Ken Mayer

Which doesn’t really narrow it down at all.

How do wombats poop cubes? Scientists get to the bottom of the mystery Distinctive intestines mold feces into sharp-cornered poop

Wombats shit cubes:

www.science.org/content/arti...

I wondered whether we should make a copy and send it to him.

We concluded that we had no choice but to put it back.

🤷‍♂️

John Witte and I found his file in 1989, which was in the storage basement of North Hall.

I occasionally have a dream in which I am walking into a 400-student lecture at the beginning of the semester. I have done nothing to prepare, there's no syllabus, and I don't even know the name of the course.

I'm serious. You could call it "BOO: Terrifying Academic Short Stories"

I would buy a book that had all of these.

Only works if you cite UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute.

It was a moment of some satisfaction when Mearsheimer called me a chickenshit after I was critical of a talk he gave to undergraduates here about 20 years ago (where, among other things, he said Saddam Hussein was "a piker" compared to LBJ).

I feel your pain.

Spelling Bee: obscure 18th French term for decorative elements, guilloché? Of course. Don't be obtuse (also permitted).

Also Spelling Bee: you want that common word to count? or that word that 250 years ago was trademarked but has since become a standard word? LOL

Reviewer two has thoughts.

Chotiner wants to talk.

HOORAY KEITH! So great to see him again!

Now I've got the whole movie running in my head. Which is fine with me.

Congratulations! That's quite a group.

100% that the headline writers thought they were being hilarious, like they were sitting around the writers' room for 30 Rock.

Washington, DC, superlawyer Bob Barnett dead at 79 | CNN Politics Robert B. Barnett, a Washington, DC, lawyer and dealmaker who represented some of the most notable American political figures over the last half century, has died. He was 79.

Sad news. They buried the lede: "A proud son of the Midwest, Barnett was born in Illinois and attended the University of Wisconsin...He was married to Braver for 53 years."

Bob & Rita have been huge supporters of UW Political Science for many years. True mensches. May his memory be a blessing.

Maybe this?

"that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants." [Hamilton, #1]

*Searches the Federalist Papers for mentions of "border control" and "support for law enforcement"*

Oh no. What terrible news.

A professor who was actually canceled - fired - and crickets from the hysterical “anti-cancel culture” crowd.

It's both ominous and darkly hilarious that A&M is defending the firing by insisting that the regents "will not tolerate actions that damage the reputation of our institutions."

Hitler: Operation Sea Lion.

Churchill: "we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

NYT: Settlement Talks Stall between Churchill and Hitler

So, encouraging students to rely on a hugely expensive, excessively complex, error-prone intellectual-property-stealing plagiarism-machine technology to, um, let's see. . .

take notes

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ indeed.

We went from an annual average of 10.433 deaths to 31, a 99.97% reduction. And dipshits are going to throw this away.

Just unfathomably stupid.

I once completed a meeting before everyone arrived.

There was great rejoicing.

This too. Always hammering shaken martinis.