consider themselves anti-Zionist.

I agree with your general point, but I think the poll actually reveals that the word "zionist" is itself a contested concept, because when you ask other questions, you get very different results in the same poll:

I love that Borges story.

Adding to my reading list this afternoon

Or even if we're allowed to, we don't because we look at our students' schedules and see 4, 5, even 6 AP classes and know that it is impossible to assign longer works of literature or scholarship and expect them to still be kids. Colleges can't incentivize min-maxing classes if they want depth
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If anything the past few years has basically left me with an innate distrust of anything published in a law review.

So we have a Bush appointed, Scalia mentored district judge stating in a court order that ICE has violated nearly 100 since January 1 - how is a "code of conduct" supposed to help rein in an agency that has shown no interest in following rules?

I really liked Aranofsky's work, now I feel like I need to destroy my copy of Requiem for a Dream

interesting. When I went to WM as an undergrad one of my professors mentioned that his kid could have gone there for free but didn't want to go there.

W&M is public...

This is exactly why the Senate Dem reform package is entirely inadequate - if ICE is routinely flouting court orders in the status quo, simply adding additional legal requirements will do nothing to curb abuses. The only solution is at bare minimum a radical reduction of funding, if not abolition

I'm not in academia anymore, so I haven't kept up with everything, but I've basically decided I'm going to teach actual political science findings, regardless of what the college board says.