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It doesn’t mean a lot. Starmer was insecure enough to stop Burnham from standing as the Labor candidate. That doesn’t apply to Texas.

Yes, I remember that well. Thanks Michael!

2) Most are demoralized. Especially with a good financial retirement-incentive in place, I am lucky to have the resources to stop working this year. There are lots of things that I want to do with my life that will be better for my physical and mental health. I wish my wonderful colleagues well.

1) This is my last semester as full-time tenured faculty at Temple. Turning only 65 in May, I would have laughed at this idea 5 years ago, and I still love teaching, but the relentless budget-cutting is producing passively closed or closing programs, save for 3 in the social sciences.

Susan Herbst, the best dean I ever had, tried to build up humanities at Temple in part it was so cheap to do well. She lasted 2 years here. 20 years ago, downhill ever since.

I’m getting very impatient waiting for season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, writes this older guy who spent many hours in his youth watching Godzilla and friends. Then there was Ultraman…

I had been thinking that I hope Pete Gainsford weighs in on this topic

Will, you could write about slashing the humanities closer to home

Both, though we don’t have a system. We have anarchy.

I’m a bit ahead of you for that trajectory on this side of the Atlantic. Formal announcement soon. Stay tuned!

Try 3 months short of 65. I got a small snow blower, called an electric shovel. Enormous help.

This a.m. by far the most migrating geese I’ve ever seen and heard flying over Philadelphia. Due to melting of snow cover? Sensing the coming storm? Flying very fast, so they hopped on a good jet-stream? Reassuring, given reports of new bird flu wave. #birds

I remember when Jesse Jackson spoke at my high school in the late 1970s. He was so inspirational. I shook his hand afterwards, and, looking into his eyes, I could also see so much pain in them. A great, complicated, often frustrating human being. RIP.

Rubin’s belief in this stuff is about as genuine as his hair

Even for something inspired by Le Carre, the ending of The Night Manager was really dark and depressing. Other than that, Hugh Laurie is a truly kick-ass villain.

I’m really not happy about the reboot of Rockford Files, barring a resurrection of James Garner. Yet another failure of government regulation…

I enjoy fabricating and misattributing random quotes to Aristotle (especially one concerning baseball), Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde.

Best day of every year

This week’s opening rant on the Daily Show by @jonstewartdaily.bsky.social was the Sistine Chapel ceiling of opening rants. Thank you, Jon.

In the halftime show the string musicians are conducted by a real classical conductor Giancarlo Guerrero

Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap' The release of more than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender gives credence to claims made by senior security officials: that Epstein was working on behalf of Moscow.

Even the Daily Mail connects dots www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Real Catherine O’Hara fans know there was SCTV and then the other stuff. Just kidding. Sort of. 😉

When the temperature first plummeted a few weeks ago I thought God might be trying to send the US a message by turning the US into Greenland. Now I think it’s turning the US into Minnesota.

I love emojis

To my reading he misses the point a lot. There are podcasts devoted to this. I was in college with him and he often baffles me.

Joel, thanks much for all of this. I had been wondering whether Eos opening this book has something to with Odysseus being so prominent at this point in the narrative (books 9-10, before he’s knocked out of the action in 11).

This is hard to do in Pennsylvania, where both senators seem to have entered a witness protection program

If the KKK had had guns and officially worked for the government…

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.

RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab