Erin Grievances

Mind destroyingly stupid NYT headline: Trump echoes fdr and grant in calling for “unconditional surrender”

In a year of stupid headlines, what to even say, this has to be among the stupidest and frankly most offensive yet

It's very weird that it was easier for papers to tell this story when it was boat strikes than when it was a school full of little girls. It felt like some reporters went there and pushed on this issue and then when Hegseth made it through, they gave up and said "I guess we are okay with this"

What's making me lose my mind is that Hegseth made a career out of defending American soldiers who committed war crimes, now is openly ordering war crimes and bragging about it, yet our media does not have headlines screaming "Sec Def is Ordering War Crimes."

1/ Anyway, this reminds me of a story I read about James Mattis in Trump's first term.

During a meeting in the Situation Room, Trump angrily ordered the military to assassinate the entire government of Syria.

My sister and I watched this constantly as kids, probably one of our most quoted films. It's got a line for everything, especially "Turn the kitchen light off!"

That was my thought but also this feels like a moment for an even older/scarier actor too.

This feels like a moment where an older actor needs to take him aside and have a conversation with him.

There are more important films from that year but this is still the best one.

Is Hailstones & Halibut Bones still in print? I don't remember if the poems rhyme but I loved the pictures.

Can someone make me a tall glass of sleep for 24 hours straight

You could pick anyone off the street in the US and ask them what might be a consequence at home of starting a war in that part of the world and I would wager 100% of them would get it right. How did we find the only people who don’t understand it and let them run everything?

I was wondering this today, and Faine puts it in a much more sophisticated way, but what’s the term for the basic ability to imagine the consequences of actions? Like object permanence, but for blocks falling over.

IDK who wrote this ill advised POS article but they shouldn't get paid for it because WHAT THE ABSOLUTE EFF IS THIS !!!! I mean, EVANGELICALS ARE EVERYWHERE IN TRUMP WORLD

RAG was on mine too (not at the head, which is why it remained a manageable list of books)

We did teaching fields, not dissertation fields.

(Learning a lot about how other programs felt about comps from these posts)

1. US History
2. Comparative British/French/US Imperialism
3. American Religion

The Second Skeleton Museums construct knowledge by constructing objects—literally.

"I saw a specimen of science and the natural world, of course, but I also saw a beautiful object constructed, created, by people—by paleontologists, museum curators, engineers, and welders."

I'm just looking for one good man with a Visa.

“some noted they had lost fans and donors. There are some people who like Irish music but think ICE is just here to enforce the law. But Natalie O’Shea, executive director at Celtic Junction, told me, “To believe in laws over belief in people is to be colonized.””

I mean, I guess Wyden told us what he thinks.

"Gracious God! a proposition to introduce six new slave States, bears no relation to the subject of slavery? What on earth does O'Sullivan mean?" CS to JMSI, 3/5/1844, LCS p 202

It's one of the little pleasures of this place to get in on the ground floor of a truly amazing post.

This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem

I just keep thinking of that line from M*A*S*H where Klinger says “ if it’s a police action, why didn’t they send the cops?”

For no identifiable reason.

reading this, both the accounting of the harassment and the institution’s response, reminds me of Kate Manne‘s point of this current backlash: "remove women as sources of competition and judgement"

Oh, I just spent a lot of time on her Instagram as results of this.

This does feel very different from the beginnings of the Bush-era wars, but if you're going to be this bold, you could also mention that it's not good to kill a bunch of Iranian civilians either. There are many reasons a war can be unjust and I think we need to hear that one too.

It provides a luxurious writing experience.

Government by the kind of people who think "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" is an inspirational list of goals for the office whiteboard.