Craig Teague

Excellent!

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

Oh that's excellent.

A worldview predicated on the idea of success being a zero-sum game. No concept of mutual success being, you know, good for society.

I’m Abraham Lincoln and I Beg of You, Please Commemorate My Birthday with Mattress Sales Dear citizens, I know that I am not well. Amid this evening at Ford’s Theatre, my body has borne within it an abominable manifestation of political...

"As the light departs my corporeal form, yearning to move on to destinations unknown, I have but one final request. I beg of you, please commemorate my birthday with mattress sales."

Trump's tariffs cost American households $1,000 last year: Research group President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.

This is a tax on you.

You paid $1,000 more in a tax because of Trump.

For no reason at all, indeed.

Could be either! Or a suggested word from word processor memory or AI.

Ha!

Grading lab reports. One student: "...our goal was to find the energy gap between FOMO and LUMO."

Close! Just missing out, so to speak, on one acronym. #chemsky #chemchat

Wow - I'd not seen that before. Amazing!

Watergate, but if someone was killed.

It's a really good phrase...captures a lot in a few words.

Bingo. I'll never forget the first week of college in Calc I - no opportunity to take calc in HS - and the formal definition of a limit "for every epsilon there is a delta such that..." Man, I learned how to study real quick.

I keep coming back to this.

Mills recognized that as the power elite becomes increasingly degenerate, it is increasingly difficult for their intellectual acolytes to formulate reasonable ideological justifications for their corrupt and irresponsible actions. In these circumstances, the power elite resorts to intellectual repression against those who call attention to their declining political capacities; that is, the intelligentsia who work in universities, museums, the arts, scientific institutes, entertainment, and the mass media.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago.

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Percentages are hard, Philip.

Bright orange sunset under low clouds. Small pond and a few trees in the foreground, house to the right, with pond and windows reflecting the sunset. Farmstead and farm land on the horizon.

Great sunset tonight. This was a little past the best color. #iowa

The book "Engaging Students in Physical Chemistry, Volume 2" edited by Gardner, Stokes, Ringer McDonald, Teague (that's me!), and Thrall.

Arrived yesterday! #chemsky #chemchat

For real. I feel this.

A tree cut down and felled next to its fellow trees but this tree's rings have an oddity to them and the shape and texture and color it makes it look like a fish drawing

Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died

So, remember that Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire that told priests to get their wills in order because “we are entering a new era of martyrdom"?

I ran across historical precedent for that today.

It's from a radio transcript @rns.org produced about a Lutheran bishop in Denmark…

…in 1943.

Curled-up cat on a chair. White paws, gray and black stripes.

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.

I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

This is all pretense. They know they're going to lose big in November. So, they're preemptively establishing (false) claims and manufacturing (false) evidence. Which they'll use to justify (illegally) invalidating state election results and refusing to give up power.

Important observation.

This is a great conference! #chemsky #chemchat

Caucused tonight. Good people who care about making their community better.

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

Too much emphasis on "the deal," not enough emphasis on, you know, the law and stuff.