Ian Walling

But now that we are in the full fury of American media prurience and self-righteousness, I am going to risk my neck on a slightly contrarian view. Reporters have all sorts of compromising relationships with sources. The most compromising of all, and the most common, is a reporter’s fealty to someone who gives them information. That’s the real coin of this realm. Sex barely rates.

ben smith’s take from last year when the nuzzi/rfk story first broke aged like cheese on a dashboard

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what the fuck are we DOING here

guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Worst night for Virginia Republicans since 1860.

"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."

The attack on core departments, tenured, and tenure track faculty is now accelerating in blue states, building upon the assault on NTT colleagues. Far from resisting Trump’s assault on higher ed, University admins in Democratic run states are spraying fuel on the fire to make it burn faster.

ozzy osbourne dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)"
hulk hogan dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"

THE HORSES HAVE DISCOVERED BLACK METAL

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

In moments of gravity like this, I'm reminded of Byron on another famed diplomat:

"Posterity will ne’er survey
a Nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, and piss!"

It’s November, which means we’re coming up on three years since this quote. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...

I'll be heading to WPSA, so if you are going and want to meet up, let me know!

i feel like i’m going completely insane otherwise and then i log on and people are just posting like “will the gop mobilize behind Chip Hornk (R-CO)?” i simply don’t know. i don’t know. i don’t know

Moby Dick is just sentences like this, piled up to the length of a book, and it rocks.

I have broken many a therapist with descriptions of the political theory job market.

Ngl, this was a weird week to be teaching Gandhi.

In Noah Pinion's attic hangs a take that just keeps getting smarter and smarter

It's incredibly heartening when students come up to you after class to ask what else you'll be teaching next semester.

C: So this function your talking about, that's, what in Greek, it's ergo?
Me: Ergon, Mister Columbo. With an n.
C: Aaaaaah, like ergonomic! You know my wife, she's been after me to get one of those, what do you call it, ergonomic chairs. Is that what Aristotle was after?
Me: Hardly Mister Columbo.