Rando Calrissian

Skills over content was always a false promise. Without domain knowledge, all the skills in the world don’t help students.

Ed Tech generative AI hucksters are just doubling down on that failed model. After they’re done, students won’t have the skills or knowledge they need.

Conservative purview of government intervention:

“Don’t call us. We’ll call you.”
“When we call you, you better immediately respond.”
“If you don’t immediately respond, we’ll be devastated.”
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“Vote red! Get government out of our lives!”

I am SHOCKED Governor Abbott didn’t have razorblades lining the floodwaters.

4th of July parade. No irony detected.

Lovely

“Desperately wants to lead that walk, but can’t play a flute or lead.”

Tommy Tuberville is a walking ad hominem.

I use that fantastic headlining pol cartoon every year in class. As relevant today as ever with the rich, (sometimes) metaphorically well-fed white aristocrats gatekeeping the same hand that fed them. Even 7th graders get it.

I trust that DJT knows more than me about:

1) hookers
2) tanning sprays
3) grifting

That’s it.

a netflix ad shows a young man saying wake up every day thinking today can not be worse than yesterday ALT: a netflix ad shows a young man saying wake up every day thinking today can not be worse than yesterday

And I’m often wrong

This is clearly what he meant.

JD, I’m pretty sure nuclear programs don’t kill people. People kill people.

In a related story, I’m in public education so some segments of our populace may say I’m already institutionalized. So I got that going for me.

Political disgrace in Illinois is as assured as expressway construction.

I don’t get the NY fascination w Cuomo. As an Illinoisan if I was compelled to back a Chicago mayor race run by Blago, please institutionalize me.

I’d almost prefer dumb right now. Seems like a step up

To be fair, 200 hours consecutively on the interminable River Raid is also achievable. I’ll throw my hat in the ring with Pitfall, Ms PacMan and Gauntlet

As someone in the academic trenches so to speak, I think we’ve all been eyewitnesses to the delegitimization of social sciences over the last few decades. Particularly history and civics. The results are apparent.

Personally, I use Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as a reference to the suspension of habeas corpus in class all the time.

Who’s going to be the aging U.S. President in 20 years exiting Iran awkwardly after two decades of global chaos, trillions of wasted dollars and Trumps family pockets lined with endless currency as they host daytime idiot punditry?

It’s terrible, and what’s more, if it’s pointed out, suddenly accusations of the “grammar police” come out. What happened to taking a moment to not be careless? Another uphill battle with my students I suppose…

It’s a barleywine kind of evening.

Fortnight Fascist

Daily reminder on this particular day, Juneteenth, that our government and the white Christian patriarchy has a sordid history of invoking some mythical divine inequity. The Mudsill Theory:

Oof. Brutal.

Holy cow. What highway in this area is anyone doing 75 on…unless, wait…was he on the shoulder of the Eisenhower?

This is more like it…

Cause Saturday Night’s Marmite for Fighting. I’ll show myself out.

The message of the No Kings protest reverberates through this video. This is absolute insanity. We, who demand constitutionality, are ALL Brad Lander.

I’ll never forgive myself for reading his book.